Charlton

We keep finding new places to go on our weekend hikes; today we decided to explore a US Army Corps of Engineers property I’ve driven by a few times called Buffumville Lake. The lake there is part of a flood control dam project, and the area is named after a mill owner named Buffum from the 19th century. After checking the trail map and based on the time we had, we decided to take the South Loop, which goes around the southern area of the lake, closely paralleling the lake shore. The map listed it as 4 miles, but our GPS readings came in at 5. We also learned from Facebook that the lake was currently a few feet low in an attempt to kill off some invasive aquatic plants. ...