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Plymouth Preserves

Historical Plymouth is, as you would guess from your history classes, on the water (Cape Cod Bay). We have visited these preserves in Plymouth:

Center Hill Preserve

Link to website

Location on a map

PDF Trail Map

The Center Hill Preserve is a large preserve with two sections, one on each side of Center Hill Road. On one side (west) are a woods and abandoned cranberry bog. Despite what the write-up linked to above says, we did not feel the trails were particularly well marked. The walk goes through the woods and around the bog.

View of cranberry bog

Abandoned cranberry bog and pump house

We don't have a picture of this, but a house near the entrance has a very tall wind turbine. Seems like an interesting way to provide yourself some power, but it was surprisingly noisy!

The other, smaller, side goes down to the water and a beach. The exposed hillside shows that the land is basically sand here.

Sandy hill at Center Hill Preserve

This beach has great colorful stones.

Colorful rocks

Colorful rocks

This one was Anne's favorite, with remarkably interesting colors:

a rock with purple, green and yellow in it

Ellisville Harbor State Park

Ellisville Harbor has its own page: click here for Ellisville Harbor State park.

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Updated May 2021