Midstate Trail

Midstate Trail is a 92-mile (148 km) long-distance hiking route in Worcester County, Massachusetts, running north to south. It links the Rhode Island border area near Buck Hill State Management Area to the New Hampshire border at Mount Watatic, where it connects with the Wapack Trail.

For route planning, the trail is commonly hiked as a multi-day backpacking trip (often done in about 3–5 days) but it also breaks cleanly into shorter day-hike sections.

The corridor is a mix of wooded footpaths and signed hiking segments that stay close to towns and trailheads in many places, so resupply and shuttle options are generally straightforward compared with remote long trails.

Navigation is a core part of the experience: the trail uses yellow triangle blazes, but because the route strings together different paths and road segments, you’ll want reliable section-by-section map guidance instead of relying on continuous tread alone.

The trail climbs to major high points including Mount Wachusett and Mount Watatic. Expect a generally easy long-distance profile with occasional steeper or rougher stretches, rather than constant hard gradients.

Logistics and hazards: hikers commonly note deer ticks and mosquitoes in season, plus poison ivy where vegetation is dense; plan water care for sources that can run through populated areas or farmland along the route.

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