Protected Lands
The Harwich Conservation Trust (HCT) works with individuals and families to preserve special places. HCT preserves land to protect water resources like our drinking water supply, harbors, ponds, Pleasant Bay, and Herring River, to protect wildlife habitat, to save scenic views, to create walking trails, to protect community character, and to safeguard many other important environmental elements that hold us here and draw countless visitors.
Below is a growing list of the lands that HCT has protected by accepting land donations, holding conservation restrictions, and purchasing property. With your support, we can preserve more.
| LOCATION | PROTECTED | UPLAND | WETLAND | TOTAL | DESCRIPTION | ACQUIRED BY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Pond Road | 10/01/90 | 0.33 | 0 | 0.33 | Pine/oak woods next to Mill Pond | Gift |
| Off Cove Road | 12/01/91 | 2.01 | 0 | 2.01 | Next to Olivers Pond Cons Area | Gift |
| Sequattom Road | 11/01/92 | 2.41 | 2.59 | 5 | Pond front; pine/oak woods; CR | Gift |
| Lovers Lane | 12/01/92 | 2.29 | 0.65 | 2.94 | Old bog; feeds Grassy Pond | Gift |
| Great Western Road | 05/01/93 | 0.35 | 0.36 | 0.71 | Maple swamp; abuts bike trail | Gift |
| Skinequit Road | 09/01/93 | 2.19 | 0 | 2.19 | Wildlife habitat for Skinequit Pond | Gift |
| Route 39 | 12/01/93 | 0.99 | 0 | 0.99 | Pine/oak; next to town wellfield | Gift |
| Gorham Court | 05/01/94 | 0.54 | 0 | 0.54 | Next to Bank Street bogs | Gift |
| Route 28 | 05/01/94 | 0.88 | 0 | 0.88 | Pine/oak; next to Route 28 | Gift |
| Off Route 28 | 06/01/94 | 1.99 | 9.76 | 11.75 | Boardwalk with salt marsh view | Gift |
| Lovers Lane | 12/01/94 | 0 | 2.82 | 2.82 | Old bog; feeds Grassy Pond | Gift |
| Hilltop Road | 12/01/94 | 0 | 0.27 | 0.27 | Next to Wheeler Bog | Gift |
| Route 137 | 01/01/95 | 13.58 | 0 | 13.58 | Scotch Pine Farms; pine/oak woods | Gift |
| Federal Lane | 11/01/95 | 10.01 | 0 | 10.01 | Pine/oak woods; cluster open space | Gift |
| Off Lothrop Ave. | 04/01/97 | 13.96 | 1.92 | 15.88 | Pine/oak; cedar swamp; CBW | Purchase |
| Great Western Road | 11/01/97 | 0.2 | 3 | 3.2 | Coy's Brook Woodlands (CBW) | Gift |
| Turning Way | 12/01/97 | 0.33 | 0.05 | 0.38 | Pine/oak scrub habitat | Gift |
| Lothrop Avenue | 05/01/98 | 5.43 | 0.75 | 6.18 | Pine woods; maple swamp; CBW | Purchase |
| Packet Way | 12/01/98 | 0.76 | 0 | 0.76 | Pine/oak scrub habitat | Gift |
| Off Factory Road | 12/01/99 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | Old bog | Gift |
| Off Queen Anne Road | 02/01/00 | 4.42 | 0 | 4.42 | Pine/oak; next to Hawksnest SP | Gift |
| North of Island Pond | 07/01/00 | 36.38 | 0 | 36.38 | Cons. Restriction; woods; old bogs | Purchase |
| Lothrop Avenue | 08/01/00 | 1.04 | 0 | 1.04 | Pine/oak woods; CBW | Purchase |
| Pleasant Lake Ave. | 09/01/00 | 0.75 | 3.47 | 4.22 | Feeds Coy's Brook; maple swamp | Purchase |
| Great Western Road | 11/01/00 | 7.2 | 0.7 | 7.9 | Feeds Coy's Brook; maple swamp | Gift |
| Windswept Way | 12/01/00 | 1.21 | 0 | 1.21 | Pine/oak woods | Gift |
| Off Island Pond Rd. | 12/01/00 | 0 | 4.81 | 4.81 | Island Pond area; abuts bike trail | Gift |
| Off Pleasant Lake Ave. | 01/05/01 | 0 | 3.72 | 3.72 | Island Pond area | Gift |
| Lothrop Avenue | 01/16/01 | 0.97 | 0.31 | 1.28 | Part of Lee Baldwin Nature Walk | Purchase |
| Off Deacon's Folly Rd | 06/12/01 | 5.91 | 0 | 5.91 | Sand Pond; Herring Riv. watershed | Purchase |
| Bank Street Bogs | 06/20/01 | 22.24 | 40 | 62.24 | Historic cranberry bogs & upland | Purchase |
| Off Lothrop Ave. | 08/31/01 | 0.77 | 2 | 2.77 | Baldwin Nature Walk | Purchase |
| Off Lothrop Ave. | 11/01/01 | 16.13 | 6.8 | 22.93 | Protects Coy's Brook; Cons Restrict | Purchase |
| Main Street | 11/29/01 | 2.63 | 0 | 2.63 | Bequest | Gift |
| Gilbert Lane | 12/19/01 | 0.29 | 0 | 0.29 | Shrub cover; Herring Riv. watershed | Gift |
| Queen Anne Road | 07/26/02 | 8.21 | 0.5 0 | 8.71 | Katie's Pond; bikepath | Purchase |
| Bank Street | 12/19/02 | 3 | 1.3 | 4.3 | Cluster Open Space | Gift |
| Off Deacons Folly Rd | 04/24/03 | 0.08 | 0 | 0.08 | Sand Pond | Gift |
| Nathan Walker Rd | 02/05/03 | 12 | 1.32 | 13.32 | Cons. Restriction; Walkers Pond | Gift |
| Nor'East Dr | 09/03/03 | 0.49 | 0 | 0.49 | Upland | Gift |
| Sou'West Dr | 09/03/03 | 0.35 | 0 | 0.35 | Upland | Gift |
| Hinckleys Pond | 12/23/03 | 5.2 | 0 | 5.2 | Private Cons Restrict | Gift |
| Harvest Hollow Dr. | 04/16/04 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.9 | Cluster subd. open space | Gift |
| Lothrop Avenue | 08/05/04 | 0.94 | 0 | 0.94 | Expands Coy's Brook Woodlands | Purchase |
| Harwich | 11/22/04 | 0 | 0 | Fractional interests | Gift | |
| Lothrop Avenue | 06/23/05 | 0.2 | 0.64 | 0.84 | Expands Lee Baldwin Nature Walk | Purchase |
| Cape Cod Rail Trail | 09/30/05 | 0.15 | 0.35 | 0.5 | Expands Katies Pond Sanctuary | Gift |
| Chatham Road & Long Road | 12/08/05 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | Protects vernal pool and roadside greenbelt | Gift |
| Pleasant Lake Ave. (Rt. 124) | 12/29/05 | 0.33 | 0 | 0.33 | Protects woodland and roadside greenbelt | Gift |
| Bay Road | 04/28/06 | 42.55 | 0 | 42.55 | Monomoy River Woodlands (Pleasant Bay) | Purchase |
| Weston Woods Road | 08/03/07 | 0.72 | 0 | 0.72 | Gateway to Island Pond Conservation Lands | Gift |
| Bell's Neck Road | 11/01/07 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 4.5 | Vernal pool next to 50+ acres of cons. land | Gift |
| Island Pond Trail | 12/14/07 | 6.9 | 2.4 | 9.3 | Vernal pool, Island Pond Cons. Lands | Cons. Rest. |
| Pleasant Lake Ave. (Rt. 124) | 12/31/07 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Woodland | Gift |
| Punkhorn Road | 12/28/07 | 15.77 | 8.14 | 23.91 | Conservation Restriction (private land) | Gift |
| off Lover's Lane | 12/07/12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Woodland and wetland | Gift |
| Long Road | 01/04/08 | 0.46 | 0 | 0.46 | Wooded building lot | Gift |
| North Road | 07/11/08 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.04 | View of the Herring River | Gift |
| Purmackene Lane | 11/14/08 | 0.17 | 0 | 0.17 | Roadway greenbelt | Gift |
| Route 28, West Harwich | 04/21/09 | 3 | 3.8 | 6.8 | Herring River Watershed | Purchase |
| Anonymous | 05/05/09 | 1.6 | 4.26 | 5.86 | Long Pond shoreline | Gift |
| Lothrop Avenue | 08/07/09 | 1 | 5 | 6 | Roadside greenbelt | Gift |
| Lothrop Avenue | 08/07/09 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Salt marsh | Gift |
| Island Pond Trail | 05/11/10 | 2.9 | 0 | 2.9 | Forest, connected to Island Pond Cons. Lands | Cons. Rest. |
| off Lothrop Avenue | 06/25/10 | 5.46 | 3.93 | 9.39 | Riparian buffer on Coy's Brook, forest, wetland | Purchase |
| Six Ponds DCPC | 06/25/10 | 3.71 | 3.63 | 7.34 | Forest and wetland | Purchase |
| off Queen Anne Road | 01/19/11 | 9 | 0 | 9 | Forest | Cons. Rest. |
| Route 28 | 03/15/11 | 1.74 | 0 | 1.74 | Forest, 280 feet of roadside greenbelt | Gift |
| Haskell Lane | 06/17/11 | 38.71 | 0 | 38.71 | Forest, potential vernal pool | Cons. Rest. |
| Grist Mill Lane | 02/13/13 | 0.53 | 0.1 | 0.63 | Next to potential vernal pool | Gift |
| Pleasant Lake Avenue | 02/13/13 | 0.42 | 1.02 | 1.44 | Forest, wetland | Gift |
| Bank Street | 02/13/13 | 0 | 4 | 4 | Next to Town Conservation Land | Gift |
| Signal Lane | 05/06/13 | 0.37 | 0 | 0.37 | Forest, upland | Gift |
| South Street | 06/01/13 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.9 | Forest, wetland | Gift |
| South Street | 06/01/13 | 0.99 | 0 | 0.99 | Forest, wetland | Gift |
| Forest Street | 06/01/13 | 1.5 | 0 | 1.5 | Forest, wetland, roadside greenbelt | Gift |
| Deacon's Folly Rd | 1/30/2014 | 4.38 | 6.96 | 11.34 | Sand Pond, bog | Purchase |
| Grist Mill Lane | 1/30/2014 | 0.59 | 0.2 | 0.79 | Woodland and wetland | Gift |
| Bay Road | 6/27/2014 | 8 | 1.68 | 9.68 | Pleasant Bay Woodlands, Phase 1 | Purchase |
| Bob White Lane | 1/20/2015 | 0 | 1.34 | 1.34 | Red River salt marsh | Gift |
| Bay Road | 1/26/2015 | 1.04 | 0 | 1.04 | Woodland | Gift |
| Uncle Venies Rd | 9/3/2015 | 0 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Red River salt marsh | Gift |
| Kendrick Rd | 3/3/2017 | 35.9 | 2.7 | 38.6 | Pleasant Bay Woodlands, Phase 2 | Purchase |
| Proprietor's Way | 10/6/2017 | 7.2 | 0 | 7.2 | Hinckleys Pond, woodland | Gift |
| Long Pond Dr | 4/6/2017 | 1.17 | 0.41 | 1.58 | Long Pond watershed | Gift |
| Church St | 1/22/2018 | 14 | 3.43 | 17.43 | Muddy Creek, meadow, woodland | Purchase |
| Weston Woods Rd | 2/9/2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Woodland, wetland | Gift |
| Queen Anne Rd | 6/21/2019 | 14 | 0.9 | 14.9 | Cornelius Pond, meadow, woodland | Purchase |
| Uncle Venies Rd | 5/5/2020 | 0.4 | 6.6 | 7 | Red River salt marsh | Gift |
| Church St | 1/19/2021 | 3.47 | 0.05 | 3.52 | Woodland, wetland | Gift |
| Proprietor's Way | 1/19/2021 | 6.65 | 0 | 6.65 | Woodland | Gift |
| TOTAL ACRES PROTECTED | 432.86 | 153.82 | 587.18 |