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Massachusetts 

Ashuwillticook Rail Trail

11.9 miles in the Berkshires. Follows MA 8 through the Hoosic River valley between Lanesborough and Adams.

Assabet River Rail Trail

8.6 miles from Marlborough to Acton, a midpoint dirt road gap connects five old mill towns.

Blackstone River Greenway

26.6 miles path connected by on-road routes between South Worcester to Providence, RI.

Border to Boston Trail

10.7 miles between Peabody, Danvers, Topsfield, and Boxford in northeastern MA.  

Bruce Freeman Rail Trail

11.7 miles of paved asphalt trail from Lowell to Acton.

Canalside Rail Trail

3.6 miles near Deerfield along the Connecticut River.

Cape Cod Canal Bikeway

13.9 miles of dirt roads on either side of the waterway between the mainland and Cape Cod.

Cape Cod Rail Trail

27.5 miles between Yarmouth and Orleans. Completely paved and mostly flat.

Charles River Bike Path

22.9 miles from Boston to western suburbs.

Connecticut Riverwalk and Bikeway

5.4 miles from Springfield to Agawam, with an on-road gap in the middle.

Independence Greenway

5.3 miles in Essex, following the Ipswich River.

Manhan Rail Trail

9.6 miles between Easthampton and Northampton.

Marblehead Rail-Trail

4 miles between Swampscott and Salem, with Marblehead in the middle.

Minuteman Commuter Bikeway

10.1 miles from Cambridge to Bedford. One of the nation’s most popular trail trails! 

Mystic River Greenway

4 miles from Assembly Square in Somerville to Arlington near the Minuteman Bikeway. 

Nashua River Rail Trail

12.3 miles from Ayer, MA across state lines to Nashua, NH. 

Neponset River Greenway

8.2 miles directly south of Boston. 

North Central Pathway

8.9 miles from Winchedon to Gardner in, you guessed it, the northern central part of Massachusetts.

Northern Strand Community Trail

8 miles from Everett to Lynn in Boston’s North Shore. 

Old Colony Rail Trail

8 miles in the “elbow” of Cape Cod, Chatham to Harwich. 

Phoenix Bike Trail

4 miles from Fairhaven seaport towards the east. 

Province Lands Bike Trail

7.7 miles among the sand dunes at the northern tip of Cape Cod.  

Shining Sea Bikeway

10.7 miles from Falmouth to Woods Hole in Cape Cod. 

South Bay Harbor Trail

3.8 miles connecting Boston neighborhoods - Roxbury, South End, Chinatown, and Fort Port Channel - to Boston Harbor.

Southwest Corridor Park

4.1 miles from downtown Boston to Jamaica Plain (also known as Pierre Lallement Bike Path). 

Southwick Rail Trail

6.5 miles from MA/CT state line to Westfield. 

Spicket River Greenway

3.5 miles along the revitalized Lawrence waterway.

Upper Charles Trail

13.2 miles through towns south of Framingham. 



New Hampshire

Mine Falls Park

9.7 miles along the Nashua River in NH.

Northern Rail Trail

57.5 miles between Lebanon and Boscawen in NH.

Rhode Island

Washington Secondary Bike Path

19.2 miles from Providence, RI to the south and west. 

East Bay Bike Path

14.3 miles from Providence, RI to Bristol along the harbor.