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Lake Winthrop & Pleasure Point via Upper Charles Trail is a 7.9-mile out-and-back near Whitneys, MA. The route passes Pleasure Point and Lake Winthrop before reaching Pleasure Point at the turnaround, 3.9 miles in. It is mostly level, with 27 ft of elevation gain, and mostly gravel. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi157 – 220 ft8.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Upper Charles Trail 42.23968, -71.41638
Nearest town Whitneys, MA

Directions

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Lake Winthrop & Pleasure Point via Upper Charles Trail

7.9 mi · ▲ 27 ft · 2 hr 39 min

Elevation 159–220 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Upper Charles Trail · 42.23968, -71.41638

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 6:47 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Upper Charles Trail, heading E.
  2. 3.2 miPass Pleasure Point.
  3. 0.4 miSharp left onto Cemetery Run, heading SW.
  4. 0.2 miPass Lake Winthrop.
  5. 400 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  6. 50 ftBear left onto Pleasure Point Connector, heading SE.
  7. 400 ftPass Pleasure Point.
  8. 450 ftReach Lake Winthrop, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  9. 0.1 miBear right, heading NE.
  10. 50 ftTurn right onto Cemetery Run, heading NE.
  11. 0.3 miSharp right onto Upper Charles Trail, heading NW.
  12. 3.4 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

81% gravel11% dirt2% paved6% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 6:47 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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