Good gravel/trail rides in the Metro West Boston area?
06-27-20, 05:26 AM
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Good gravel/trail rides in the Metro West Boston area?
Just got a new gravel bike and looking for some spots in the area to ride. Any thoughts? I am in Natick, MA.
06-29-20, 01:22 PM
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How rough of a trail are you willing to handle? There's not a whole lot of flat-ish, unpaved roads around here. From my stack, Minuteman NP in Lexington/Lincoln is great, Reformatory Branch trail in Bedford, Great Brook Farm SP, trails west and south of Walden Pond (Walden/Adams woods) a little rougher. You would obviously have to drive for these. There's the Bay Circuit trail (https://www.baycircuit.org/maps-guides/) which gets quite rooty at times (I've done it parts of it on 40mm and it can get unpleasant).
The Western Greenway in Waltham is popular with the gravel crowd https://walthamlandtrust.org/trail-guides/ gets rougher the further south you go.
Some of the NEMBA trails are rideable on a gravel bike. https://www.nemba.org/trails/massachusetts/noanet-woods, https://www.nemba.org/trails/massach...-needhamnewton
The Western Greenway in Waltham is popular with the gravel crowd https://walthamlandtrust.org/trail-guides/ gets rougher the further south you go.
Some of the NEMBA trails are rideable on a gravel bike. https://www.nemba.org/trails/massachusetts/noanet-woods, https://www.nemba.org/trails/massach...-needhamnewton
