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15 stops in route order. Everything is readable and playable here, whether or not you're on the trail.

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  Sprague Upper Reservoir is the centerpiece of Camp Shepard

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  Sprague Upper Reservoir is the centerpiece of Camp Shepard. Much of the trail system bends around the water, so the reservoir keeps reappearing from different angles as you walk.

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  Sprague Upper Reservoir mapped coordinate

• 2The shoreline gives this property a completely…
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• 3Small streams wind through the property and feed the…
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• 4Those buildings in the woods are leftovers from Camp…
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• 5A pavilion near the reservoir recalls the days when…
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• 6A log-cabin-style building is another surviving piece…
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• 7The red-blazed route makes use of old camp roads
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• 8Those wide woods roads are essentially fossilized…
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• 9A commonly used loop here is around three miles, though…
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• 10Colwell Road is the modern gateway into Camp Shepard
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• 11Sprague Upper Reservoir belongs to a much older water…
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• 12Upstream reservoirs helped keep downstream mills…
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• 13The property's newer public-recreation role is another…
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• 14Look along wet shoreline sections for gnawed wood,…
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• 15Every stream and drop of water here belongs to the…
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