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The Cochituate Rail Trail runs along the lake on the former track's right-of-way, from downtown Natick to Saxonville, a section of Framingham. The three ponds and their connector ponds cover a total of 625 acres (2.53 km 2). South of Cochituate, the 40-acre (160,000 m 2) Dug Pond is the site of Natick High School.
The park offers motor boating, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, windsurfing, fishing, picnicking, and swimming. [3] The park encompasses three sections of Lake Cochituate called the North, Middle and South lakes with different restrictions applying to each. [4]
Natick (/ ˈ n eɪ t ɪ k / NAY-tik) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 37,006 at the 2020 census. [1] 10 miles (16 km) west of Boston, Natick is part of the Greater Boston area.
Mike Tilton, a nationally ranked water skier in the 65-70 age group, practices on the South Pond portion of Lake Cochituate.
The CRT is named after Lake Cochituate, of which it offers scenic views. [4] The CRT runs from Mechanic Street and Whitney Field/Navy Yard in Natick Center to Saxonville in Framingham. The Framingham section was completed in 2015, and the Natick section, including two pedestrian bridges spanning Route 30 and Route 9, was completed in 2021.
Natick resident Jonathan Makofsky was inspired to run the Boston Marathon after the good things he saw across Lake Cochituate at Camp Arrowhead.
Its genesis dates to 1845, when a Sudbury River tributary was impounded to form Lake Cochituate in Natick. The artificial lake, with 17 square miles (44 square kilometres) of watershed, 2 billion US gallons (7,600,000 m 3) of storage, and yield of 10 million US gallons (38,000 m 3) of water per day, became the cornerstone of Boston's public ...
Lake Cochituate, which consists of four ponds connected by shallow, narrow waterways, is located in the towns of Natick, Framingham, and Wayland, 16 miles (26 km) west of Boston. Lake Cochituate lies in the Sudbury River Basin; Cochituate means "swift river" in the Algonquin language (Wilbur, 1978) and refers to Cochituate Brook (Schaller and ...