Welcome to the

Keystone Arches Web Site.

The Arches were named to the'1000 Great Places in MA' visitor's bureau list. 

Out of 12,000 nominations.

Below are 6 Views from above the Keystone Arches

used by permission from

Sam Mazzaferro

of

West Branch Aerial Photography

ARCH PRINTS AVAILABLE

The Chester Foundation is offering a series of affordably priced limited and open edition watercolor prints by renowned artist, Steve Hamlin of Huntington of the magnificent Keystone Arches of Chester, Middlefield and Becket.  A portion of each sale is being generously donated by Hamlin to the Foundation for the upkeep of the Chester Railway Station on Prospect St. in Chester.

Call 413.354.7878 for more information.

Painting 1

Painting 2

Painting 3

Western Mass Climbing Coalition donating their time to clear invasive and damaging vegetation from the western face of the big Arch.  They will be returning in the spring to do the other side and both sides of the 65' Arch.  Anyone interested in working helping to remove and pile the brush they cut will be very welcome. 

The next WMCC workday is on Sat., Aug 16th.

Contact Meredyth Babcock at: 413.623.2070

or

Email: volunteer@wildscenicwestfieldriver.org

Friends of the Keystone Arches, Inc. is announcing they have gotten permission from MA Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife to build a short trail along Walker Brook in Chester on the JJ Kelly Conservation Area.  It will follow about a mile of roadbed of the Chester & Becket Railroad a one-time granite hauler, past a wooden trestle and remnants of the Hampden Emery Plant to a nice overlook of the brook atop a granite bridge abutment.

The Chester & Becket Trail and the Keystone Arch Bridges Trail will be the only two formal trails on DFW land in the Western District.  Trails are usually the province of the Dept. of Conservation & Recreation.  The success of the Arch Trail weighed favorably in the decision.  The trail is in the early developmental stage, but it’s never too early to hear from interested volunteers.  Please visit: www.KeystoneArches.org   write:  P O Box 276, Huntington, MA 01050 or call:  (413) 354-7752.               

Here members of the Friends, volunteers and faculty from Putnam Vocational H.S. clear the trail.
The trail is dedicated to Jim O'Brien, former teacher at Putnam.

Railroad to the Moon

The First Mountain Railroad

Thank you for supporting us at the

Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show

at the Big E complex in West Springfield.

If you missed it, look us up next January.

Visit Our Sister Site and Railroad Museum

Chester Railway Station & Museum.

10 Prospect Street

Chester, Massachusetts 01011

(413)-354-7878

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 by

Friends of the Keystone Arches, Inc