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Explore venerable gray­shingled A DAY PEDALING FROM
Nantucket town on foot, starting at CAMBRIDGE TO CONCORD
the whaling museum (see p46). Then
bike to Wauwinet to hike the dunes North Bridge Neillio’s 95
at Great Point, to Siasconset to see Orchard House Gourmet
rose­covered cottages, or Surfside The Wayside Kitchen
to swim or fly kites on the beach. Concord BIKE Lexington Lexington
Visitors' Center
Great
Salem
9 Concord Battle Lexington 2 Meadows
Green
Center
Road
BIKE
MAP F2
Trail
Station
In the popular imagination, Salem 95 Minuteman
Bikeway
is the city that tried and executed
witches. But the 1692 trials are best Alewife Red Line T Terminus
seen as an aberration in the history
of this vibrant city blessed with the MORNING
art of the Peabody Essex Museum Start your 13­mile (21­km) jaunt
(see p41) and a rich maritime history through American history by
recounted at the Salem Maritime taking your bike with you on the T
National Historic Site (see p47). In the to the Alewife terminus of the
early days of the country, Salem’s Red Line. Follow well­marked
merchant princes were richer than signs to the Minuteman Bikeway,
the national treasury. Their grand a flat, paved path. Pedal through
houses still attest to their power. Arlington, then watch for egrets,
herons, and bobolinks along the
edges of Great Meadows nature
area. The bikeway soon passes
the Lexington Visitors’ Center of
Minute Man National Historical
Park (see p38), perfect for a rest
stop. Pick up the park map and
brochures, taking note of historic
Lexington Green, your next stop.
Pay homage to the iconic Minute
Man statue on the green, then
pedal a few blocks up Bedford
Street to enjoy deli sandwiches at
Neillio’s Gourmet Kitchen (No. 53).
AFTERNOON
Salem Witch Museum
Concord and Lexington
0 Just west of Lexington Green
you switch from the Minuteman
Bikeway to Battle Road Trail, an
MAP E2, F2 • Ralph Waldo
Emerson House: 28 Cambridge Tpk, unpaved road for walkers and
Concord; 978 369 2236; open mid- cyclists that parallels the route
Apr–Oct: 10am–4:30pm Thu–Sat, of the running battle as British
1–4:30pm Sun; adm forces retreated in 1775; his­
torical signposts explain the
The opening skirmishes of the significance of sights along the
American Revolution, in what is now way. North Bridge, near another
Minute Man National Historical Park visitor center in the park, is
(see p38), forever link these neigh­ especially evocative. At the end
boring towns. Concord also gave the of the trail, follow signs to The
US its first literary voices in Ralph Wayside and Orchard House (see
Waldo Emerson (1803–82) and Henry p44) to learn about Concord’s
19th­century literary history.
David Thoreau (1817–62). Also, Lexington Road takes you into
novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–88) Concord Center, where you and
grew up in Orchard House (see your bike can return to Boston
p44). All of the above are buried at on the commuter rail.
Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
See map on pp76–7
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