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Methuen Rail trail
Methuen, Massachusetts, USA
Methuen, Massachusetts, USA

Methuen Rail trail

Length2.5 mi
Elev. Gain36.1 ft
Est. Steps6000
Trail
Created by Kryssi

Methuen Rail trail Introduction

Methuen Rail trail is a 2.5 mile (6,000-step) route located near Methuen, Massachusetts, USA. This route has an elevation gain of about 36.1 ft and is rated as easy. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

Attractions Near Methuen Rail trail

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First Baptist Church (Methuen, Massachusetts)

Building
First Baptist Church is an historic Baptist church building at 30 Park Street in Methuen, Massachusetts. Built in 1869 for a congregation established in 1815, it is one of the town's finest examples of Carpenter Gothic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

House at 50 Pelham Street

Place
The House at 50 Pelham Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Italianate house and barn. Built sometime in the 1870s, the ​2 1⁄2-story wood-frame house features typical Italianate decorations, including extended bracketed eaves (not just on the roof but also on projecting window lintels), doubled brackets in the gable eaves, and a round-arch window in the gable end.

G.B. Emmons House

Place
The G.B. Emmons House is a historic house at 283 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts. The two story Queen Anne house was built c. 1890 for G.B. Emmons, president of the Emmons Loom Harness Company located in neighboring Lawrence. Although the house is a fairly typical example of a stylish residential house built in Methuen and Lawrence during that time, it occupies a prominent position on a main road near the center of town, and has been well preserved.

House at 306 Broadway

Place
The House at 306 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well-preserved example of a modest Greek Revival house built c. 1830. It is of a type that was somewhat common in Methuen from the 1830s to the 1850s. It is a ​1 1⁄2-story wood frame structure with its gable end facing the street, but its entry centered on the long side wall.

Methuen, Massachusetts

Place
Methuen is a statutory city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 47,255 at the 2010 census. Methuen lies along the northwestern edge of Essex County, just east of Middlesex County and just south of Rockingham County, New Hampshire. The irregularly-shaped town is bordered by Haverhill to the northeast, North Andover to the east, Lawrence and Andover to the south, Dracut (Middlesex County) to the west, Pelham, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County) to the northwest, and Salem, New Hampshire (Rockingham County) to the north.

Nevins Farm and Equine Center

Place
Nevins Farm and Equine Center, also known as MSPCA at Nevins Farm and the Methuen Animal Care and Adoption Center at Nevins Farm, is an animal shelter and veterinary hospital in Methuen, Massachusetts operated by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Part of the 55-acre (22 ha) property is devoted to Hillside Acre Animal Cemetery, a 4-acre (1.6 ha) animal cemetery.

Spicket Falls Historic District

Place
The Spicket Falls Historic District encompasses the historic industrial and commercial heart of Methuen, Massachusetts, and one of the lower Merrimack River's best-preserved 19th century mill complexes. It is centered on the falls of the Spicket River, from which the 19th century textile mills of Methuen derived their power.

Johnson House (Methuen, Massachusetts)

Place
The Johnson House is a historic house at 8 Ditson Place in Methuen, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame house, five bays wide, with a hip roof and end chimneys. The two bays to the right of the entrance have been replaced by a projecting bay window with Italianate paired brackets at its cornice, and the windows left of the entrance have a curved cornice from the same period.

Turnpike House

Place
The Turnpike House was a historic house at 314 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts. It was a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure with a side gable roof and a granite foundation, with two interior chimneys. The main entrance was flanked by full-length sidelight windows, and a two-story wing was added to its rear early in the 20th century.

Nevins Memorial Library

Library
The Nevins Memorial Library at 305 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts was built in 1883 to honor David Nevins, Sr. as a memorial gift from his wife Eliza Nevins (née Eliza Coffin), his elder son David Nevins, Jr., and his younger son Henry Coffin Nevins. The library is located at 305 Broadway in Methuen and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Comments

Hailey
2024/04/17
Hailey
2024/05/09
PacerGuy_1946
2024/10/19
Galanie
2025/10/07
Last updated: Mar 1, 2026

Route Details

Length

2.5 mi

Elev. Gain

36.1 ft

Est. Steps

6000
Created by
Kryssi
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