Explore a landscape of broad fields and elegant double-faced stone walls, once part of a larger farm that's still in operation today.

East Over Reservation’s agrarian terrain and iconic yellow farm buildings evoke a sense of days gone by. The old field habitat supports a distinctive assemblage of wildlife species including blue-winged warbler, Eastern towhee, and cottontail rabbit. Two miles of quarry-stone-capped double walls surround it all and speak to the property’s history: stone walls had become a more aesthetic element of rural architecture by the 19th century, and the rock barriers surrounding the East Over landscape took more than a decade to complete.

Trails pass through a mosaic of farm fields, forests, and winding hedgerows. The surrounding woods shelter vernal pools and, amidst the fields and barns, you’ll find bobolinks, orioles, and chimney swifts.

A trailhead on County Road in Marion accesses miles of East Over landscape, through the Hales Brook & Sippican River Tract. Forest trails traverse pine and oak uplands and unique wetland habitats, and provide sweeping views of active cranberry bogs.

The AllTrails website has a description and map of a hike at East Over Reservation.