ICYMI: Walk, Explore The Boston Worcester Airline Trail

WESTBOROUGH, MA — Explore the multi-use Boston Worcester Air Line Trail and share your opinions and experience on rail trail building.

Interested folks are invited Thursday, April 20, to explore the planned multi-use Boston Worcester Air Line Trail. For trail developers, share your expertise about community rail trail building. For other interested individuals, learn what Westborough is doing and how you can potentially apply what you learn to your community.

The Boston Worcester Air Line Trail is a community led effort to build a multi-use trail from Framingham to Worcester with linkages to many other trail projects in the region. The project will convert the abandoned trolley into a pedestrian and bike path providing both an alternate transportation route and a linear park.

The walk will start at Penta Communications, 208 Turnpike Road, Westborough, at 10 a.m. and heads through the woods on the old rail right of way. It should take about two hours. Walking shoes are highly recommended. A shuttle is offered for both a shorter walk of roughly 1.5 miles and a longer walk of three miles along the right-of-way.

Light mid-morning fare will be served.