Park Details

Name:	Borderland State Park
Address:	259 Massapoag Ave.
	Sharon
	Michigan
	02067
Phone:	508-238-6566
Fax:	508-230-7193
Email:	borderland.park@state.ma.us
URL:	www.mass.gov

Category

• State park or recreation area managed by a state agency

General Description

Borderland is one of the most historically significant tracts of publicly owned land in the Commonwealth. Created in the early 1900s by artist and suffragist Blanche Ames and her botanist husband Oakes, Borderland offers many of the same pleasures that the Ames family enjoyed: walking and horseback riding on woodland trails, fishing and canoeing in the ponds, or in winter ice-skating and sledding.

The Ames'' home, a three-storey stone mansion built in 1910, still stands. Its twenty rooms are furnished much as they were when the Ameses lived here; many of Blanche Ames'' paintings grace the walls. Their illustrious histories remain in the house which is open for scheduled tours.

Accessibility Features

General Accessibility Features

• Accessible bathrooms
• Accessible routes from accessible camp sites to accessible comfort stations/restrooms
• Accessible trails
• Accessible picnic tables/areas
• Accessible fishing locations

Amenities and Lodging

• Accessible gift shops

Information and Interpretation Features

• Nature centers, visitor centers and/or museums that are accessible for people using mobility devices
• Interior exhibits with tactile opportunities (such as tactile maps, models and/or objects)
• Exhibits located on accessible routes
• Exhibits with tactile opportunities (such as tactile maps, models, and/or objects) on accessible routes
• Park brochures readily available in alternate formats (braille, large print, audio, computer disc)