{"id":261,"date":"2013-01-30T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orleansconservationtrust.org\/?p=261"},"modified":"2017-05-17T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T13:00:04","slug":"bakers-pond-conservation-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/bakers-pond-conservation-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker\u2019s Pond Conservation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acr<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3965 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bakers-Pond-Huckleberry-Hill-Map-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bakers-Pond-Huckleberry-Hill-Map-2017.jpg 739w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bakers-Pond-Huckleberry-Hill-Map-2017-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bakers-Pond-Huckleberry-Hill-Map-2017-290x194.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/>es:<\/strong> 35+ (Between Orleans and Brewster)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Trail Length:<\/strong>&nbsp;Varies depending on loop &#8211; up to 3&nbsp;miles<br \/>\n<strong>Parking:<\/strong> 80 Baker\u2019s Pond Road, Orleans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conservation History and Importance:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Town of Orleans acquired several parcels, formerly part of the Corrigan property, in 1988 for conservation, open space, and recreation purposes.&nbsp; The property comprises two parcels totaling an area of 16.5 acres with Bakers Pond to the north. The Bakers Pond Conservation Area is part of a contiguous natural area from Nickerson State Park in Brewster across Route 6 to the watershed in Orleans. Bakers Pond is a classic coastal plain kettle pond with a wide sandy shoreline, which is inundated seasonally when the water table is high. This wide beach supports a substantial and unique plant community including the rare Spatulate-leaved sun-dew and Plymouth gentian.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nTrailhead Parking:<\/strong><br \/>\nDirections: From Orleans shopping center (Shaw&#8217;s) follow Rt. 6A west towards Brewster for 1.0 miles. Take a left onto Bakers Pond Road and follow for .6 miles. Town parking will be on your right.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acres: 35+ (Between Orleans and Brewster) Total Trail Length:&nbsp;Varies depending on loop &#8211; up to 3&nbsp;miles Parking: 80 Baker\u2019s Pond Road, Orleans Conservation History and Importance: The Town of Orleans acquired several parcels, formerly part of the Corrigan property, in 1988 for conservation, open space, and recreation purposes.&nbsp; The property comprises two parcels totaling an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}