Town Park
Location
Located off Rt-38 in south Wilmington.
Once Wilmington's 92 acre Poor Farm, the Town Park, officially designated "Veterans' Memorial Park" at the bicentennial in 1930, now affords a wonderful variety of active and passive recreational opportunities, water supply protection, and links to a very well preserved section of the old Middlesex Canal, including the remains of the aqueduct over Maple Meadow Brook. Two parcels of the original farm on the opposite side of Main Street were sold off for commercial development, but much of the remaining 61 acres has been allowed to revert back to woods, predominantly white pine and oak. A lighted baseball field abuts the MBTA's Lowell line commuter railroad and the Town Park well, and kids of all ages enjoy the challenge of sledding down "Suicide Alley" in the winter. A network of trails provides calmer enjoyment for hikers, joggers, and cross-country skiers. The Middlesex Canal runs through a portion of the park that abuts land owned by the Middlesex Canal Association, and the Butters Row and Chestnut Street well fields
