414 ft
Distance
4 ft
Climb
00:00:51
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Fletcher Shore Loop Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • Horse
    • Hike
    • Trail Running
  • Riding Area
    Silver Lake Trails
    Grafton, Massachusetts
  • Difficulty Rating
    Green rate
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    XC
  • Global Ranking
    #209414 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • #19662 in Hiking
  • Local Popularity
    70 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 5 in Trail Running
    • 5 in Hiking
    • 5 in Horseback
  • Land Owner
    Grafton Conservation Commission and Grafton Land Trust

Fletcher Island is a mounded shape, full of mature pine trees, with a carpet of pine needles covering the island. Great views of Silver Lake, and usually you have the place to yourself. It's part of the Grafton Land Trust parcel known as Fletcher Reserve.

For several years through the late 1960s the then-named Grafton Forest Association sought to purchase the island on Silver Lake from Judge Gordon A. Shaw of Milford, MA. The Trust's initial offer for the island was $3,500. Ater several years of intermittent negotiations, the purchase of the island and some of the eastern shore of the lake was closed in March of 1970 for $5,000. The money came from member contributions and fundraising, including $1,000 from Wyman-Gordon.

At the time, the island was not accessable from the eastern shore. That summer, 75 people went to the island by boats for a picnic and a dedication ceremony. The property was dedicated to the memory of Helen Fletcher, a former naturalist and a GFA member and was named the Fletcher Reserve.

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Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Fletcher Shore Loop multi-use trail trail
  • Altitude change
    4 ft
  • Altitude min
    354 ft
  • Altitude max
    361 ft
  • Altitude start
    355 ft
  • Altitude end
    359 ft
  • Grade
    1.03%
  • Grade max
    -6.068%
  • Grade min
    6.296%
  • Distance climb
    264 ft
  • Distance down
    106 ft
  • Distance flat
    44 ft
  • Avg time
    00:00:51
  • Avg reverse time
    00:00:46
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