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Into the Woods Old Rte 25 Sandpits

Sandpits

If you were to turn left just as the Cross Rivendell Trail joins Townshed Road, you would reach the town sandpits. The sandpits were formed many thousands? millions of years ago when they served as shoreline delta to Lake Hitchcock. The following map indicates that the edges of the lake reached elevations of roughly 600 feet. mapenlarge