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As of Friday, the GoFundMe campaign had raised just over $5,800 of its $100,000 target.
The 120-member land trust, formed in 1991, bought the forested quarry in 1999 for $300,000. The preservationists jumped in to keep a company from buying the quarry and excavating millions of cubic yards of granite for Bostonâs $8 billion Central Artery/Tunnel project, infamously known as the Big Dig.
Since the purchase, the land trust has developed 10 trails of varying difficulty, the main trail off Quarry Road going from a parking area directly to the quarry. Smith noted that, in recent years, the Appalachian Mountain Club has helped expand the trail system.
14,000 people visited this remote Massachusetts quarry in 2020; land trust has a plan to deal with the crowds
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Posted Dec 14, 2020
12/5/2020 -Becket- Sean Barrett and Maria Garcia of Westfield enjoy the view at the historic Becket Quarry property. (Don Treeger / The Republican)
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BECKET Twenty years ago a grassroots conservation group bought the historic Becket Quarry property so it wouldn’t be reopened to provide crushed stone for the Big Dig.
The volunteer Becket Land Trust raised $300,000 to make the purchase. In the decades since, President Ken Smith says, the group has received another $250,000 in state and private grants, built 7 miles of hiking trails, established a 40-acre habitat for the New England Cottontail, and created a 20-acre forest preserve for healthy oak trees beloved by wildlife.