April 30, 2020 - Nashoba Brook

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.

Today I did the last part of the Spring Hill network of trails that I had not previously done.  I parked at the Nashoba Brook trailhead (interesting history stuff there).  It was actually a little hard to pick out the trail as BCT signs went in two directions from the trailhead yet neither seemed to go in the correct direction.  A little flailing around and consulting the BCT website (I really don’t know how hiking worked before smartphones) put me on the right path with some off-lead opportunities.  It was a pretty short piece of woods and I decided to follow the trail north onto the Bruce Freeman rail trail.  I had never heard of the Bruce Freeman rail trail before I started driving around here looking for hiking opportunities for my dog. I was so innocent once! Now I see that it’s great and I can’t wait to bring Walter to bike it with me.

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