April 29, 2020 - Reformatory Branch Trail II

Welcome to Susan's Bay Circuit Diary! This blog follows my adventures with my dog Sulu hiking the Bay Circuit Trail.  Feel free to subscribe (see the little "subscribe" oval above). The rest of the past posts can be found using the little menu on the left.  If you are curious how this all started, go here.

For reasons unknown to me, the BCT looks like a Y in map 6.  There’s a fork in Concord center and the left/west fork goes to Carlisle and the right/east fork goes to Bedford.  A chunk of the Bedford arm uses the Reformatory Branch rail trail, an unpaved (great for bikejoring) trail that goes alongside the otherwise dog-hostile Great Meadows National Wildlife Reserve.  Having sampled the delights of the Reformatory Branch, I invited Walter to join me for the second leg.  Because the weather was crap when I visited the rail trail for the first time, I underestimated the popularity of the trail on a sunny day.  So many people! Cars were backed up to park at the Great Meadows lot (never mind the pandemic).  We ducked and weaved and found some sections to be less peopley than others.  A delightful ride. Top nature sighting: bluebirds in the meadow near where we parked.

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