Mount Ann Park

Mount Ann Park IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
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location	Massachusetts , United States
surface	35.21 ha
WDPA ID	55553970
Geographical location	42 ° 37 '  N , 70 ° 44'  W Coordinates: 42 ° 36 '47 "  N , 70 ° 43' 31"  W
Setup date	1897
administration	The Trustees of Reservations

Mount Ann Park is the name of an 87  acres (35.2  hectare ) nature reserve near Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It is managed by The Trustees of Reservations organization, but is not open to the public.

Protected area

The reserve consists essentially of densely overgrown forest areas in which Weymouth pines , oaks , maples , beeches , birches and hemlocks thrive. The highest point is formed by a rounded rock, which was geologically formed as an outcrop and consists of granite . There is a good view of Haskell Pond and Dykes Pond , both of which provide drinking water to Gloucester. Gloucester Harbor can also be seen to the south and Crane Beach to the north.

The initially freely accessible area was cut off from the only available access in the course of the construction of Massachusetts Route 128 in the 1950s, as the other sides of the reserve are either part of the hydrological catchment area of the city of Gloucester or border on private property. However, the trustees offer irregular guided hikes in the protected area.

The reserve was established in 1897 on the basis of a gift from the brothers of Henry David Minot, who wrote The Land Birds and Game Birds of New England at the age of 17 and died at a young age, to the Trustees and in the following Several decades - most recently in 1963 - expanded.

See also

• List of protected areas of the Trustees of Reservations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Mount Ann Park. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; accessed on March 23, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Henry David Minot: The land-birds and game-birds of New England . with descriptions of the birds, their nests and eggs, their habits and notes. Estes & Lauriat, Boston 1877, OCLC 1547002 .
3. ^ Property History. (No longer available online.) The Trustees of Reservations , archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; accessed on March 23, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Mount Ann Park on the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
• Mount Ann Park on TripAdvisor