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Boston, MA: Wompatuck State Park

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Distance: 10.8 miles


Explore Wompatuck State Park on a labyrinthine trail system that showcases classic New England-style singletrack right outside Boston.
  • Power-Sucking Hill
  • Sneaky Trail Crossing
  • "Hide-n-seek" Trail Markers
  • Burbank Boulder
  • Wompy Rock Garden
  • Aaron River Reservoir
  • Technique Practice, Anyone?
  • Bridge of Virtue
  • Autumn Backdrop

Route-finding is the name of the game along this 11-mile clockwise loop through the east side of Wompatuck State Park. Following a series of trail markers, this track (cue-sheet below) is just one of many ride options available in this maze-like trail system just outside of Boston. The loop (which highlights the eastern section of the Root 66 Series Landmine Classic race course) has no fewer than 37 cue-points. Don’t be distressed if you miss one; they’re spaced very close together so backtracking is never that disheartening.

The ride itself is an intermediate route showcasing the best aspects of New England singletrack: heavy tree cover (which makes for fantastic foliage in the fall), sudden steeps and drops, rock and root gardens, power-sapping muddy stretches, and idyllic reservoir scenes. To track foliage status in the park visit the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism site, but even when the temperature drops and the leaves have fallen, the ‘Womp’ remains a go-to playground for local mountain bikers.

-Mapped by Wendy Booher, Boston LUNA Chix Women's Cycling Team

CUE SHEET (Trail markers in bold)
From Union St., turn LEFT on the paved road at E14.
At E15: LEFT
C10: Straight through intersection
C5: RIGHT
C4: RIGHT
C6: LEFT onto singletrack
C7: Cross paved road and resume singletrack on the other side.
N33: RIGHT
N32: LEFT and then immediate RIGHT (paved road)
N22: LEFT onto singletrack
N21: LEFT
N17: RIGHT
N18: RIGHT
N19: Straight through intersection
N23: RIGHT
N24: LEFT
N25: LEFT onto pavement
N30: RIGHT onto singletrack
N31: Cross paved road, ride until singletrack ends, LEFT on pavement
NS2: RIGHT onto singletrack
NS11: LEFT
NS6: LEFT
NS7: RIGHT
NS8: RIGHT
NS9: LEFT (Burbank Boulder will be on your right)
NS10: RIGHT
NS3:
Cross paved road
R1: LEFT
R2: LEFT
R3: LEFT (when you come to an unmarked, four-way singletrack intersection, stay right)
R5: Straight through intersection, when you arrive at next singletrack intersection, go LEFT, keeping the reservoir on your left until you arrive at paved road.
E17: Straight on pavement, take a left onto paved spur (there will be a left turn onto singletrack before this, don't take that). Once pavement stops, bear right on to singletrack.
E10: Cross pavement, stay on singletrack
E8: LEFT on to singletrack, when singletrack ends, take right on to pavement, then take next right at intersection.
E7: LEFT onto singletrack, bear right. Continue following singletrack to pavement.

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