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Christian MilNeil

A paved path extends under an overpass in the distance alongside railroad tracks with rusty boxcars and a power line corridor, which run along the right edge of the photo. To the left is a retaining wall and some exposed rebar from an under-construction bridge abutment.

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Trails

Another Gap’s Gone On the Northern Strand Trail In Everett

Three people in construction vests walk down a long, straight paved pathway next to railroad tracks. In the distance the path ascends a ramp then curves out of sight, and beyond that is the skyline of downtown Boston.

View southeast from East Somerville Station

Study: Finishing the Mass. Central Rail Trail Could Deliver Over $200 Million In Annual Benefits

An architect's rendering shows two bridges crossing a river. The illustration of the new bridge, on the right, shows a bridge with large arches swooping over the water. The illustration is superimposed on a photograph that shows an existing, plainer railroad bridge on the right.

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Car-Free Mystic River Bridge Will Begin Construction In 2024

Fencing blocks a newly-paved trail through the woods. On the right is a tan-colored wall with no windows; on the right is a dense grove of trees. The trail disappears into the shade of a tunnel of trees in the distance.

Waltham MCRT

PHOTOS: Construction Progress On New Rail Trails In Sudbury and Waltham

A freshly-paved trail through a suburban neighborhood. Newly-planted trees line the edge of the path, and to the right is a new wooden fence. In the middle distance is an old train station with the sign "Waltham Highlands"

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MassTrails Program Announces $11 Million in Grants for 68 Trail Projects

A view down a straight pathway with a yellow line painted down its center. The path is lined with black fencing and railroad infrastructure is visible to the right. In the distance is a bridge over the tracks and an MBTA station sign, and a skyline of buildings and trees

CommunityPathOpening

Somerville’s Community Path Extension Is Open

A map of Massachusetts highlighting long-distance trails that MassDOT hopes to connect across the state. Those routes are highlighted as yellow lines and include north-south routes in the Berkshires from Pittsfield to North Adams, in the Connecticut River Valley from Westfield to Northampton and from Northampton to Springfield, two east-west routes from Palmer to Boston, a route along Cape Cod, and a network of routes to connect gateway cities in eastern Mass. to Boston.

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MassDOT Releases ‘Priority Trails Network’ Map

A paved path running through sand dunes. Two people in bikes are in the middle distance.

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Street Design

Provincetown Plans to Carve Up Its Freeway For a New Car-Free Path

A graded gravel path under construction runs underneath a highway bridge next to a concrete bridge abutment. To the right of the abutment and below the trail are some railroad tracks.

Northern Strand RevereBeach Parkway credit Bike to the Sea

Bicycling

The Northern Strand Trail Is Growing In Lynn and Everett

A map of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, extending from I-495 in the west to Waltham in the east, Framingham in the south, and Concord in the north. The Mass. Central Rail Trail corridor, highlighted in green solid lines where the trail is complete and in dotted lines to indicate incomplete trail sections, crosses the center map west to east, and the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail crosses the center of the map north to south.

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3 Major MetroWest Trail Projects Are Under Construction In 2023