The Lower Neponset River Trail is a
rail trail
A rail trail is a shared-use path on railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed, but may also share the right of way with active railways, light rail, or streetcar ...
running along the
Neponset River
The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its headwaters are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, near Gillette Stadium. From there, the Neponset meanders generally northeast for about to its mouth at ...
in the
Dorchester section of
Boston, Massachusetts.
[ It roughly follows the path of the eastern part of the ]Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad
The Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. It was incorporated in 1846 as a branch off the Old Colony Railroad main line from Boston to Plymouth. The 3.3 mile road was completed on December 1, 1847, from Neponset ...
from the Port Norfolk neighborhood in Dorchester to the Central Avenue T Station in Milton
Milton may refer to:
Names
* Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname)
** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
* Milton (given name)
** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
,[ passing through ]Pope John Paul II Park
Pope John Paul II Park Reservation, also known as Pope Park, is a Massachusetts state park bordering the Neponset River in the Dorchester, Massachusetts, Dorchester section of Boston. The park has been reclaimed from the former site of a landfil ...
, the Neponset Marshes, and the Lower Mills area.[
]
References
External links
Lower Neponset River Trail
Department of Conservation and Recreation
Neponset River Greenway Map
Department of Conservation and Recreation
{{Protected Areas of Massachusetts
Massachusetts natural resources
Protected areas of Massachusetts
Rail trails in Massachusetts