Monson Center — Attraction in Hollis

If your a birder this place is for you. As well as a Mycophile. Semi easy walking. You can spend hours here, and who could blame you. It's teaming with wildlife. It's very peaceful here as well. My wife and I go as often as we can. Also very nice wild flowers as well as planted ones. So bring a picnic and a camera. My suggestion to you is to visit the small house in the center. Very cool memorabilia, and pick up a map, then take west trail through the field all the way around until it starts to come around to the RIGHT where it meets south trail. It doesn't show the pond on the map but it is there. A sweet display of the Great Blue Heron and baby chick's. Also pet friendly (on a...

Great place to walk around for a bit and visit the old house foundations and learn a bit about the history of the village. Be aware that signage and trail markage is poor and this was a bit of a bummer for me. A few objects outside the Gould house seemed interesting but there was nothing/no one around to tell us what they had been used for. I guess the groundskeeper/owner of the Gould house wasn't there when we were (1 pm on a Saturday) and that was disappointing as we couldn't go inside the restored house. All in all I enjoyed the walk and seeing the...

I saw Monsoon Center and thought I was gonna enjoy feeling the full power of a monsoon straight in my face. However when I actually got here there was little to offer in hopes of a monsoon. I mean there is only a run down village here. Maybe it shows the aftermath of a monsoon. However either way it was very disappointing. But there was several doggos here and they were very nice. So I will rate 2 star...