In forested country, mostly on narrow footpaths, the trail here climbs over the January Hills area through oak and white birch, often with an abundant understory of white pine saplings, to emerge at the Roaring Brook Conservation area on Shutesbury Rd. Flood prone Roaring Brook is now safely crossed on the Walter Banfield Memorial Footbridge (AmeriCorps 1999).
The trail has been substantially relocated (2004) in this section onto a very remote, intersting route.
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 Conn. line to Mount Monadnock. In the meantime, if you do not feel comfortable hiking without blazing, you should skip these sections.
