Our Rail Trail

Around the corner and across the street from our house, there is a nondescript dirt trail that leads to one of my favorite places in this town of ours: the Central Massachusetts Rail Trail.

Our section of the trail stretches two plus miles and is just a small part of a 104 mile railroad line that once connected Boston to Northampton. The hope is to someday connect all of Massachusetts with this recreational throughway, but for now individual communities along the old railway’s length are working to dig out and open up the bits they can. Where we live, the Central Mass Rail Trail is tirelessly supported and cared for by an amazing grassroots organization called Wachusett Greenways. They rock.

I took this photo on Tuesday evening, which was stormy here. It is unusual for the path to be this deserted … but it was dreamy to have the silent woods to ourselves.

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