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A flat pond-side and woodland trail within 10 to 40 feet of Jordan Pond with fantastic views of surrounding mountains. Trail sections date to 1890, 1896 and 1898, with substantial construction work by the VIS in the 1920s and the CCC in the 1930s. Tread width averages 2-4' and is mostly gravel-paved except for one long section of bogwalk on west side, one tumbledown crossing, and several bridge crossings that include a rustic style wooden bridge (installed 1983) at beach on north end. Trail also passes Sarah Cushing Memorial Bench, with a bronze plaque, near the south end of the pond and a bronze plaque honoring Joseph Allen, set in a boulder on the shore of the pond, near the base of South Bubble. Some historic stone retaining wall (c. 1920s) extant, but NPS rehabilitation since 1997 has produced much of path's highly-constructed work such as open and closed culverts, several multi-tiered walls including one section almost 6’ high, crush-walls, long sections of walled causeway, steps and stone paving, large stepping stones, wooden walled-crib steps, and a hardened vista access. Views of surrounding mountains are incredible - especially view of the Bubbles from south end of pond, and view facing south from north end beach. Much of southern end is handicapped accessible, and trail conveniently intersects Pond Trail, the abandoned Goat Trail, South and North Bubble, Jordan Pond Carry, and Deer Brook Trails. SB, GJS
