Minute Man National Historical Park, the Town of Concord, and The Thoreau Farm Trust have a three-way public-private partnership to establish a trail linking the Battle Road Trail with Thoreau Farm.
Thoreau Farm is delighted to be partnering with the Minute Man National Historical Park and the Town of Concord on pursuing the creation of a foot path of roughly .8 miles connecting Thoreau Farm to other historic and ecologically significant Concord landscapes.
The trail alignment will be identified through a public planning process, but the goal for the trail will result in an experience north from the Battle Road Trail to join with the Town’s wooded upland, and end at Thoreau Farm, the house on Virginia Road where Thoreau was born. 
Map of area of proposed trail from a 2021 Mass Audubon feasibility study.
The trail combines an ecologically rich landscape of woodland, wetland, agriculture and edge habitats, with views across the Park’s historic farmlands. In the Concord Select Board’s letter of support, Chair Matthew Johnson noted the proposed trail “aligns with the Envision Concord Long Range Plan goals of increasing physical and social connectivity … and enhancing connections to walking trails between open spaces and village centers.”
Read More about this Project:
Trail Project Press Release – 15 May 23 – General Agreements Signed
Letter of Support for Trail from the Town of Concord – 27 September 2022
Letter of Support for Trail from the Walden Woods Project – 26 May 2022
Letter of Support for Trail from Mass Audubon – 17 June 2021
Letter of Support for Trail from the Thoreau Society – 15 June 2021
Letter of Support for Trail from Freedom’s Way Heritage Area – 4 June 2021
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