By John Blombach | Assistant Editor
Next time you take your nature walk or hike up Wachusett Mountain, you may notice that there is a strange new topography. Mother nature has been busy re-engineering the trail structure as well as the summit road and parking lot at the top. Because of increased popularity, particularly on the weekend, the vehicle and foot traffic has quadrupled over the last decade, causing great concern for the stability of the soils and protection of local vegetation. Interest for the use of future generations has mandated the re-engineering of the most used tourist structures.