6/8/2020 - Ashland

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We did not make it out of Ashland today, but we did make it to Market Basket.  I parked in Montenegro Square in Ashland Center, named after a late town worthy, not the country.  Thank you Ashland for providing free electric car charging in the shade! 

We passed the quaint Victorian rail station (now repurposed as a doctor’s office and headed for the cemetery.  

Wildwood Cemetery is Ashland’s answer to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge (kind of), dating from Victorian times with memorials in a park-like hilly setting.  

I did not discover that dogs are not allowed in the cemetery until my return trip.  The trail route shunts to the side of the cemetery, avoiding the gate where the rules are posted, and then took us around the back to a trail behind the high school. I had a little trouble finding the trail from the cemetery.  Outbound, I took the wrong service road to the wrong part of the path behind the high school.  On the return, I figured out that I should have gone deeper into the cemetery to an equally unmarked different service road, but whatever.  

I’m getting pretty familiar with popping out in a cul-de-sac and heading through suburbia. 

There were two other woodland breaks, the first one featuring a water feature for my hot poodle (he’s going to the groomer tomorrow and is very furry), and the second one (plenty of blazes there as the trail zigged a bit) bringing us out behind the Market Basket. 

The view heading back from Market Basket

Heading back from a cul-de-sac

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