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| Driftway Park dock with salt marsh and Herring River views |
Driftway Park is located next to the Widow's Walk Golf Course about 1.5 miles south of Scituate Harbor between Boston and Plymouth in Massachusetts. The park features a boat launch, two Herring River docks, a lockout picnic area, memorial sites and a network of various short trails.
The trail system includes color-coded and social trails. A trail map can be downloaded here (URL given below). The map shows the color-coded trails and the enumerated trail intersection points.
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| A. J. McEachern Memorial Trail |
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| Memorial rock next to trail with the inscription “Till We Meet Again” |
The 1600-ft-long Main Trail—yellow-coded—is the longest trail in the park. It leads across a sandy area and through forest to intersection point 6 at the forest/salt-marsh line, where a short loop trail allows you to check out the high-tide flood situation. There, a frequently wet and muddy social trail connects with the “blue trail.” The latter leads to the “red trail” and also back to the docks and park entrance.
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| Main Trail traversing sandy area via two branches |
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| Blue Trail |
Getting to Driftway Park from the Greenbush MBTA station
Walk south on Old Driftway and turn left onto Driftway. The south side of this road has a pedestrian and bicycle path, which you want to follow eastward until getting to the right-side park entrance at Lookout Hill.
Trail map URL: https://www.scituatema.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3781/f/uploads/driftway_website.png.
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| Scituate Wind turbine seen from Main Trail between intersection points 5 and 6 |
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