OR To start this walk from Boscawen, take Queen Street off Route 3 in Boscawen. Turn off Queen Street onto Weir Road, which leads you to the Boscawen Town Forest and trailhead parking. Follow yellow blazes throughout the trail. A marsh appears on your left and you soon reach a pool at an outlet into the marsh. Lemna minor, minute green flowers, float on the surface of the pool.
Cattails edge the marsh.
There is a bench where you can sit and watch the herons that nest in the tops of the snags in the marsh. The trail continues uphill, past a patch of mayflowers. When you see red paint on the trees you've reached the border of the Boscawen Town Forest. Painted yellow blazes indicate a turn around here to return the way you came. OR Continue to follow the yellow blazes the Boscawen Conservation Commission has blazed through their town forest.