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Friends of the Lynnfield Rail Trail, Inc. 

a Non-Profit Organization to help this initiative become a reality.

Tax-exempt under IRC Section 501 (c) (3).

Donations are tax deductible.

Click here:  http://www.lynnfieldrailtrail.org/donate.html

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Help us make Lynnfield a safer & healthier community for all ages and abilities! 

Incredible aerial video of Reedy Meadow

​​​​September/October Update- (click town link below and scroll down for current update, Lynnfield Villager article and Vimeo of 9/23/24 presentation to Select Board).

​The Town’s Rail Trail team provided a formal update on the status of the project to the Select Board at its September 23, 2024 meeting.  The update included a review of the project design, phasing, and schedule as well as design graphics and example images of proposed trail features.  The team will present the design of connections from the trail to both the Middle School and High School campuses at a School Committee meeting in October.

Both phases of the project will be reviewed at MassDOT’s Project Review Committee meeting on October 2, 2024 (postponed by MassDOT from September 26).  MassDOT’s comments on the 75% design submittal for Phase 1 are due back to the Town on October 13, 2024.  The 100% design of Phase 1 is scheduled to be submitted to MassDOT in late January 2025.

Data collection for the design of Phase 2 was completed in the Spring of 2024.  The design team has developed a schematic design alternative for Phase 2 that would take advantage of expected revisions to DEP’s wetlands regulations to reduce the required length of boardwalk and would reduce construction costs.  Promulgation of DEP’s revised regulations is anticipated by year end.  A schedule for Phase 2 will be developed thereafter.

The Town is hopeful that recent progress on the Phase 1 design will confirm project “readiness” for MassDOT funding and construction of Phase 1 starting in FY 2026.  Optimistically, Phase 1 could be open for use in the Spring of 2027.

https://www.town.lynnfield.ma.us/conservation-commission/pages/rail-trail

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Hear Lynnfield Resident and abutter to the proposed Rail Trail ,Tom Grilk, talk about why he welcomes the Rail Trail behind his backyard.

- 5 min video.( A segment of the Lynnfield Rail Trail Forum- March 2017).

Lynnfield Rail Trail

-advocating for the Lynnfield-Wakefield  Rail Trail project.

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lynnfieldrailtrail@gmail.com

Safer, Healthier, Four Season Recreation

and a BOOST to all home values in town!

- see tab at top ( Positive Effect on RE Values)