Charles River Link Trail Natick and Dover.

The Charles River Link Trail leaves the quiet semi rural South Natick roadways at Pegan Hill.

Charles River Link Trail Wellesley MA. Sudbury Aqueduct Part 2.

Upon re-entering Wellesley at Great Plain Avenue, the Charles River Link Trail also rejoins the Sudbury Aqueduct berm.

Bay Circuit Trail Ipswich Branch Part 3. Bradley Palmer State Park.

Bradley Palmer State Park is a centerpiece of several large parcels left by a parent of the modern multinational corporation, Bradley F. Palmer. 

It meets the Ipswich Branch of the Bay Circuit Trail at a junction with Highland Road where it brings the trail north from the Pingree Woodlands.

Bay Circuit Trail Ipswich Branch Part 2. The Pingree Woodlands.

Upon passing south from Appleton Grass Rides, the Ipswich Branch of the Bay Circuit Trail passes through a property of the Harvard Forestry School.

It meets the Pingree Woodland at a small pond equipped with a device called a beaver deceiver designed to discourage dam making.

Bay Circuit Trail: Ipswich Branch Part 1. Appleton Farms and Grass Rides.

The Ipswich Branch of the Bay Circuit Trail currently begins at the main entrance of Appleton Farms in Ipswich. It aims to ultimately begin at Crane Beach and that segment is in various stages of completion.

It initially passes through the working farm element with crop fields giving way to pastures.

Bay Circuit Trail : Sharon MA Beaver Brook.

Beaver Brook carries the Bay Circuit Trail south of Moose Hill and the trail meanders wonderfully through it.

It passes  along the Boston to New York passenger rail corridor offering glimpses of Amtrak and commuter rail.

Bay Circuit Trail Sherborn MA Rocky Narrows.

Rocky Narrows is a venerable and stunning bit of the Bay Circuit where the Charles River is squeezed by stone.  

If you only had a few parts of the Bay Circuit Trail to visit, this deserves to be high on the list.

Urban Aspects: East Boston Amenities..

Belle Isle Marsh Reservation is at the northern edge of East Boston on the border with Revere and Winthrop.

Constitution Beach is to the south and overlooks Logan Airport.

Andover Trail Annals: Shawsheen River Greenway.

The Shawsheen River Greenway is an Andover Village Improvement Society trail along the river from Ballardvale to Andover Center.

Heading north from Ballardvale, it initially passes through the Vale Reservation.

Urban Aspects; Cambridge MA Alewife Brook Reservation and Beyond.

Barring unforeseeable catastrophe, I'll probably be able to finish the Bay Circuit Trail content project by this time next year.

Users will then have a workable set of reference videos and related content at a fairly granular level.

Mass Central Rail Trail. Waltham MA

After leaving off in Belmont, the Central Massachusetts Railroad remnant picks up at Beaver Street in Waltham where Beaver Brook threads through it at several points.

If the Somerville and Cambridge segments are showcases for state of the art linear park sections, the Waltham portions are more mysterious.

Charles River Link Trail Medfield MA.

The southern end of the Charles River Link Trail meets the Bay Circuit Trail after passing through wilds around the grounds of the decommissioned Medfield State Hospital now gradually becoming part of Medfield State Forest.

The trailhead on the eastern side is in Dover just to the north of the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School.

Bay Circuit Trail: Callahan State Park.

Callahan State Park is like Borderlands in that it occupies two towns, Framingham and Marlborough.

The Bay Circuit Trail meets it coming in from the north after passing through the Sudbury Valley Trustees parcel called the Welch Reservation.

Urban Aspects: Medford MA Shepherd Brooks Estate.

The Shepherd Brooks Estate is another era's country house owned by the prominent Brooks family.

This is one of the more amusing things I learn as I sift through layers of current and past infrastructure. To Longfellow or Brooks, Wellesley or north Medford was as rural as the White Mountains might be today.

Mystic Link Trail : Mystic Lakes.

The northward lacing of bikeways along the Mystic River watershed clings closely to the charming Mystic Lakes in the passage from Medford to Winchester before arriving at the mouth of the Aberjona River.

It is an older parkway system made by the now vanquished MDC.

Urban Aspects. Watertown Branch Rail Trail Conversion.

The Watertown Branch railroad line served the Watertown Arsenal and made a run toward the Waltham border.

It veered away from the Fitchburg Line near Sherman Street in Cambridge and followed Fresh Pond along its eastern side before turning toward Watertown.

Urban Aspects Cambridge MA Alewife Bike Hub.

The Alewife Station area is a well designed hub where bikeways meet. 

The Mystic Link comes in from the north via Alewife Brook.

Bay Circuit Trail: Ipswich MA Prospect Hill to Linebrook Woods.

The enthusiasm Ipswich evinces for the Bay Circuit Trail and its own extensive trail system is noticeable as soon as you cross the border in the north.

It is one of the more exciting aspects of Essex County, a convergence of astute organizations collaborating at adding to the value of a region covering everything from heritage facets to critical ecology research in the Great Marsh.

The Neponset River Greenway Revisited: Dorchester and Milton.

I first began exploring this river last year and readily determined that it is worthy of greater recognition.

The Neponset River Greenway is a work in progress with some significant completed sections.

Bay Colony Rail Trail Needham MA.

The Bay Colony Railroad was a short line between Newton and Milford MA with a section shared by the Needham commuter rail line.

It was originally part of the NY/New Haven system and then ended up as a bit of Conrail.