Why is no one hiking this trail in Massachusetts???

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]That's super cool.

[00:00:01]There's another secret spot and I'm debating whether or not I should reveal it because I don't know how many people know about this. Today I am at Sanderson Brook Falls in Chester, Massachusetts. We are going to be exploring another waterfall.

[00:00:16]Let's go into it. I have a beanie on today because my hair is not cooperating.

[00:00:21]All right, let's go.

[00:00:26]An interesting little fact about this park, it is part of a great depression program that put unemployed men to work in public parks and forests nationwide.

[00:00:36]The pathway to the falls is a nice gravel trail pretty much all the way up until you take a detour on the right.

[00:00:42]So, this is a pretty easy hike. And I'm not exactly sure, but I would say it's about a mile round trip unless you want to make it longer.

[00:00:52]There's tons of trails over here.

[00:00:55]I was just walking along the trail and I stumbled across this flower.

[00:01:01]This is a red trillium and I guess they're supposed to smell like rotting meat, which is kind of concerning because in the next clip I say it has no smell. So, I don't know why I didn't smell this.

[00:01:17]Do I smell like rotting meat? Is that why I didn't think it had a scent? But anyways, the reason they smell like rotting meat is because the pollinators of this flower are flies instead of bees. That's so neat. Let's see, does it have good scent?

[00:01:33]No.

[00:01:34]Smells like nothing.

[00:01:37]All right, let's keep going.

[00:01:40]On the hike up I also stumbled across these fiddleheads. Fun fact, they are actually baby ferns and some of them are edible. However, I do not know if these are edible, so I will not be eating them.

[00:01:53]Are these woodpecker holes? Okay, so I actually looked this up and these holes appear to be from a pileated woodpecker digging for carpenter ants, which is kind of insane because these holes are huge and really deep in the tree. That is a powerful bird. I have stumbled across more flowers.

[00:02:13]This is the white hobblebush native to Massachusetts and fun fact about this plant is those big flowers on the outside aren't actually the flowers. The flowers are those tiny little things on the inside and those outside flower dupes are there to signal for pollinators to go there. All right.

[00:02:36]You know you're getting close when you pass three bridges. This is bridge number two.

[00:02:44]They even added this doggy board so that your pets' paws don't slip through the grates.

[00:02:52]Let's see, is the hair still crazy?

[00:02:56]Ah, that's not that bad. I think we can take off the beanie now.

[00:03:04]Hold up, let's check this view out.

[00:03:09]Huh?

[00:03:10]Wow.

[00:03:13]Look at all this debris that's piled up from the water's currents.

[00:03:18]Ooh.

[00:03:23]Mushroom.

[00:03:26]Sanderson Falls is the type of place that just kind of makes you want to wander a babbling brook sometimes.

[00:03:32]All right, we're getting close. Okay, we're approaching where the main trail detours.

[00:03:40]Detours.

[00:03:42]I felt like I said that weird.

[00:03:44]Anyways, right here. Just got to follow this path.

[00:03:50]Now it's time for the big reveal.

[00:03:52]Are you ready for it?

[00:03:54]What a waterfall.

[00:03:57]I mean, let's go explore it.

[00:04:01]I know I'm exploring this waterfall and climbing up it. However, I highly advise against doing this. There's no posted signs saying you can't, but let me tell you, one of the most common ways a hiker is going to get hurt is slippery, uneven terrain. And let me tell you, waterfalls are the most slippery uneven terrain that you're going to come by.

[00:04:26]Um however, I did climb it anyways and I wanted to show off these really cool views. Normally I wouldn't do this though because it's unnecessary risk, but I wanted to show it off cuz it's really cool and I hope you enjoy.

[00:04:44]Wow.

[00:05:01]That's super cool.

[00:05:03]There's another secret spot and I'm debating whether or not I should reveal it because I don't know how many people know about this. Cut to undisclosed location of second waterfall.

[00:05:14]Before I ended this video, I really wanted to show this off. I think it is one of the things I love about New England most. When you go somewhere for the main attraction and you just explore a little bit more and you end up finding something that is arguably just as cool if not even cooler because many people haven't seen it. And I really love this spot. That concludes today's day adventure of Sanderson Brook Falls.

[00:05:45]I hope you enjoyed.

[00:05:47]Catch you in the next video.

[00:05:50]Bye.