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Wax Factory Pond & Lackey Lane via Ware River Rail Trail is a 10.6-mile out-and-back in Ware River Watershed near Barre Falls, MA. The route reaches Wax Factory Pond at the turnaround, 5.3 miles in. It climbs 338 ft. It scores 25/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi656 – 853 ft10.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Lackey Lane 42.42885, -72.02828
Nearest town Barre Falls, MA

Directions

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Wax Factory Pond & Lackey Lane via Ware River Rail Trail

10.6 mi · ▲ 338 ft · 3 hr 42 min

Elevation 657–853 ft

Out & Back · Ware River Watershed

Trailhead: Lackey Lane · 42.42885, -72.02828

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:44 AM · sunset 8:06 PM

  1. Start on Lackey Lane, heading SW.
  2. 1.4 miTurn right onto Ware River Rail Trail, heading N.
  3. 1.5 miTurn right, heading NE.
  4. 0.2 miTurn left, heading NW.
  5. 2.2 miReach Wax Factory Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 2.2 miTurn right, heading SW.
  7. 1.7 miTurn left onto Lackey Lane, heading E.
  8. 1.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

28% dirt72% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:44 AMSunset 8:06 PM

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