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It’s 20 miles from Boston
Twenty miles west of Boston, a 2,230-acre wildlife refuge spreads across four towns in Massachusetts, and most people driving past it have no idea what’s hiding inside.
Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge covers parts of Sudbury, Stow, Maynard and Hudson, with more than 15 miles of trails cutting through forests, wetlands and a pond with fishing piers.
The whole place is free, open sunrise to sunset every day of the year. But the trails lead past something you won’t find at any other hiking spot in New England.
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Families lost their farms to build an ammo depot
The land under this refuge has changed hands in ways most places never do. The Nipmuc people lived here first…