Most people drive right past the exit without a second thought, completely unaware that one of the most spectacular geological features in New England is sitting just off Route 146 in Sutton, Massachusetts.
Charley’s Loop Trail at Purgatory Chasm State Reservation is the kind of discovery that makes you want to call someone immediately and tell them to drop whatever they’re doing.
It’s that good.
The chasm is a quarter-mile fracture in the earth, carved out by glacial forces at the end of the last Ice Age roughly 14,000 years ago…