Traveling on North Valley Road to the left (south) for 0.2 miles, the trail follows power lines uphill a short distance and then joins the orange-blazed Robert Frost Trail to climb over the bare ledges of Mount Orient, then runs the length of this ridge through oak and white birch woods, eventually descending to a gravel road crossing over Heatherstone Brook. From this point it swings west over the shoulder of Poverty Mountain, and following a pleasant old wood road down its western slope, it emerges in the beautiful mature pine/hemlock woods of the old Adams Homestead, formerly owned by the late Professor Walter Banfield, the founder of the M-M Trail, on Pratt Corner Road. The trail continues on lightly trafficked dirt roads towards Atkins Reservoir and Town of Amherst watershed land.
The orange-blazed Robert Frost Trail is co-aligned with the M-M Trail in this section.
Hikers, we have been requested by a property owner to not include their land as part of the MM Trail. The blazing in these sections have been painted over. However, you are welcome to hike on this land. Signs will be posted in the future to explain the closing on the trail heads and just before you get to this land with distances. The MM trail committee is working to find new routing for the Trail and hopefully in the future we will be able to provide a continuous trail from the Connecticut line to Mount Monadnock. In the meantime, if you do not feel comfortable hiking without blazing, you should skip these sections.
