The way points of this bicycle route:
START: City Hall parking lot
Exit Somerville High School parking lot, left on Highland Ave
Right on Vinal Ave.
Left on Aldersey Street
STOP: 9-11 Aldersey Street
Left on Walnut Street
Right on Munroe Street
STOP: Prospect Hill Park and Tower
Right on Prospect Hill Parkway. (CAUTION - steep, curvy downhill)
Left on Columbus Ave
Columbus Ave turns sharply right (CAUTION - steep downhill)
Left on Washington St
Right on Rossmore St
Left on Somerville Ave.
Straight onto McGrath Highway side road, at Glass Stop (do not climb ramp onto the actual highway)
Under McGrath Highway
STOP: Brickbottom Artists Building
Left on Chestnut St
Chestnut St becomes Joy St
Right on Washington St
Left on Tufts St
Left onto Cross Street SIDEWALK
Left into parking lot of Sanctuary Condominiums, 138 Cross St (formerly First Universalist Church, Cross Street Orpheum movie theatre, and Bennett Plumbing Supply)
STOP in parking lot, overlooking railroad tracks
Exit parking lot, right on Cross Street
Left on Gilman St (CAUTION: against one-way traffic)
Under McGrath Highway
Right on Walnut Street (on left side, pass new Edward L. Leathers Park, now under construction at former Kemp Nut factory site)
Left on Pearl St
Bear right on Medford Street, at Gilman Square (site of former Winter Hill railroad station and future Green Line stop)
Left on School Street
Right on Richdale Ave
STOP - Susan Russell House, 58 Sycamore St (on left, at end of Richdale Ave)
North on Sycamore St
Left on Pembroke St (CAUTION: against one-way traffic)
Left on Central Street - pass Rogers Foam (formerly Derby Desk) factory
Right into Cambridge Health Alliance parking lot
STOP in parking lot: Somerville Junction Park now under construction; site of former railroad station
Exit parking lot, right on Central St
Right on Albion St
Right on Centre St
Left on Woodbine St - pass other end of future Somerville Junction Park
Right on Lowell St
Immediate left on Alpine St
Right on Cedar St; cross Somerville Community Path right-of-way
Right on Warwick St
Warwick St turns sharply left
STOP: MaxPak
Left on Clyde St
Right on Murdock St
Right on Cedar St
Left on Broadway
Bear right on Boston Ave, at Ball Square
Right into parking lot, just beyond Aero Cycle (red sign)
STOP in parking lot: site of former North Somerville railroad station and future Ball Square Green Line stop
Exit parking lot, left on Boston Ave
Sharp right onto Broadway, at Ball Square
Left into Nathan Tufts (Powder House) Park, at Liberty Ave
STOP - Old Powder House
Exit park, right on Powder House Terrace
Left on Kidder Ave
Right on Willow Ave - pass Benjamin Brown School
Left on Somerville Community Path
Right at Lexington Playground; former site of Somerville Highlands railroad station, depicted on mural
Straight onto Hancock St
Left on Spencer Ave
Straight (across Cedar St) onto Hudson St
Pass rear of Somerville Armory (future arts center)
Right on Benton Road
STOP: Westwood Road Historic District
Left on Westwood Road
END: Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road
Welcome to Bikely, take a step by step tour of this path:
Press Start Tour - then use the navigation buttons below to move along the path.
The Somerville Bicycle Committee and Somerville Historic Preservation Commission led this tour on May 31, 2008.
Tagged with: Basic, Low traffic, Safe, Urban
