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Joanne Bass Bross Preserve
Peterborough, NH

Overlooking Bross Preserve
View from North Pack Monadnock Mountain of Joanne Bass Bross Preserve.
Eric Aldrich Photo (C) TNC.

This 501-acre preserve in Temple and Peterborough occupies the east side of Pack Monadnock Mountain and links Miller State Park and the Wapack National Wildlife Refuge, creating a vital wildlife corridor of nearly 3,000 acres. The acreage provides habitat for moose, deer, fisher, and many interior forest bird species.  The tract also preserves a key scenic viewshed and contains a portion of the Wapack trail, the oldest interstate trail in the Northeast.

Directions:
To Miller State Park: From Peterborough, go east on Route 101. Near Temple Mountain Ski Area (discontinued), turn left into Miller State Park.
From Wilton, go west on Route 101. Just after Temple Mountain Ski Area, turn right into Miller State Park.

To Wapack Trail trailhead terminus: From downtown Peterborough: Route 202 (Concord Street) north, turn right onto Sand Hill Road. Follow Sand Hill Road all the way to end (3+ miles from Old Street Road). Turn right at Old Mountain Road. Go almost .9 mile to Wapack trailhead on right.

Bass Bross Preserve
A hiker passes through the Joanne Bass Bross Preserve on the Wapack Trail, which stretches from Mount Watatic in Ashburnham, Mass., to North Pack Monadnock Mountain in Greenfield. Eric Aldrich photo (C) TNC.