CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A compact south-of-Boston ride that trades the city edge for wooded hills and Atlantic villages. The road: MA-28, MA-3A and local roads. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.
Boston is a compact old city with an unusually long memory. It was founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers on a small peninsula, and by the 1770s it was the centre of the colonial protest against British rule, with the Tea Party, the Massacre and the first battles of the Revolutionary War all taking place within a few days' ride. The Freedom Trail, a red line painted on the pavement, links sixteen historic sites, from the Old State House to the Old North Church, and it is a simple way to see the old core on foot.
Cohasset is where Boston's South Shore turns rocky. Most of the coast between the city and Plymouth is low and sandy, but here the granite pushes up through the turf, and the road along the water, Route 3A, winds past stone walls, big old trees and views of a harbour full of moored sailboats. The village green, with its white church and Victorian town hall, looks like a stage set, and the whole place has a polished, unhurried air.
Scituate is a harbour town on the South Shore with two stories that people there tell with relish. The first concerns the War of 1812. In September 1814, a British warship was cruising off the coast, and two young sisters, Rebecca and Abigail Bates, who were alone in the lighthouse keeper's house while their father was away, are said to have grabbed a drum and a fife and hidden behind the dunes, playing as loudly as they could. The British, believing a company of militia was approaching, turned back. The story has been told so often that the sisters are known as the Army of Two, and the little lighthouse, built in 1811 on Cedar Point, is one of the oldest on the coast.