Greenway Council proposal: A proposal by the Neponset Greenway Council would include trail extensions on both sides on the river.

A multi-use path along the Neponset River will not go through Milton’s Capen Street neighborhood under an agreement a state senator says he has reached with the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation. The agency is weighing several ways to connect Pope John Paul II Park to the Hyde Park neighborhood, and Milton’s Central Ave. to Mattapan Square, since the trail currently runs 2.5 miles from Pope John Paul II Park to Central Ave.  Read more

Neponset Trail: An observer makes a point while on an extension-siting tour along the Neponset Greenway. Photo by Chris Lovett.It was a site to behold: A group of close to 50 people, many swatting at mosquitoes, brushing off leaves and twigs, and picking prickly seeds from their clothes stumbled out of the brush and back into civilization along River Street in Mattapan. This was the scene last Thursday as officials from the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation’s led a walking tour for a planned one mile extension of the Neponset Greenway, the popular riverside recreation trail that currently ends at Milton’s Central Ave.  Read more

Neponset Greenway: One of five proposed alternatives for extending the Neponset Greenway trail includes a route along the Milton side of the river. The path currently ends at Central Ave., shown above. Photo by Ed Forry

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation unveiled five proposals aimed at extending a path along the Neponset River from Milton’s Central Avenue to Mattapan Square this week. The proposed one-mile extension will connect Pope John Paul II Park, a 72-acre area between the expressway and the Neponset River marshes, to the Neponset Valley Parkway in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Currently, the 2.5-mile trail links Pope John Paul II Park to Central Ave.  Read more

Bike trail graffiti: A worker paints over a racist slogan along the Neponset bike trail near Butler Street MBTA station on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Photo by Ed ForryVandals left a spray-painted trail of racist insults, swastikas and obscene images up and down the scenic Neponset Greenway this weekend, leaving state officials scrambling to clean-up the mess and neighbors outraged by the graphic destruction of public property.  Read more