National Trail Day Hike
June 3rd, 2012
12Noon - 3pm
Rain or Shine
“America’s Largest TRAILgating Party”
Come & Hike With Us Along the Nashua River!
An easy route through a native floodplain forest containing several wildlife habitats and scenic vistas, across Fall Brook to Johnny Ro Veterans Park & back.
About 4 miles in total
Free!
Wear proper hiking gear; take water, lunch/snack, insect repellent, camera and binoculars (if you have them).
Meet behind the Babe Ruth Field Parking Lot at 12 noon (old) Lancaster Street, Leominster, MA 01453.
Hike will start & end at the trailhead parking lot.
For Info Contact:
Art O'Leary
978-537-2642
oleary5150@comcast.net
Featured Photograph
The photograph below is one of the many beautiful pictures taken throughout the Leominster Trails System. Click on the photograph to see more of what is available while hiking in Leominster ...
Leominster Native, Hiking Expert, and Author
Michael Lanza
has a newly published book
Before They're Gone—A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks
from Beacon Press
Watch a trailer on 
YouTube
A beautiful book that weaves a great story of parenting, hiking in America's National Parks, and the growing concerns of a climate change.
Buy the book at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
-- Michael Lanza:
Living across the country in Boise, Idaho, can sometimes feel very far from my hometown. But when I visit my parents and siblings in Leominster every year, see old friends and get out again for a hike or run on the wonderful trails that the Leominster Trail Stewards have built and maintain, I feel very connected to the town where I grew up. I started hiking in New England and enjoy every opportunity to get out again on the trails here.
In my new book, Before They're Gone—A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, from Beacon Press, I write about spending a year embarking on wilderness adventures with my wife, Penny, our nine-year-old son, Nate, and our seven-year-old daughter, Alex, in national parks that, because of climate change,are likely to be very different places by the time my kids are my age.
Within often-humorous travel narratives about our backpacking, sea kayaking, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, and canoeing trips in ten parks, I weave the science story about how the warming climate is singularly affecting each park. Based on exhaustive reading of scientific literature and interviews with leading researchers, that more-serious side of my book goes beyond the usual tales of melting glaciers and rising seas to examine the complex interactions of climate, the physical environment, and native flora and fauna. I also contemplate what these changes will mean to future visitors—such as my grown kids, should they someday repeat our adventures.
Most of all, it is a book about a family's special experiences in these magnificent places, and how we shared and were affected by them. I hope it helps inspire others to visit our national parks.
You can read more about the book, an excerpt, and reviews, and find links to where to buy the book at my website TheBigOutside