Property Description	695 acres | Established 1984
Noanet Woodlands features many miles of shady trails and woods roads for walking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and horseback riding. A hike up Noanet Peak leads to a view of Boston's skyline above the forest canopy. The Reservation is named after a chief of the Natick Indians, who camped, fished, and hunted along Noanet Brook. During settlement, Noanet Woodlands was cleared for timber, firewood, and a few small homesteads. In the early nineteenth century, Samuel Fisher, Jr. used Noanet Brook to operate a sawmill, producing boards, planks, and joists for the construction of buildings in burgeoning Dedham. Fisher's business boomed throughout the 1820s and 1830s. Later, the Dover Union Iron Company built a large rolling and slitting mill that made barrel hoops, wheel rims, nail plates, and nail rods from forged iron. Today the mill's twenty-four-foot-high dam and twenty-foot-deep wheel pit are preserved, but visitors will have to imagine the towering thirty-six-foot overshot wheel that powered the mill. In 1923, Miss Amelia Peabody purchased Mill Farm on Dedham Street. Over the next sixty-one years, she acquired thirty additional parcels of land stretching south to Powisset Farm. Her diverse interests included outdoor recreation, sustainable agriculture, architectural experimentation, and land conservation, all of which shaped the landscape today.
Trails
17 miles of trails. Moderate hiking, strenuous in places.
Literature
Printed trail maps are distributed free from the ranger station and bulletin board in the Caryl Park parking area. Please understand that supplies periodically run out. You may also download trail maps from this web site or mail order trail maps in advance of your visit.
Property Acquisition History
Original acreage a bequest, with endowment, of Amelia Peabody in 1984. Added to previous gifts of Mrs. Henry B. Cabot in 1975 and Henry B. Cabot, Jr. in 1979. Additional land given by Brookfield Estates in 1996.

E-mail:
seregion@ttor.org

When to Visit:
Year-round, daily, sunrise to sunset. Allow a minimum of 2 hours.

Admission Fees & Permits:
Free admission. On-site donation welcome from nonmembers. Free annual mountain bike permit required. Permits may be obtained at The Trustees' ranger station in the Caryl Park parking area or by calling 781.784.0567.

Regulations / Advisories:

How to Get There:
From Dover Center, take Dedham St. east 0.6 mi. to Caryl Park entrance and parking (40 cars) on right. Caryl Park provides parking (40 cars) for visitors to Noanet Woodlands.

Road Map:

To Caryl Park entrance

Noanet Woodlands Trail Map (PDF 810K)

Powisset Farm Management Plan 2005 (6.5MB)

Noanet Woodlands Management Plan 2007 (8.4MB)