Estabrook Woods

[2] However, the woods have a history of human disturbance dating back to the Algonquian Native Americans who used controlled burning to clear tracts of land.

Not a cultivated, hardly a cultivatable field in it, and yet it delights all natural persons.”[5] During the early 20th century, a small number of Concord families began to acquire the land in Estabrook Woods.

In 1932, they successfully petitioned the town to close and discontinue the old logging trail known as Old Estabrook Road, ensuring it would be protected from residential development.

[10] Approximately half the Woods has trails open to the public, mostly by permission of the owners, subject to posted rules.

[11] The Town of Concord disputed the owners’ rights to close or regulate the trail and in November 2017 sued for access to the private road.