Upper Spencer Brook Valley

Our Upper Spencer Brook property is an assemblage of seven parcels acquired over a 25-year span. The terrain rises from marshes and streams meandering toward Spencer Brook to upland pastures and bold ledge outcroppings creating a ravine unusual to Concord.

The terrain rises from marshes and streams meandering toward Spencer Brook to upland pastures and bold ledge outcroppings creating a ravine unusual in Concord. Many stone walls indicate both old property lines and former pasture fields, since grown over into woods. Look for the several giant oaks whose spreading limbs tell of their earlier life in open pastures. A carpet of lowbush blueberry and Canadian mayflower rises and falls with the contours, yielding to large boulders and exposed ledge. A pair of parallel walls tells of a cattle run used to guide livestock from the pasture off Pope Road down to water in the ravine.

Some 50 acres in the northern portion of this area are shown on the map as being under conservation restriction. This is private land and visitors are asked to remain on the trails shown on the map. The sweeping open fields are harvested for their hay.

This area of the Spencer Brook Valley has been protected thanks to the forethought and generosity of owners, neighbors and members.