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Goose Pond via Southwick Rail Trail is an 11.4-mile out-and-back near Little River, MA. The route reaches Goose Pond at the turnaround, 5.7 miles in. It is mostly level, with 54 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi180 – 272 ft11.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Columbia Greenway Rail Trail 42.08814, -72.74462
Nearest town Little River, MA

Directions

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Goose Pond via Southwick Rail Trail

11.4 mi · ▲ 54 ft · 3 hr 50 min

Elevation 182–272 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Columbia Greenway Rail Trail · 42.08814, -72.74462

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:48 AM · sunset 8:08 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Southwick Rail Trail, heading S.
  2. 5.2 miTurn right, heading W.
  3. 0.1 miTurn left, heading SW.
  4. 0.4 miReach Goose Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.4 miTurn right, heading N.
  6. 5.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

91% paved7% gravel2% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 5:48 AMSunset 8:08 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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