![]() Central Rail Trail near Hammond Street in Waltham. Newly-planted trees and shrubs line the new segment of the Mass. ![]() ![]() This roughly 2.5-mile segment sports some fresh asphalt and hundreds of newly-planted trees and shrubs. Central Rail Trail is nearing completion in Waltham (this trail segment is annotated with a 1 in the map at the top of this article). Central in WalthamĨ miles to the east, another major segment of the Mass. Recommended Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail The Mass. To get from here to Waltham, I relied on advice from Streetsblog contributor Juliana Cherston's 2021 travel guide to this area: In the meantime, there are still some nice back roads that provide decent alternative routes. When that's done, the Department of Conservation and Recreation will pave a new trail on top of the freshly-cleared railbed. Crews are currently installing a new underground power line on either side of this junction with the Bruce Freeman Trail. Central Rail Trail corridor between Sudbury and Hudson is a much more active construction site. Central Rail Trail, which will continue west from this point to Hudson on the right is the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, which is being extended from its current southern terminus in Concord. Central Rail Trail, running from the left edge of the photo to the lower right, with the Bruce Freeman trail, which runs from the bottom-left edge to the upper right: Erosion-control fencing marks the boundaries of two trail corridors under construction in Sudbury. Central Rail Trail, the old ties are gone and the trail looks almost ready for paving. Most of the rail corridor is walkable, but still has railroad ties that make it too rough for bicycle riding.įurther south, though, near the Boston Post Road and the intersection with the Mass. The Bruce Freeman project has only been underway for a few months, so most of the corridor through Sudbury still looks like this: The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail corridor near its crossing of Pantry Road in Sudbury in June 2023. (3): A 5-mile extension of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail from Concord to Sudbury. (2): A 7.5-mile MCRT connection from Sudbury to Hudson. (1): a 2.8-mile section of the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail (MCRT) through Waltham. Central and Bruce Freeman Rail Trail projects under construction. However, construction is now underway to extend the Bruce Freeman 5 miles further south through the town of Sudbury (marked with a 3 in the map below), where it will intersect with a new segment of the Mass. Construction workers are currently clearing the way for a 3.5-mile extension of the trail beyond this underpass into Sudbury. The Bruce Freeman Trail currently runs from Lowell to Powder Mill Road in Concord, about half a mile from the Concord-Sudbury town line: The current southern terminus of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, at Powder Mill Road in Concord. On Wednesday, your StreetsblogMASS editor took the long way home from the MassTrails grant announcements in Billerica to check out the progress on the extension of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail from Concord into Sudbury, and, a few miles to the east, on the Waltham section of the Mass.
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