{"id":353,"date":"2025-02-15T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=353"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:18:49","slug":"new-england-trail-public-transit-hikes-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"New England Trail Public Transit hikes overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My spouse Sara and I are section hiking the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/\">New England Trail<\/a>&nbsp;using public transit. There are some areas that require overnights due to the distance between public transit stops, but most can be done as day hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the sections I&#8217;ve gotten to with information about public transit options. Click the &#8220;Full post&#8221; links for a detailed description with photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Massachusetts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MA Sections 17 to 19 have no close public transit access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-15\/\">MA Sections 15<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-16\/\">16<\/a>: FRTA 32 (2.4 mile walk from Erving Center)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MA Sections 11 to 14 have no close public transit access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-8\/\">MA Sections 8<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-9\/\">9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-10\/\">10<\/a>: PVTA 38 and R29 at western end, 45 at the eastern\/northern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-7\/\">MA Section 7<\/a>: PVTA 39E at western end, 38 and R29 at eastern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-6\/\">MA Section 6<\/a>: PVTA R41 at southern end, B48 at northern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-5\/\">MA Section 5<\/a>: PVTA B23 at southern end, R41 at northern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-3\/\">MA Sections 3<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-4\/\">4<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=331\">Full post<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-2\/\">MA Section 2<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=312\">Full post<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ma-net-section-1\/\">MA Section 1<\/a>: PVTA R14 to northern end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Connecticut<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CT Sections 20-21 have no close public transit access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ct-net-section-19\/\">CT Section 19<\/a>: CTtransit 34 (2 mile walk) to midpoint on Hatchett Hill Road.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ct-net-section-18\/\">CT Section 18<\/a>: CTtransit 912 to Winslow Place Park &amp; Ride (2 mile walk) to southern end.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newenglandtrail.org\/hike\/ct-net-section-17\/\">CT Section 17<\/a>: CTtransit 912 to Winslow Place Park &amp; Ride (2 mile walk) to northern end, 926 to Albany Ave &amp; Mountain Road (1.1 mile walk), 66 to Farmington Ave &amp; Old Mountain Road (0.5 mile walk)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>more to come&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My spouse Sara and I are section hiking the&nbsp;New England Trail&nbsp;using public transit. There are some areas that require overnights due to the distance between public transit stops, but most can be done as day hikes. Here are the sections I&#8217;ve gotten to with information about public transit options. Click the &#8220;Full post&#8221; links for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/?p=353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New England Trail Public Transit hikes overview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,30,31,24],"tags":[29,21,19,27,18],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england-trail","category-outdoors","category-public-transit-hikes","category-transportation","tag-bus","tag-exploration","tag-nature","tag-pvta","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharett.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}