Suggested Trail Routes

Not sure how best to tackle all 125 miles? Friends of the Blue Hills’ members have you covered… See below for suggested routes and trails for each section. The routes may be too long or too short for you to enjoy in one trip, so feel free to modify the routes to suit yourself! For maps with numbers, you start your hike at ‘1’ and continue to follow the numbers for your route. (You’ll understand once you see one!)  

And if you haven’t signed up for the 125-Mile Club Challenge, sign up today!

Trail map of the Blue Hills broken out into sections. Blue Hill is labeled number 1, highlighted blue. Houghton's Pond is number 2, highlighted pink. Chickatawbut is number 3, highlighted yellow. Quincy Quarries is number 4, highlighted red. Fowl Meadow is number 5, highlighted green. And Ponkapoag Pond is number 6, highlighted orange.

Blue Hills Sections

The Blue Hills can be divided into the following six sections, as indicated on the map to the left.

 

  1. Blue Hill
  2. Houghton’s Pond
  3. Chickatawbut
  4. Quincy Quarries
  5. Fowl Meadow
  6. Ponkapoag Pond

Suggested hikes and routes to help you take on the 125-Mile Club Challenge

We hope you find these suggested routes helpful.  We’d love to see your route suggestions!  Click here to share your favorite trail or 125-Mile Club route recommendation. 

See below for routes by section.

Hikes you may enjoy:

Suggested routes for you to cover all the trails in the ‘1000s’ – Blue Hills section.

1000-1 – Unquity Road

1000-2 Chestnut Run

1000s-3 Houghton’s Pond to Great Blue

1000-4 – Accord Red Dot

 

 

 

Suggested routes for you to cover all the trails in the ‘2000s’ – Houghton’s Pond Section.

2000s Blue Hills Four Maps core section

 

Hikes you may enjoy:

Suggested routes for you to cover all the trails in the ‘3000s’ – Chickatawbut section

Hikes you may enjoy:

Suggested route for you to start to cover all the trails in the ‘5000s’ – Ponkapoag Pond section.

4000-1 Quarries – Sawcut Notch

4000-2 Green dot

 

 

Suggested route for you to start to cover all the trails in the ‘6000s’ – Fowl Meadow section

Trail # 6000-1 – Little Blue section in Fowl Meadow

Trail # 6000-2 – Fowl Meadow with carpooling

Trail # 6000-3 – Fowl Meadow without carpooling

Suggested routes for you to cover all the trails in the ‘5000s’ – Ponkapoag section.

 

To give you a sense of how to plan your 125-Mile Challenge, click here for routes planned by Bob Vogel of AMC. You can also see below or click here for suggested trail routes for the entire park, courtesy of Barney Moisette.