Beyond The Greenway Ride: Earth Day Bike Ride

Saturday, April 26, Beyond the Greenway Ride (for Earth Day) 10:00 am, Fowl Meadow parking lot on Brush Hill Road just south of the Neponset Valley Parkway, just east of Paul’s Bridge and the Boston/Milton border.

We’ll head the opposite direction from last month,following Burma Road to the Bridge to Nowhere, then going south on beautiful Elm St. in Canton, ending with views of the Blue Hills and Boston from The Trustees of Reservations’ new Signal Hill Reservation. It’s not a very long ride, around 10 miles, but the first couple of miles are off-road through the Fowl Meadow section of the DCR’s Blue Hills Reservation.

Hybrid or mountain bikes are recommended, though Burma Road has a hard enough surface that it has been ridden with skinny tires. Helmets are required.

The ride is cosponsored by MassBike’s Metro Boston Chapter, the Boston Natural Areas Network, an affiliate of The Trustees of Reservations and the NGO force behind the Neponset Trail, and the Neponset River Watershed Association, which works to protect and restore the Neponset River.

If it’s muddy, we’ll take Rt. 138 in at least one direction, which would add a mile each way. We could also walk Burma Road, if it’s not *that* muddy. It would be nice to get back to the start in time to make the 1:30 talk about local impacts of climate change at the Arnold Arboretum.

If it is raining hard, we won’t ride at all. There is no rain date set, but contact me about another date.

There is more information at

http://www.masspaths.org/rides/SignalHill2008.html

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