Trail Maps
Some of Falmouth’s conservation areas, especially those with easy access and well-established trails, are widely used and appreciated by the public. Beebe Woods, Peterson Farm, Sea Farms Marsh and the state Crane Wildlife Management Area are well known. However, the town has numerous other parcels of open space — hidden treasures of woods, pond front and marsh that are often used by residents in the immediate neighborhood but not known by the community at large.
While some environmentally fragile areas are not suitable for trails, The 300 Committee believes that public access to conservation land is important. Personal knowledge of the land is the best way to foster appreciation of our natural places. Moreover, the requests for trail maps The 300 Committee regularly receives from residents and visitors indicate a strong interest in the outdoors as recreation.
The 300 Committee has three maps available in the office at 157 Locust Street, at the parking lot of the Shining Sea Bikeway. The townwide map of all conservation and recreation land in Falmouth is a great overview and a useful resource, but does not show trails. The Beebe Woods/Peterson Farm map and the Moraine Trail map indicate trails and parking and include natural history information about these specific areas. If you would like any of these maps, come by the office during weekday working hours. (You may want to call ahead (508) 540-0876 just to make sure a staff member will be here when you arrive.)
Several new trail maps can be downloaded from this website in PDF format and printed. (To access trail maps, click on list at right.) Beth Schwarzman, geologist, naturalist, T3C board member and author of The Nature of Cape Cod, has drawn the maps in a simple 8½ x 11 format for easy use. Available in early 2007 are maps of the Donald Whelden Preserve, Sea Farms Marsh, Mares Pond Reservation, Headwaters of the Coonamessett River, Margaret Doutt Moonakis River Preserve, Long Pond, Collins Woodlot and Firetower Road Area, Mock Moraine Trails, and one map showing the trails at Cardoza Farm, Bourne Farm and Wing Pond.
