The New England National Scenic Trail (NET) is a 215-mile hiking trail that travels through 41 communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The NET travels through classic New England landscape features, including long-distance vistas with rural towns as a backdrop, agrarian lands, unfragmented forests, and large river valleys. The trail also passes colonial historical landmarks and highlights a range of diverse ecosystems and natural resources, from mountain ridges and summits to wetlands and vernal pools, to lakes, streams, and waterfalls. The NET was designated as a National Scenic Trail on March 30, 2009.
The trail’s stewardship partners are AMC, which maintains the Massachusetts portion of the NET; CFPA, which maintains the Connecticut portion of the trail. For more information about the NET, visit www.newenglandtrail.org.

Getting out to hike where we could see the ground we headed for Bear Hole Reservoir on the Westfield/West Springfield line taking the New England Trail in to the loop trail at the Bear Hole Reservoir. We parked at Bush Notch at the end of Old Holyoke Road where section 3 of the NET crosses.

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