Neponset Bike Path

Flat, scenic, clean, safe. The trolley goes by, you can bird watch and gaze at the murals. It’s so quiet, too. There’s parking near Butler Street or Granite Avenue.

The official name of this is the «Neponset Trail» of the DCR, but it is primarily a bike path, and I would like it to come up in searches as «bikepath». In any event, I see no review of it under any name, and I think folks should know about it.
I park at Taylor St., which is sort of near the Venezia restaurant, as this is the beginning of the good part. The «trail» sort of continues in name the other way, and if you suffer through some riding on roads, it gets good again once one gets on Morrissey Blvd, to UMASS where there is a nice dedicated path that goes past the Kennedy Libraray and onto Castle Island.
Anyway, the best portion is almost all what was the rail bed of the Old Colony Railroad, to Baker Chocolate. It goes past Pope John Paul II park, next to the Cedar Grove Cemetery, paralells the Mattapan «Frozen in time» trolley line, and dead ends at Central Ave Milton.
It is a good take, but it is kind of short, so I can only give it a 3. Before everyone was broke there were plans to make the path legit from Taylor St. to UMASS, but the poisoned brownfield that they bought is now all fenced off and appears to be a DCR storage area; I see no progress towards continuing the path.
Just how they would pull this all off by the Venezia and the huge gas tank I don’t know, but the portion I am talking about is quite nice.