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  • Double Keystone Arch Bridge in Chester

    Keystone Arches Hike

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    Meeting Place: Chester Elementary School 325 Middlefield Rd,, MA 01011, Chester, Massachusetts, United States

    In the early 19th century, George Washington Whistler—father of the famed artist James McNeill Whistler—set out to build what locals jokingly called the “Railroad to the Moon.” It wasn’t a voyage to outer space, of course, but in the 1800s the idea of sending a railroad over the Berkshires felt nearly as impossible. Yet through ingenious switchbacks, […]

  • WRWA River Cleanup Spring 2026 – Westfield

    Westfield area volunteers are asked to meet at the Masonic Lodge at 72 Broad St.  A simple breakfast and coffee will be available beginning at 8:00 am.  Cleanup assignments and supplies (gloves, trash bags, and high-visibility vests if needed) will be distributed at that time.  By 9:00, groups will have departed to the various sites.  […]

    Free

  • Agawam clean up at Pynchon point circa 2010

    WRWA River Cleanup Spring 2026 – Agawam

    Volunteers for the River cleanup in Agawam will gather at 9:00 am at the Pynchon Point parking lot near the South End bridge circle on River Road.  Assignments are generally completed about 1:00 pm.  Organizers are closely watching river levels in Agawam, and the cleanup will be postponed there if conditions are not good.  For more information, […]

    Free
  • Mark Damon at the Fish Ladder in West Springfield on the Westfield River

    Fish Ladder Open House

    150 Front St West Springfield, MA 01089 150 Front St, West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

    The Fish Ladder Open House is a free event sponsored each year by the Westfield River Watershed Association (WRWA), and works in cooperation with A&D Hydro, Inc. and the Mass. Division of Fisheries and Wildlife to offer this one-day-a-year event to the public. Community members of all ages are welcome to stop by and check […]

  • Westfield River Watershed Association (WRWA) Board of Directors 2025 with a few who attended virtually missing

    WRWA Annual Meeting

    Interested in becoming a WRWA Board Member? Consider joining our annual meeting, where we review the past year, and members vote for the next year’s Board of Directors. Location TBD but we typically meet in Wilson Hall at Westfield State University.

  • River Cruise [Canceled]

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    Join the Westfield River Watershed Association for our annual River Cruise, downriver from Westfield to Robinson State Park. This is a calm section of the Westfield River with a few class I rapids, but mostly flat water with no portages. A participation fee of $20.00 per person ($15 for WRWA members) will help cover shuttle […]

    $15 – $20

  • Heather with a large pile of trash collected from the banks for the Westfield River at the West Springfield Levee

    WRWA River Cleanup Fall 2026 (9/19) – Westfield

    Join WRWA and cleanup crews across four states on Saturday, September 19 as part of the larger Connecticut River watershed Source to Sea Cleanup. Preregister if possible by contacting the local coordinator. Westfield River volunteers will gather at 9:00 a.m. meeting in Westfield in the public parking lot at the end of Meadow Street near […]

    Free

  • Heather with a large pile of trash collected from the banks for the Westfield River at the West Springfield Levee

    WRWA River Cleanup Fall 2026 (10/10) – Agawam

    Join the WRWA cleanup crew in Agawam on the Westfield River on October 10, 2016! Because the larger Connecticut River watershed Source to Sea Cleanup happens during the Eastern State Exposition (The Big E), WRWA holds this Agawam/West Springfield cleanup after the event to avoid traffic. Preregister if possible by contacting the local coordinator. Westfield […]

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