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Columbia Greenway Rail Viewpoint & Ponders Hollow Road via Southwick Rail Trail is a 9.7-mile out-and-back near Southwick, MA. The route reaches Columbia Greenway Rail Viewpoint. It climbs 281 ft and is mostly paved. It scores 12/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi128 – 272 ft9.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 42.04735, -72.76241
Nearest town Southwick, MA

Directions

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Columbia Greenway Rail Viewpoint & Ponders Hollow Road via Southwick Rail Trail

9.7 mi · ▲ 281 ft · 3 hr 22 min

Elevation 130–273 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 42.04735, -72.76241

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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 350 ftTurn right onto Southwick Rail Trail, heading N.
  3. 3 miContinue straight onto Columbia Greenway Rail Trail, heading N.
  4. 1.2 miPass Columbia Greenway Rail Viewpoint.
  5. 250 ftContinue straight onto South Meadow Road, heading W.
  6. 200 ftTurn left onto Ponders Hollow Road, heading SW.
  7. 0.5 miReach Columbia Greenway Rail Viewpoint, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 0.5 miTurn right onto South Meadow Road, heading NE.
  9. 200 ftContinue straight onto Columbia Greenway Rail Trail, heading E.
  10. 1.3 miContinue straight onto Southwick Rail Trail, heading S.
  11. 3 miTurn left, heading S.
  12. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

86% paved2% dirt12% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:48 AMSunset 8:08 PM

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