Welcome to Friends of Natick Trails!

Together, we are making Natick a stronger community through safe and convenient access to the outdoors, and with connections that tie together our neighborhoods and promote exercise, heath and sustainability. Please join us! Sign up here if you would like to get involved.

What’s New

  • The Cochituate Rail Trail is temporarily closed between Fisher Street and Bacon Street for demolition of the Loker Street Bridge. More information about the detour here.

  • Please join us for the 2025 FoNT Annual Meeting at the Morse Institute Library on Tuesday, September 16. Register here. See you there!

  • Check out Natick Trail Mail, our monthly newsletter about our work and trails in and around Natick. Sign up here.

  • Join us at Natick Days on Saturday, September 6. More information here

  • Want to participate in our work? Sign up here to be a member, volunteer, or if you want to learn more.

  • We invite sponsorships on the Cochituate Rail Trail to support events and improvements to the CRT. We offer sponsorship opportunities including benches, bike repair stations, and historical panels available for sponsorship. Revenue from these sponsorships flows to a Town of Natick fund that supports maintenance and improvements on the trail.

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  • Donate here

  • Watch the Cochituate Rail Trail - Moving Together Virtual Tour video produced for a MassDOT conference in December 2021 that tells a story of how the CRT came to be.