Sudbury River - Lincoln to Concord - November 30, 2025

Approaching Egg Rock

I usually try to do a "Day After Turkey" (Thanksgiving) paddle, but this year my daughter and grandkids were visiting. Instead, I got out today for a trip with Conrad on the Sudbury River.

The Sudbury is a National Wild and Scenic River that arises in Westborough and flows generally northeast for 41-miles to its convergence with the Assabet at Egg Rock in Concord. From there the river continues as the Concord, which flows generally north for about 16-miles until its convergence with the Merrimack River in Lowell.

Conrad and Erik

We would be doing the section from the Lincoln Canoe Launch to the Lowell Road Boat Ramp – about 5-miles. The forecast was for rain in the afternoon, so we met at 9:00 to run the shuttle and were on the water around 10:00. There was ice at the boat launch, but the river itself was clear.

Just downstream of the boat launch is Fairhaven Bay, a wide-open section of the river that was written about by Henry David Thoreau, particularly the it changing seasons. While mostly marshland upstream, this section is lined with big beautiful houses. We ended the trip at Egg Rock, where the Sudbury and Assabet Rivers converge to form the Concord River. We were on our way home before the rain started.

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