A 55-Mile Ride Around Boston Island for Doug Mink's 55th Birthday September 9, 2006 0.0 Start at top of Bellevue Hill 0.2 Cross West Roxbury Parkway 0.2 Cross Washington St. 0.3 Follow dirt road behind Domino's Pizza 0.4 Cross Blue Ledge Dr. into Stony Brook Reservation 0.6 Bear right at fork in paths (Watch out for rough pavement at bottom of hill) 1.5 Turn right into parking lot 1.5 Cross Enneking Parkway to Smith Field Road 1.8 Left on Reservation Road at T 1.9 Right onto path immediately after playground 2.1 Bear left at fork in path 2.2 Left onto path at rink 2.6 Cross River St. onto path over Mill Pond dam (Cross Mother Brook) 2.7 Straight on Knight St. 2.8 Straight on Readville St. 2.9 Left on Neponset Valley Parkway 3.3 Left on Milton St. 3.4 Right on Hyde Park Ave. 3.5 Left on Neponset Valley Parkway (After going under railroad tracks) 4.0 Turn around at Paul's Bridge over Neponset River 4.2 Right on Truman Parkway (Paved shoulder might become bike lane) 4.8 Pass Martini Shell (Mural from 1999) 5.2 Left on Dana Ave. 5.4 Cross Neponset River (Just below confluence with Mother Brook) 5.5 Right on Walnut St. 5.7 Mural under Fairmount Ave. next to T station 5.7 Left on Nott St. 5.8 Right on Fairmount Ave. 5.9 Right on Pierce St. 6.3 Left on Metropolitan Ave. (not sharp left) 6.4 Right on River St. 7.2 Right on Monponset St. 7.3 Left on Edgewater Drive at river 7.6 Right on River St. 7.7 Right on Blue Hill Ave. 7.8 U-Turn on Blue Hill Ave. 8.0 Right on River St. 9.0 Right on Central Ave. 9.1 Left on Neponset Trail after crossing river (Mural on right) 9.4 Go under Adams St. 9.5 Cross Neponset River (Mural on left) 10.0 Go under High Speed Line (trolley out of service) (Murals on left before, right after) 10.3 Cross Granite Ave. at new light 10.7 Cross Hallet St. (Mural on right in underpass) 10.9 Go under Southeast Expressway (Mural on left) 11.3 Right on Taylor St. 11.5 Left on Water St. 11.6 Right on Walnut St. 11.7 Left on Ericsson St. 11.8 Left on Lawley St. 12.0 Right on Conley St. 12.1 Right on Neponset Trail along Tenean Beach 12.5 Right on Tenean St. 12.6 Straight on Freeport St. 12.9 Right on Victory Rd. (Neponset Trail could have gone between expressway and gas pumping station before 9/11) 13.0 Turn around 13.1 Right on Freeport St. 13.2 Right on Morrissey Boulevard 13.4 Watch grating on drawbridge 14.1 Right on path at Columbia Point 14.4 Pass U.Mass/Boston 15.2 Pass Kennedy Library 15.3 100 feet of missing path between pavement and gravel 15.5 Right on Harborpath (Note granite markers with history, etc.) 16.2 Pass Mother's Rest (remnant of Olmsted's park) 16.3 Follow wide sidewalk along Carson Beach 16.8 Follow wide sidewalk along Day Boulevard 17.8 Right on causeway around Pleasure Bay 19.1 Straight on Day Blvd. past Fort Independence 19.4 Straight on 1st St. 20.2 Right on Summer St. 20.7 Right on Drydock Ave. 20.8 Left on Harbor St. 21.0 Left on Northern Ave. 21.5 Right on old Northern Ave. 21.9 Cross old Northern Ave. bridge (yield to pedestrians) 22.0 Right on Atlantic Ave. 22.7 Right on Commercial St. 23.3 Straight on Causeway St. (at Charlestown Bridge) 23.5 Right toward North Station 23.6 Down ramp to Nashua St. 23.9 Bear right onto New Esplanade path 24.0 Cross Leverett Circle onto Charles River Path 24.1 Right past tennis courts if path is open 24.4 Go under the Longfellow Bridge 24.8 Right over bridge onto island past Hatch SHell 25.4 Over bridge to mainland 25.7 Go under Mass. Ave. 26.8 Go under B.U. Bridge 27.7 Cross Cambridge St. 27.9 Cross Western Ave. 28.4 Cross N. Harvard St. (after Harvard Business School) 29.1 Go under Eliot Bridge 29.9 Northeastern Boathouse 30.3 Cross Arsenal St. 31.1 Cross North Beacon St. 32.5 Cross Galen St. at Watertown Square (Possible lunch stop) 32.6 Bear right onto Upper Charles Reservation Trail 33.6 Cross Bridge St. (follow heron tracks) 34.1 Cross Charles River on 2005 bridge 34.4 Left to cross Charles River on Farwell St. 34.4 Right across Farwell St. to path 35.1 Cross Newton St. 35.3 Right on Elm St. 35.4 Left through break in fence 35.6 Cross Moody St. onto path 36.1 Cross Prospect St. into cemetery 37.1 Exit cemetery onto Charles River Rd. (left?) 37.5 Left on South St. 37.8 Left on Norumbega Rd. 38.7 Right under Rt. 128 to River Rd. 38.8 Right on Comm. Ave. (Rt. 30) 39.2 Left on Park Rd. 40.1 Becomes Concord St. in Newton 40.7 Left on Rt. 16 (Washington St.) 41.0 Right on Quinobequin Road (under Rt. 128) 42.9 Right on Chestnut St. 43.5 Right on Oak St. 43.8 Cross Needham St. onto Christina St. 43.9 Right on railroad tracks over Charles River 44.2 Left on 2nd Ave. 44.3 Right on 4th Ave. 44.7 Right on Kendrick St. (pass Cutler Park) 45.2 Left on Greendale Ave. 47.1 Left on Great Plain Ave. 47.5 Cross Route 128 48.0 Cross Great Ditch (1648 canal) (Charles River marshes are on right) 48.4 Bear left on Needham St. 49.0 Left on Bridge St. 49.1 Right on VFW Parkway 50.3 Stop at Mother Brook dam 50.3 Cross VFW Parkway at light to Dedham Mall 50.5 Right toward Mall 50.5 Immediate Left on mall road 50.7 Left on Washington St. 50.8 Right on Curve St. after crossing Mother Brook 51.2 Bear right on Maverick St. 51.4 Left on Colburn St. 51.7 Cross Bussey St. (Mother Brook Historical marker on right) 51.8 Right on Emmett Ave. 52.1 Right on Sawmill Lane (View East Dedham Mill across mill pond on left) 52.2 Left on Milton St. 52.7 Left on River St. 53.3 Left on River St. over Mill Pond 53.4 Straight on Turtle Pond Parkway 54.2 Left on path before Enneking Parkway 54.3 Cross Dedham Parkway 54.5 Straight on West Boundary Rd. 55.4 Right on Washington St. 55.8 Left on Lagrange St. 56.0 Right on Bellevue Hill Rd. 56.2 Right on road to top of hill 56.3 End of ride (descend to Doug's house for cake)