Minuteman Bikeway

Minuteman Bikeway
The Minuteman Commuter Bikeway in Lexington, with abandoned tracks from former use as a rail line
Began construction	1991
Completed	1998
Use	Bicycling, walking, jogging, inline skating, cross-country skiing
Difficulty	Easy
Season	Year-round
Surface	Paved
Right of way	former Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, former Middlesex Central Railroad
Maintained by	Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, Cambridge
Website	http://minutemanbikeway.org/
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The Minuteman Bikeway, also known as the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway, is a 10-mile (16-kilometre)^[1] paved multi-use rail trail located in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. It runs from Bedford to Alewife station, at the northern end of the Red Line in Cambridge, passing through the towns of Lexington and Arlington along the way. Also along the route are several notable regional sites, including Alewife Brook Reservation, the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum, Spy Pond, "Arlington’s Great Meadows" (actually located in Lexington), the Battle Green in Lexington, and Hanscom Air Force Base.

At its Cambridge terminus, the bikeway connects with four other bike paths:

• the Fitchburg Cutoff Path going west
• the Alewife Linear Park which, in turn, leads east to the Somerville Community Path.
• the Alewife Brook Greenway going northwest, a connection to the Mystic River bike path following Alewife Brook.^[2] The Alewife Brook extension received $4M from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as the "Minuteman Bikepath Connector" project.^[3]
• a sidewalk path going south to Fresh Pond Reservation and the Watertown Cambridge Greenway

The Somerville Community Path was extended to downtown Boston in the summer of 2023, creating a much larger continuous bikeway accessible from the Minuteman.^[4]

At the Bedford end, the Minuteman Bikeway connects with the Narrow Gauge Rail Trail and the Reformatory Branch Rail Trail.^[5]