Nashua River Rail Trail

The Nashua River Rail Trail is a 12.5-mile 20.1 km cleared mixed use rail trail in northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire under control of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation DCR. It for the most part takes after the course of the Nashua River, experiencing the towns of Ayer, Groton, Pepperell, and Dunstable, Massachusetts and completes about a mile over the New Hampshire state edge in Nashua, New Hampshire. The trail is a great part of the time used by walkers, bicyclists, inline skaters, and, in the winter, crosscountry skiers.Ayer was an essential convergence for both north-south and east-west rail lines in the midst of the snappy headway of railroad transportation.

The Nashua River Rail Trail sits on the past Hollis branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The line was at first piece of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad that related Worcester, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire, which was opened on July 3, 1848. The line was extended to Portland, Maine in 1874 and it ended up being a bit of the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad partner Worcester and aides east toward Canada's Grand Trunk Railroad through Portland, Maine