Size
6.6 Acres

Description
The commonwealth offers farmers a preferential tax assessment, in order to prevent local taxes from undermining farm businesses. Several conditions apply, one of which is that the local town enjoys a right-of-first-refusal should any of this land ever be marketed for a non-agricultural purpose. When these four acres abutting this pond were contracted for sale as a houselot, the Oak Bluffs and Tisbury selectmen assigned their purchase rights to the land bank; Little Duarte’s Pond Preserve resulted. It fits ideally into the land bank’s planned cross-Tisbury trail.

Uses

Nature study, hiking, picnicking, mountain-biking, horseback-riding, dog-walking (town bylaw requires leashing).

Directions

Park in the trailhead at the Wapatequa Woods Reservation (property no. 16) and follow signs.

Trail/Property Map  Click to View 

Features