Minuteman Highway
Minuteman Highway is an All-American Road in Massachusetts. Within Massachusetts it covers roughly 30 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Minuteman Highway with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
This entry, listed as 'Minuteman Highway,' corresponds to the corridor through Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord. Massachusetts officially designated this same corridor in 2006 as the Battle Road Scenic Byway; research for this entry found no separately documented byway under the 'Minuteman' name, so that discrepancy is worth flagging honestly. The route follows the approximate path British regulars marched on April 19, 1775, the day the American Revolution began at Lexington and Concord, and passes directly through Minute Man National Historical Park. In 2021, the corridor became the first All-American Road in Massachusetts, the federal program's highest honor. Along the way, colonial-era homes, stone walls, and preserved farmland border the road, along with the homes of 19th-century literary figures Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, giving the corridor as much a literary as a military history.
- Arlington, Lexington, Lincoln & Concord corridor
- Likely the same corridor as the Battle Road Scenic Byway
- Massachusetts' first All-American Road (2021)
- Follows the British march of April 19, 1775
- Minute Man National Historical Park
- Homes of Emerson & Louisa May Alcott
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What is an All-American Road?
All-American Roads are the top tier of America's National Scenic Byways. To earn the title a road has to be a destination in its own right — offering features so exceptional, across several intrinsic qualities (scenic, natural, historic, cultural, archaeological or recreational), that they can't be found anywhere else.
Where to Stay along Minuteman Highway
No campgrounds are listed close to Minuteman Highway yet, but there are rooms near the route.
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