Exploring Northampton Series: Parsons Brook Greenway
A Walking Tour with Co-director and Naturalist Laurie Sanders
Pre-registration is required. | Limit: 15 participants. | Sliding scale admission: $15-$25 per person.
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During the last twenty years, the City of Northampton has protected more than 100 acres in the Parsons Brook Greenway. This landscape is underlain by outwash plains that were deposited 16,000-13,000 years ago, when braided glacial streams, choked with sands and sediments, flowed into Glacial Lake Hitchcock. Today, this area includes a mix of habitats, nearly all of which have been highly manipulated by people during the last fifty years.
Join co-director and naturalist Laurie Sanders on a two-hour loop in a portion of the conservation area, through abandoned gravel pits and oak and pine woods, past ponds and marshes, and beside a stretch of Parsons Brook that reveals exposures of 200-million year old sandstone. |
Important: You must be able to walk for two miles and over uneven ground. We will be walking on and off-trail.