Camping in the "Wilderness"

Jason decided he wanted to take the boys camping over Labor Day so we drove up to Massachusetts to drop me off at Aunt Kristie's for some girl time.

This being the very populated east coast, there are very few areas to camp that don't involve paying for a small patch of dirt next to 30 RVs and having electricity and running water at your site. Jason wanted to give the boys a "wilderness" experience, but there wasn't anything close, so he and Aunt Kristie hatched up a plan.

Kristie's house backs up to a conservation area in Concord and her own property goes back quite far into the forest, so Jason decided to camp in her backyard! He went out exploring the backyard and found a place on her property where they couldn't see the house at all and then he found a way they could "hike" in.

Kristie, Lacey, and I drove Jason and the boys around Acton and Concord for about 20 minutes and told them they were on the way to their camp area. We dropped them off at a trail head for the Concord Conservation area (about a mile from Kristie's house.) and dropped them off. They hiked in for about an hour and then "found" a great place to camp.
It was great because they could light a fire without a problem on private property, and the boys had no idea they weren't in the forest somewhere.