List of rail trails in Massachusetts

This list of rail trails in Massachusetts lists former railroad right-of-ways in Massachusetts that have been converted to trails for public use and proposed rail trails.

Established rail trails

• Alewife Linear Park (Cambridge)
• Ashuwillticook Rail Trail (11 miles in North Berkshires)
• Assabet River Rail Trail southwest end (5.8 miles, Hudson to Marlboro) completed
• Bedford Narrow Gauge Trail (Bedford)
• Blackstone River Bikeway (near Worcester)
• Bruce Freeman Rail Trail (Lowell to Framingham)
• Canalside Rail Trail (Turners Falls)
• Cape Cod Rail Trail (Dennis to Wellfleet)
• Clipper City Rail Trail (Newburyport)
• Danvers Rail Trail (Danvers)
• Fitchburg Cutoff Path (Belmont to Cambridge)
• Manhan Rail Trail (Easthampton)
• Marblehead Bike Path (Marblehead)
• Methuen Rail Trail () (Methuen)
• Milford Rail Trail (Milford)
• Minuteman Bikeway (Bedford to Cambridge)
• Nashua River Rail Trail (Ayer to Nashua, New Hampshire)
• North Central Pathway (Gardner to Winchendon)
• North Plymouth Rail Trail (Plymouth)
• Northampton Ryan Rail Trail
• Norwottuck Rail Trail (Northampton to (Belchertown)
• Old Colony Rail Trail (Harwich and Chatham)
• Old Eastern Marsh Rail Trail (Salisbury)
• Phoenix Rail Trail (Fairhaven)
• Reformatory Branch Rail Trail (Bedford to Concord)
• Salisbury Point Ghost Trail (Salisbury)
• Shining Sea Bikeway (Falmouth to Woods Hole)
• Somerville Community Path
• Southern New England Trunkline Trail
• Southwick Rail Trail (Southwick)

In planning/under construction

• Bay Circuit Trail
• Bay Colony Rail Trail (Newton to Medfield)
• Coastal Trails Coalition Rail Trail
• Cochituate Rail Trail (Natick Center to the Saxonville section of Framingham, crossing Lake Cochituate)
• East Coast Greenway
• Farmington Canal Trail
• Fitchburg-Leominster Trail
• Mass Central Rail Trail (Northampton, working toward Boston) a.k.a. Wayside Trail
• Northern Strand Community Trail
• Squannacook Rail Trail
• Wakefield-Lynnfield Trail
• Watertown Branch Railroad