Dungeon Rock located in Lynn Woods offers a rather amazing caving experience in a place you wouldn't normally expect.
From the Great Woods Road Entrance, you follow Cooke Road up to a beautiful Stone Tower that offers great views of the city of Boston and surrounding area. Recently renovated, a spiral staircase takes you up three floors to an elevation of 255 ft where you can look out all 360 degrees. Nearby you can notice another tower in the distance. The old steel fire tower is no longer accessible from the ground level (the first level of stairs has been taken down) but if you decide to climb it watch your step, as it shakes and many of the steps are missing or rusted through.
If you continue from the Stone Tower on Cooke Road a few minutes further onto Dungeon Road, you will eventually come upon a hill that is dominated by some larger boulders. These rocks offer some fun climbing along with some bouldering around the outside, but the real excitement is what lies inside.
Dungeon Rock unlike many cave formations has a unique history as it is man made. Click here to learn a little more about the legend behind this cave.
If you plan on exploring the cave make sure to bring along some flashlights because as soon as you pass the mouth of the entrance and descend the staircase you'll be quickly absorbed into the pitch darkness.
Inside the cave, you'll immediately notice how large it is, wide enough for a few people to walk across with plenty of head room. As you travel deeper into the cave, the way gets smaller and the ground rockier. If you make it down to the bottom, you'll notice that the trail suddenly drops into water and ends.
A park ranger who we spoke to on our way out said they did pump out the water once and the cave did not continue much further, however if you throw a rock into the water, you'll hear how it seems to descend much deeper than where the path ends.
Links: map of Lynn Woods
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