Hall's Pond Sanctuary

The day we moved in was a very hectic day. When the truck was finally emptied completely, a family friend helped us drop it off and gave us a ride back to town. She left us in Coolidge Corner, then a place we hardly knew at all but today, only a month later, a place we know better than any other around here. On our walk home that evening, we spotted a driveway that leads to what looked, from the street, like a really nice park. Despite our exhaustion, we simply had to check this place out, and it’s a good thing we did.

Hall’s Pond Sanctuary is a conservation area set adjacent to a baseball field with an expansive, gorgeous outfield that’s reminiscent of Central Park’s ball park. It consists of Hall’s Pond and the Armory woods, which have a winding wooden trail snaking throughout them that was renovated 5 years ago. There is also a ‘Formal Garden’ that has two wooden benches and a beautiful garden with a fountain in the middle. Alongside the edges of the conservation is a row of weeping willow trees, which quickly set your mind and soul at ease as you approach the park. And, within the conservation area itself are a variety of wildlife that are safe to live there peacefully, including a very tall and awkward-looking Blue Herron. It’s a dream! (And it’s literally across the street from our house!)