Help! Trying to remember a place

Submitted by Nervous_Month_381 t3_z0vkz8 in massachusetts

Hello! I am trying to figure out where this place I went to a few times a number of years ago was, I'm pretty sure I went there for one of my geological field trips in college originally, and then I came back there on my own a few times after. There was this long stream that turned into an irrigation ditch of brackish water, it started off near a historical site for a house or something and had a wide beach where it turned onto the property. Then the stream went through some scrubby woods and stuff before running behind some houses. It went on for a long time, I remember taking the entire day to float the course of the stream and then walk back to my car. Anyone have any idea at all of what I'm talking about? I'm really sorry for the lack of information but that's all I can remember. I really wanna swim the course of that stream again once things start warming up in the spring.

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nightshade448 t1_ix7zohv wrote

The historic site, was that a big historic house, like The Crane Estate, or something smaller? Brackish water turning into an irrigation ditch makes me think of a salt marsh, where a stream turns into little more than a ditch at low tide. Ipswich or Essex river?

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix8rjvk wrote

Naw, I've been to crane estate before and it wasn't it. Ipswich and Essex rivers are also both places I like to go to. Thank you

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix7qcx4 wrote

Which college?

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix7u4jz wrote

UMass Lowell. I'm pretty sure this was something I first visited in school, but there's a possibility it could have been in boy scouts

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix7ujg0 wrote

The longest river tubing in Massachusetts is in Deerfield, MA but that wouldn’t be close enough to the ocean to become brackish.

Plus, you call it a stream but this is more of a river.

Here are some pictures though, look familiar?

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/massachusetts/longest-float-trip-ma/

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix80mos wrote

Naw, this is still good though, I'd love to check this out later on. It was a stream, pretty narrow, it went from a normal stream to an irrigation ditch about 3-4 feet wide. I didn't use a tube, just kind of swam and floated along the stream all day and walked like 6 miles through the woods back to my car. We didn't do that for the trip, we just kind of toured the site. It was when I came back that I decided to swim along it for the hell of it, I don't think it's something folks typically do as a tourist site. It was me just kind of doing my own thing, but I remember there was a pretty strong but not too fast current, it went from a rocky steam bed near the historical site to like a soft clay when it became an irrigation ditch. I'm betting there are probably a number of places similar to this all over mass, so my hope in finding this place again is kinda slim. Thank you!

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix80wx2 wrote

Sounds amazing and how nice that it was uncrowded.

I’d want to rediscover it as well.

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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ix81jkz wrote

This page has a drop down menu of historic homes. It would take a while and be tedious but you could check google maps for each one for location on a stream/beach. Kind of depends how determined you are.

https://www.historicnewengland.org/property/boardman-house/

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Nervous_Month_381 OP t1_ix8revc wrote

Awesome! Thank you. I'll dig around tonight and on my lunch break later

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