Scituate Town Trails in Driftway Park

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.

A. J. McEachern Memorial Trail—green-coded on the map—is a loop trail connecting Lookout Hill at the park entrance with all other trails and also with the docks, from where you can enjoy views of the Herring River passing through the salt marsh.  

A. J. McEachern Memorial Trail

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. 

Main Trail traversing sandy area via two branches

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.

 

Scituate Wind turbine seen from Main Trail between intersection points 5 and 6