The New
England Trail (NET) is an 800+ mile hiking trail which would run
from
Long
Island
Sound
to
Quebec,
through New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,
Connecticut,
and Rhode Island.
The New England Trail is a proposal to link together pre-existing trails and conservation land, creating an 800+ mile hiking trail spanning the length of New England, north to south, from the coasts of Connecticut and Rhode Island through the Connecticut River Valley and Central Massachusetts, to Mount Monadnock then north through the length of New Hampshire to Mount Megantic, Quebec. The New England Trail would have three branches, as shown in the overview map. Along with the Appalachian Trail, the Long Trail, and other trail systems, the new England Trail would serve as the "spine" for an eventual network of community trails and wildlife corridors that would extend through nearly every community in the Northeast. Potential extensions of the New England Trail route might include a trail through Canada to James Bay, creating and "Atlantic to the Arctic" greenway.
Updates and News
▪ "What is the New England Trail?" and other commonly asked questions answered here.
(PDF version of "What is the New England Trail?")
▪ Detailed Maps of the West Branch of the New England Trail in Massachusetts are available here!
▪ Half
of the proposed route of the New England Trail between Mount Monadnock and Pack Monadnock now exists as an official trail constructed by the Monadnock Conservancy; see their map here.
▪ Long distance hiker Ryan Linn through-hiked most of the proposed
route of the New England Trail from the Canadian Border south to Long Island Sound--a fantastic
accomplishment. See his trail journal here.
▪ The proposed route of the New England Trail is now hikeable
from the Cohos Trail north to Mount Megantic in Quebec! See the Cohos Trail website for
more details!
▪ The New England Trail can now be found on Facebook and Twitter! Visit us there
▪ A message from the NET editors
Photos (clockwise from top left): Ninigret Beach, Charlestown, RI; Royalston Falls, Royalston, MA; Mont St. Jopseph chapel, Mont Megantic, Quebec; view from Mt. Chocorua summit, White Mountains, NH; Chauncey Peak, Metacomet Ridge, Meriden, CT |
