Wachusett Mountain via West Side Trail
Where: Wachusett Mountain When: 6/27/2019 With: Solo Looking at a map of the trails at Wachusett Mountain, I realized I'd walked most of them already, so when the opportunity arose (a day with no plans), I headed west to cover one I hadn't walked, the West Side trail. My phone's navigation got me there with no problems, with the route leaving the paved roads and on to gravel to get to the trail head. Though it was mid-day on a Thursday, I noted that the other trail heads I passed along the way all had multiple cars parked. It's a popular place to walk. I pulled in to the parking lot right around 12:30, sharing the area with two other cars, and I was quickly headed up the trail. I turned around a few hundred feet up and went back to get a picture of the trail head sign before retracing my steps and continuing the hike. A fairly easy walk at first, then the path made a steep ascent through a rocky cleft before leveling off again. The rest of the walk was bits of lev...