former Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, former Middlesex Central Railroad
Maintained by
Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, Cambridge
Website
http://minutemanbikeway.org/
Trail map
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Minuteman Bikeway
Legend
to Reformatory Branch Rail Trail
South Road
Bedford Depot Park
Narrow Gauge Rail Trail
Elm Brook
Wiggins Avenue
Bedford
Lexington
Hartwell Avenue
to Hanscom AFB
I-95 / Route 128
Route 4 /
Route 225
Bedford Street
Revere Street
Camellia Place│Hancock Avenue
Lexington Depot
Woburn Street
Pierce's Bridge (Maple Street)
Arlington’s Great Meadows trails
Sickle Brook/Mill Brook
Lexington
Arlington
Drake Road
to Arlington Reservoir Area
Park Avenue
Lowell Street
Forest Street
Ryder Street
Brattle Street
Grove Street
US 3
Massachusetts Avenue
Spy Pond Field
Spy Pond
Linwood Street
Lake Street
Alewife Brook Greenway
Route 2
Arlington
Cambridge
Fitchburg Cutoff Path
Alewife Linear Park
Alewife station
MBTA Red Line
The Minuteman Bikeway, also known as the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway, is a 10-mile (16-kilometre)[1] paved multi-use rail trail located in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. It runs from Bedford to Alewife station, at the northern end of the Red Line in Cambridge, passing through the towns of Lexington and Arlington along the way. Also along the route are several notable regional sites, including Alewife Brook Reservation, the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum, Spy Pond, "Arlington’s Great Meadows" (actually located in Lexington), the Battle Green in Lexington, and Hanscom Air Force Base.
At its Cambridge terminus, the bikeway connects with four other bike paths:
the Fitchburg Cutoff Path going west
the Alewife Linear Park which, in turn, leads east to the Somerville Community Path.
the Alewife Brook Greenway going northwest, a connection to the Mystic River bike path following Alewife Brook.[2] The Alewife Brook extension received $4M from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as the "Minuteman Bikepath Connector" project.[3]
a sidewalk path going south to Fresh Pond Reservation and the Watertown Cambridge Greenway
The Somerville Community Path was extended to downtown Boston in the summer of 2023, creating a much larger continuous bikeway accessible from the Minuteman.[4]
At the Bedford end, the Minuteman Bikeway connects with the Narrow Gauge Rail Trail and the Reformatory Branch Rail Trail.[5]
^Some sources list it erroneously as 11 miles. The confusion arises because the mile marker at the beginning of the trail in Bedford is 1 instead of 0. Wikipedia editors have measured the distance as shown on maps and in Google Earth, and it appears to be 10 miles to within a few hundredths of a mile. For further verification, see: Project for Public Spaces Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine or About the Lexington Branch
^"Alewife Brook Greenway Corridor Improvement Project". Town of Arlington, MA. July 11, 2012. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
^"Patrick-Murray Administration Obligates 100% of ARRA Highway Funding One Month Ahead of Schedule". 2010-02-10. Archived from the original on 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
^"Somerville's Community Path Extension Is Open - Streetsblog Massachusetts". mass.streetsblog.org. 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
^"Rail-Trails at Bedford Depot Park". www.bedforddepot.org.
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