Thanks to everyone who came out to help us get ready for rail construction phase 4! We had over 40 volunteers of all ages to help install wattles to protect the wetlands near our rail trail. A special thanks to Scout Troop 13 from Pepperell for all their great help. Let the last phase of construction begin!

Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us the opening of phase 2 of the rail trail under beautiful blue skies. Thanks especially to our guests of honor, State Senator John Cronin and the entire Shepherds team, without whom phase 2 would not yet exist!

Thanks to our volunteers who planted 34 trees along the rail trail near Depot St on Earth Day, and to everyone who stopped by to talk at our table during Townsend's Earth Day.

Thanks to Senators Cronin and Kennedy and Representitive Harrington for getting Squannacook Greenways a $100,000 earmark to build the section from Old Meetinghouse Road to Harbor Church! Click on any of the pictures below for high resolution version.

Thanks to everyone who showed up for our rail trail opening ceremony Sep 25! It was a terrific turnout and a beautiful day! Click on any of the pictures below for high resolution version.

Thanks to the over 20 volunteers who came out on a hot June day and worked on both the completed and the incomplete parts of the rail trail - they did a great job! It was great to be able to work again as a community as the pandemic ends.

Lots of pictures of all our great volunteers on our second trail building day Nov. 2, 2019.

Lots of pictures of all our great volunteers on our first trail building day Oct 19, 2019.

As part of their 50th anniversary, the Nashua River Watershed Association led a guided walk along the Squannacook River Rail Trail.

Thanks to the twenty volunteers who joined up to remove 26 bags of trash from the Squannacook River Rail Trail on Earth Day in Townsend, April 27, 2019. And thanks to our co-sponsors Townsend Congregational Church, St. John the Evangelist Church, and New Beginnings United Methodist Church.

Thanks to everyone who turned out for National Night Out in Townsend, and thanks to Chief Bailey for organizing this! We talked about how our non-profit is working hard to complete permitting in time for the construction window in Nov. 2108.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to here the latest about the Squannacook River Rail Trail at Townsend Earth Day!

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed a beautiful fall walk along the Squannacook River. And a special thanks to Al Futterman from the Nashua River Watershed Association and Bill Wilkinson, the Townsend representative on the Wild and Scenic Rivers Study Committee, for all their help!

Thanks to the over 65 participants (many in strollers!) who had a great time at the Family Day on the Squannacook River Rail Trail! And thanks to everyone who worked to make it special, including the Townsend Police Department, Nashoba Paddlers, Groton Turtle Conservation, and Rock and Roll Gymnastics. We all can't wait to hold this event on a stone dust trail instead of a walking path!

On Nov 5, 2016, Squannacook Greenways, in conjuction with Freedom's Way National Heritage Area and the Townsend Historical Society, held a guided one way walk of the Squannacook River Rail Trail. We were thrilled when over 60 people turned up to enjoy the walk. Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks to the Townsend Historical Society for offering walkers a tour of the Reed Homestead.