[redsox322]

Last month I hiked Mt. Wachusett in central Mass. Really nice hike with some decent climbs; Too bad the summit was 10 degrees with about 60 mph winds. You could see the snow-capped Monadnock along the horizon - a little foreboding for a future hike!

A trail called the Mid-State Trail travels through the center of Massachusetts, starting in Douglas State Forest to the south, then ending at the MA/NH border. I've only seen small hints of this trail in major state parks like Wachusett, but besides that it seems run-down or extinct. If its still a complete trail I'd love to hike it this spring.

Anyone have any info about this trail?

[Andrew]

I've never done it, but these links may shed some light:

http://www.ugcs.calt.../hikes/mmt/pdf/

http://www.a1trails....a/midstate.html

http://www.midstatet...ail%20tales.htm

Map: http://www.midstatetrail.org/maps.htm

[redsox322]

Thanks! The first link was excellent for anyone else interested. I was looking for a map like that that noted where you could camp along the way.

[dudley]

I live just up the road from Rhode Island's North-South Trail which runs from the R.I shore to the Mass state line where it becomes the Mid-State
http://www.rigreenwa...hs/nst-data.htm
When the mid-state enters N.H. it becomes the Wapack Trail
http://www.wapack.org/
which you can follow to beyond Pack Monadnock.
Then, if you were willing and didn't mind some road walk or a hitch, you could connect with the Monadnock- Sunapee Greenway
http://www.msgtc.org/
I'm not sure anyone does that but,
it could be done

A local long distance trail

[rocksnrolls]

I've hiked the northenmost parts on Mt Watatic through to Mt Hunger and would love to hike more of it.

[rocksnrolls]

dudley, on Feb 24 2007, 02:27 PM, said:

Then, if you were willing and didn't mind some road walk or a hitch, you could connect with the Monadnock- Sunapee Greenway
http://www.msgtc.org/
I'm not sure anyone does that but,
it could be done

The M-SG doesn't actually connect up with the Mid-State Tr, though I suppose it's not that far away from it.

I've section hiked the M-SG this past year and it's a great long trail. The views from the tower on Pitcher Mtn were especially awe inspiring. The hike up the southern ridge of Sunapee was also quite nice.

The M-SG hooks up with the Metacomet-Monadnock Tr which goes from NH to CT west of Worcester, roughly along the ridges of the Connecticut River Valley. It then hooks up with the Metacomet Tr which goes about halfway into CT. From there I've heard there's more trails that will bring you all the way to Long Island Sound, but I'm not too sure what the deal is with that.

Oh, and the M-SG connects up with the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Tr and from that large loop trail it's a shortish road walk to the AT which you could take to the Whites, hook up with the Cohos Tr and end up at the Canadian border

I'm hoping to section hike it all over the next few years but doubt I could thruhike it. It wuold actually be a tough thruhike because there are few legal campsites along some of the trails

[dudley]

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The M-SG doesn't actually connect up with the Mid-State Tr, though I suppose it's not that far away from it.

Yes, that's what I said, it does not connect

As for legal campsites , they're called legal campsites so that there is no confusion with "other" campsites

[TROY]

there are 5 shelters on the Mid State trail.The first is near the southern terminus of the trail and the next is about 39 miles north.