Jacobs Hill

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

The Tully Trail at Jacobs Hill

Jacobs Hill ( officially Jacob Hill ) is a 173 acre ( 0.7 km ²) large nature reserve around the same, 1,063 ft (324 m) high mountain near Royalston, Massachusetts in the United States, that of the organization The Trustees of Reservations is managed.

Sanctuary

The protected area lead about 2 mi (3.2 km) hiking trails along the ridge line of the Jacobs Hill by a lush environment of birches, maples, ash and beech forest and connect two viewpoints with each other. On the way, passing by, inter alia, by the waterfall Spirit Falls, good impressions of Tully Mountain, the Mount Grace and the Berkshire Mountains can be won in total. Below the road from the lake Long Pond and the eastern branch of the Tully River, which flows gently in the direction of Tully Lake.

At the eastern end of the reserve lies with the lake Little Pond, the source of the Spirit Falls. These form concentric rings around an open water surface, and a large deposit of peat moss is a classic swamp, in the black spruce and larch Ostamerikanische. Crossing the river at the waterfall, you come to an area called The Ledges. A branch of the trail connects it to the 22 mi ( 35.4 km ) long Tully Trail.

The basis for the creation of the protected area was made possible by an anonymous donation, by which the trustees were able to acquire 1975 first subareas. Additional purchases were made in 1978 and 1994.