When a midwest youth I can safely say a cranberry was not anything I gave much thought to outside of Thanksgiving dinner. However when I moved from the Midwest to the east coast I started to hear a lot about cranberries and of all things cranberry bogs.
Cranberry bogs? What on earth is a cranberry bog? This remained a mystery to me until a family vacation one year to Nantucket in early fall and low and behold there in front of my very own eyes was a most beautiful sight – a sea of red ripe cranberries floating like bubbles on the surface of a pond. This I learned was a cranberry bog. It was an amazing thing to see.
Fast forward and as it turns out I have a cranberry bog in my very own neck of the woods.
The Carlisle Cranberry Bogs have been around since 1904 when the Lowell Cranberry Company owned the 310 acres of land. The town of Carlisle and Chelmsford later purchased the land and have continued to harvest cranberries with 19 acres actively devoted to this endeavor.
Visitors can walk a well
beaten trail around the perimeter of the cranberry bogs. Information about
cranberry growing and how the reservoirs and dams are used during the cranberry
harvest are posted along the trail. Aside from an interesting lesson in
cranberries and cranberry bogs the area is a lovely place for an easy open
space walk. Lots of wild life can be seen as well as an abundance of dogs, as this area is a favorite for the
canines and their owners!
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