It starts at Sheldon’s Ice Cream—a Southampton landmark that’s been part of this town since the 1850s. From the intersection of College Highway and Brickyard Road, the Southampton Greenway runs 3.1 miles north through woods, over brooks, and past farmlands, ending at Coleman Road where it meets Easthampton’s Manhan Rail Trail.
From there, the regional network opens up. Walkers, runners, and riders can continue for miles across Western Massachusetts—currently as far as Belchertown to the east and Williamsburg to the west—and growing.
In Southampton while walking or riding the Greenway, you’re surrounded by the quiet that’s hard to find anywhere else on the trail system—the rustle of leaves, the sound of water nearby, the sense of moving through a landscape that’s been here far longer than any of us. This is Southampton as it’s always been, now made accessible to everyone.
The trail will be paved and wide enough for two-way travel, designed to be accessible and welcoming for all users—families with young kids, serious cyclists, casual walkers, everyone in between.
But this isn’t just the valley. The Southampton Greenway will be part of the upcoming New Haven and Northampton Canal Greenway, enabling passage all the way down to the coast. And that’s connected to another long term project—the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail, an in-progress 104 mile trail to Boston.
Someday we’ll have an easily accessible path to Boston and New Haven right at our doorstep.
