Race Point Lighthouse beyond beach grass and sand dunes near Provincetown on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Walks and hikes in Massachusetts

35 routes with stories of the places you pass, narrated and set to original music. Walk, run or ride them.

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Massachusetts packs a lot into a small state. Boston gives you the Freedom Trail, the Emerald Necklace and the Charles River Esplanade, and the Minuteman Bikeway runs out to Bedford. On Cape Cod there's the Great Island Trail and Race Point Beach, the North Shore has Halibut Point and the Cape Ann loop, and out west you can climb Mount Greylock on the Appalachian Trail.

Many of the stories are about beginnings: Paul Revere's house and the Old North Church, Lexington Green and the North Bridge at Concord, Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II. Salem's witch trials and Lowell's canals come into it too.

Routes35

Towns30

Distance1.5 to 28.9 km

By bike35

Towns with several routes

Each has its own page, with the routes that start nearby.

Hingham 3 Boston 2 Gloucester 2 Nahant 2

All 35 routes in Massachusetts

Back Bay · Beacon Hill · Beverly · Bliss Corner · Boston · Concord · East Somerville · Gloucester · Harvard · Head of Westport · Hingham · Hull · Jeffries Point · Lower Allston · Manchester-by-the-Sea · Marblehead · Nahant · Newburyport · Plymouth · Quincy · Readville · Reservoir · Rockport · Salem · Saugus · Scituate · South Boston · Ten Hills · VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Campus · Wellesley

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Walks and hikes in Massachusetts

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All 35 routes in Massachusetts

Run the South Boston Waterfront route, passing the harbor.

Run the Marblehead route in Marblehead, passing the harbor.

Explore Boston's Back Bay tour, passing brownstone streets.

Run the Battle Road Trail in Concord, passing battle sites.

Run the East Boston Airport route, passing the waterfront.

Explore Harvard and MIT in Boston, passing campuses.

Run the Mystic Lakes and Northern Strand Trail.

Run the Lynn Woods route in Saugus, passing wooded hills.

Run the North Shore route to Plum Island's open space.

Run the Emerald Necklace parks through Back Bay.

Explore the Beverly tour in Beverly, passing the harbor.

Run the Northern Strand trail from Everett to Lynn.

Run the Rockport route along the seaside harbour.

Run the Boston South End tour through Beacon Hill.

Run the apple orchard route in Harvard, passing orchards.

Explore Gloucester Harbor out to Eastern Point.

Run the Gloucester route in Gloucester, passing the harbor.

Run the scenic Magnolia waterfront in Gloucester.

Run the Salem runseeing tour past its historic sites.

Run the Blue Hills Reservation trails in open space.

Run the Cohasset route along the scenic South Shore.

Run the Dartmouth Road through Bliss Corner.

Run the Hull waterfront past the seaside shore.

Run the Plymouth runseeing tour past its waterfront.

Run the Quincy Shore Drive along the seaside coast.

Run the Scituate route to its scenic lighthouse.

Run the Westport around the Head of Westport.

Run the World's End trails along Hingham's peninsula.

Run the Charles River paths through the Brockton campus.

Run the Nantasket Beach route along the Hingham coast.

Run the Lake Waban route around Wellesley College.

Cycle the Charles River route in Reservoir along the river.

Explore the Freedom Trail in Boston, passing colonial sites.

Run the Nahant tour along the North Shore coast.

Run the Nahant waterfront route past Swampscott's shoreline.

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