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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct · highs 14–27 °C (57–81 °F)
- J1°-8°92
- F3°-6°98
- M8°-2°116
- A14°3°114
- M20°9°106
- J25°15°112
- J28°18°109
- A27°17°95
- S22°13°104
- O16°7°114
- N10°2°121
- D4°-4°114
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/10) (hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Mapped length
- 2.2 km · 1.4 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 3.4 km SW of Littleton Common (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- SAC scale (OSM)
- hiking
- Route centre
- 42.5236, -71.4901
- Route start
- 42.5213, -71.4994
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 16675684
How it’s scored
Easy (2/10). Official rating: hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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