A brand-new boardwalk through the wetlands behind Codman Pool is open for business—one of several bridge/boardwalk projects to come.
The boardwalk between Sandy Pond Road and the Lincoln School campus—which opened in time for the Fourth (actually Fifth) of July fireworks—is the first to be funded by a state grant that Lincoln Land Manager Dave McKinnon applied for. It’s a year-round walkway that will accommodate walkers and families with strollers at all times of the year as well as a skiable trail in winter. Visitors can now park at the schools and walk to the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, or if they’re more ambitious, all the way around Flint’s Pond.
Conservation Commission staff, Lincoln Land Conservation Trust summer interns and volunteers pitched in to do the construction work.
The Rizzo family, which lives just to the east of the trail, has been generous in allowing their property to be used as an emergency evacuation route from the schools, but this has meant that casual walkers often use their private land, said Peter von Mertens, co-chair of the Conservation Commission. Town officials hope the new boardwalk will become the sole public access.
Photos courtesy Peter von Mertens
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