List of rail trails in Massachusetts
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This list of rail trails in Massachusetts lists former railroad right-of-ways in Massachusetts that have been converted to trails for public use and proposed rail trails.
Established rail trails
- Alewife Linear Park (Cambridge)
- Ashuwillticook Rail Trail (11 miles in North Berkshires)
- Bedford Narrow Gauge Trail [1] (Bedford)
- Blackstone River Bikeway (near Worcester)
- Bruce Freeman Rail Trail [2] (Lowell to Framingham)
- Canalside Rail Trail (Turners Falls)
- Cape Cod Rail Trail (Dennis to Wellfleet)
- Clipper City Rail Trail [3] (Newburyport)
- Danvers Rail Trail [4] (Danvers)
- Fitchburg Cutoff Path (Belmont to Cambridge)
- Manhan Rail Trail (Easthampton)
- Marblehead Bike Path [5] (Marblehead)
- Methuen Rail Trail ([6]) (Methuen)
- Milford Rail Trail [7] (Milford)
- Minuteman Bikeway (Bedford to Cambridge)
- Nashua River Rail Trail (Ayer to Nashua, New Hampshire)
- North Central Pathway [8] (Gardner to Winchendon)
- North Plymouth Rail Trail (Plymouth)
- Northampton Ryan Rail Trail [9]
- Norwottuck Rail Trail (Northampton to (Belchertown)
- Old Colony Rail Trail (Harwich and Chatham)
- Old Eastern Marsh Rail Trail [10] (Salisbury)
- Phoenix Rail Trail (Fairhaven) [11]
- Reformatory Branch Rail Trail (Bedford to Concord) [12]
- Salisbury Point Ghost Trail [13] (Salisbury)
- Shining Sea Bikeway (Falmouth to Woods Hole)
- Somerville Community Path
- Southern New England Trunkline Trail
- Southwick Rail Trail (Southwick)[14]
In planning/under construction
- Assabet River Rail Trail
- Bay Circuit Trail
- Bay Colony Rail Trail [15] (Newton to Medfield)
- Coastal Trails Coalition Rail Trail [16]
- Cochituate Rail Trail [17] (Natick Center to the Saxonville section of Framingham, crossing Lake Cochituate)
- East Coast Greenway
- Farmington Canal Trail
- Fitchburg-Leominster Trail [18]
- Mass Central Rail Trail [19] (Northampton, working toward Boston) a.k.a. Wayside Trail [20] [21]
- Northern Strand Community Trail
- Squannacook Rail Trail [22]
- Wakefield-Lynnfield Trail [23]
- Watertown Branch Railroad
