On the morning of Aug. 7 a group walked around a small forested area around one of Watertown’s few wetland areas — Walker Pond.

The City purchased the property on the border with Waltham in 2023 to develop the area into a public recreation facility. On Aug. 14 the first meeting to gather input about the project will be held (see details below).

Thursday’s walk was part of Live Well Watertown’s Watertown Walks series. After strolling through nearby Gore Place, Michelle Moon, the City’s Open Space Planner, led the group across Waltham Street to the Walker Pond site.

Part of the area has a sandy pathway that sits on land owned by the Bell Watertown apartment complex, but which is open to the public, Moon said. As you walk counter clockwise, the pathway curves and then ends. From that spo

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