New England Trail Hiking Guide

Official app of the New England National Scenic Trail. The New England Trail (NET) is a 215-mile hiking trail route that has been in existence for over half a century. The NET travels through 41 communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts and is comprised primarily of the historic Mattabesett, Metacomet, and Monadnock (M-M-M) Trail systems.The NET travels through classic New England landscape features - long-distance vistas with rural towns as a backdrop, agrarian lands, unfragmented forests, and large river valleys. The trail also travels through colonial historical landmarks and highlights a range of diverse ecosystems and natural resources: mountain ridges and summits, forested glades, wetlands and vernal pools, lakes, streams, and waterfalls.

The New England Trail is managed and maintained by the Connecticut Forest & Park Association (CFPA) in Connecticut and the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) in Massachusetts in overall partnership with the National Park Service.