Camp Kiwanee

Camp Kiwanee is a historic town-owned campground and function venue on Maquan Pond in Hanson, with wooded trails and a genuinely storied past. It opened in 1930 as Camp Kiwanis, later becoming Camp Kiwanee ("spirit of joy and youth"), and the Town of Hanson purchased the property in 1979. Needles Lodge, the camp headquarters, sits atop a glacial ridge with a commanding view of the pond, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The trails here connect into a longer Native American travel route that historically linked the North River and Taunton River watersheds.