Rail-Trails New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont

by Rails-to-Trails-Conservancy

Book Overview

With 60 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 622 miles, Rail-Trails New England covers Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. This two-color book includes succinct descriptions of each trail from start to finish, plus at-a-glance summary information indicating permitted uses, surface type, length, and directions to trailheads for each trail.Every trip has a detailed map that includes start and end...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089997449X
• ISBN13: 9780899974491
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

RAIL-TRAILS New England

Very useful for planning a cycling trip!! Excellent directions to all trail heads. Have ridden many of theses trails and now have more to ride that I've missed and didn't know about. Looking forward to the premium FALL 2010 bikin' season so I can try out more rail trails. Great details in this edition. KEEP ON BIKIN' :)

New Englalnd rail history

I refer to this book when I want to know where a rail line was and who owns the tracks now. I have learned much about trains in North America.

Just as advertised

Ad said there was a small crease in the middle of the book from the printer, it was no problem considering it was greatly reduced in price. Thank you!

Easy to read & understand with mapped trails.

Very easy to read with mapped version of trails. It even gives the history of the trails.

There are now more than 13,00 miles of open rail-trails across the country.

There are now more than 13,00 miles of open rail-trails across the country. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is an organization of more than 100,000 members and a leading advocate for trail and greenway 'recycling' of obsolete railroad corridors and rights of way. The official guidebook of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, "Rail-Trails: New England" is a thoroughly 'user friendly' guide to railroad related trails in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Profusely illustrated with maps, as well as black-and-white photographs, "Rail-Trails: New England" is the perfect planning guide for biking or hiking along pathways created from unused railroad corridors that have been converted to recreational use by the public. some rail-trails are paved and run through scenic parts of New England townships, others are unpaved paths through scenic countrysides. Enhanced with detailed maps for every rail-trail (plus driving directions to trailheads), "Rail-Trails: New England" also features icons indicating each trail's use, along with succinct descriptions written by truly knowledgeable and articulate rail-trail experts. If you are planning to avail yourself of the recreational and exercise opportunities of rail-trails anywhere in the New England region, then begin with a careful browse through the pages of "Rail-Trails: New England"!