The Minuteman Bikeway, the Bruce Freeman Trail and more. Plus some cool art along the Somerville Community Path.
My ears perked up when a friend told us that you can now bike from Boston to Lowell on a string of connecting trails.
It turns out that wasn’t quite true — we still had a couple of road miles. And you’ll need cue sheets, your Garmin or a helpful friend who knows the way to keep the ride going smoothly.
But it was still a great 35 miles or so.
Continue reading “We biked 35 miles from Boston to Lowell, Mass., 90% on trails”Three days, about 170 miles on the East Coast Greenway. Plus another 40 miles around Portland.
Live by the Garmin, die by the Garmin.
We certainly needed the help of our electronic gadget to find a few trails that are part of the East Coast Greenway on the second half of our P2P (Providence to Portland) adventure.
I’m especially thinking of one with an unmarked, overgrown entrance on curve of a neighborhood street and another spot where it helped navigate us from Somerville’s Assembly Point neighborhood to the start of the Bike Trail to the Sea in Everett (though we still struggled with the MBTA parking lot and roads surrounding it — how about signage for the benefit of area residents, never mind strangers like us, Everett?)
But we also opted to follow the Garmin’s directions over East Coast Greenway signs, and that led us to this “road” in North Berwick, Maine:
Oh, there’s more — the adventures of touring!
Exploring by bicycle 