This is a delightful walk at any season for its sylvan beauty. The trail here descends the northwest slope of Mount Lincoln beside a small, fast falling brook in a narrow hemlock glen, passes through the managed pine and hemlock mixed forest near Amherst’s Hawley and Hill Reservoirs and thence downstream beside Harris Brook. Near the confluence of Harris and Amethyst Brooks the trail continues downstream under a canopy of hemlocks and pines, then upstream beside a succession of waterfalls to a footbridge over Buffum Brook beside North Valley Road in Pelham.
Nearly all of this section lies on public lands: UMass Forestry Dept., town of Amherst water supply land, and Pelham conservation land.
