Trail hike/run near campus?

mebble
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:21:16 +0000

Hi, you won’t find miles of continuous dirt trails from Harvard, but a close approximation would be what is known as the Emerald Necklace. I don’t have all the details, but if you look at a map you’ll see that from Harvard you would run along the Charles, cross a bridge, run along the Fens to the Riverway to Jamaica Pond to the Arboretum to Forest Hills Cemetary to Franklin Park, all in Boston. It’s a beautiful area. On the running/bike paths which are paved, you can typically run alongside which would be dirt. Both the Arboretum and Franklin Park are large (200+ acres each), so there is plenty of open space to make your own trail.

Another alternative would be to run West along the Charles River. Again, I think there would be paved paths but you could run alongside on the dirt.

Another great path is the Minuteman Trail, which goes many miles north of Cambridge from Arlington through Lexington and Concord.