Indian Crossway Conservation Area

Going east on Main Street (Route 27) just past the Hanson Police Station, turn right onto Crooker Place. At the end of the street, you will cross over the commuter rail line and will find a small parking area immediately to the left. At the parking area, you will see a fire road grate and just beyond that a kiosk. Follow this trail through the woods and out to views of the Great Cedar Swamp and Burrage Pond Reservoirs and eventually to Elm Street.

The Indian Crossway through the Burrage Pond Wildlife Area is part of the ancient trail used by the Native Americans in what is now the Taunton River and North River watershed areas. The trail was a route between these two watershed areas that roughly followed from Indian Head Pond along what is now Main Street in Hanson, to Crooker Place and through the Great Cedar Swamp highlands and out to what is now the Smith-Nawazelski Conservation Area and on to East Bridgewater and the Taunton River Watershed lands. The trails that begins at Crooker Place is part of the Bay Circuit Trail and is the only remaining “undeveloped” part of the ancient trail.