Beverly, Peabody, Wakefield, MA Road Meet - Sat-Sun November 8-9, 2025

[jon12791]

I'm planning a road meet in the listed cities/towns on the North Shore of Massachusetts on November 8-9, 2025. Things to see and walk:

Day 1 -Saturday - 10:30am brunch at Depot Diner, Beverly

Drive to parking lot off of Rantoul and Cabot Streets

Walk:
Cabot Street, Beverly - flashing green/simultaneous red-yellow signal
Newly reconfigured and upgraded signal at North end of bridge
Veterans Memorial Beverly- Salem Bridge - beautiful bridge 1990's era
Route 127 crosswalk signal - vintage text don't walk/walk signs still in operation
Return to parking lot

Drive via Salem to Route 114 in Peabody - more flashing green lights
separate car and truck routes on Route 114 through neighborhood
multi-lane arterial adjacent to shopping mall and other commercial buildings recently retrofitted with flex posts and protected only turns for safety and new countdown pedestrian signal crosswalks and speed feedback signs  - traverse by car as far as Route 62 in Middleton Center and then turn
around

Dinner at 6pm at Sylvan Street Grill, Peabody

Day 2-Sunday, November 9; 12:00 noon

Park by church in Wakefield, Church Street near Route 129,South end of Lake Quannapowitt
Walk to Lunch at Public Kitchen, Wakefield
Walk through downtown Wakefield - interesting skewed intersections
Walk clockwise around lake
New shared-use path and remnants of temporary bike lanes
Site of old 8-inch flashing green/yellow-red signal that I bought in an auction
New RRFBs
New Shared-use path along lake as part of apartment complex mitigation
Rotary retrofitted into a multi-lane roundabout
Electric vehicle charging stations
Return along sidewalk immediately adjacent to lake with goat paths from excessive use
Just over 5k walk total Sunday
Dinner at Bellino's, Wakefield or on your own

[jon12791]

Revised and consolidated to one day, Nov 9, 2025 from 9am-9pm

[jon12791]

Details updated here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1272493097665711?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22your_upcoming_events_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

[Roadgeekteen]

This actually might be a possibility for me. I likely won't have a license by then but if someone is willing could hitch a ride at the location. Would be my first road meet.

[jon12791]

Wonderful! Join the Facebook event! We'll be carpooling at the site. It says Needham/Amherst....are you a UMass Amherst student?


https://www.facebook.com/events/1272493097665711?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22your_upcoming_events_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

[Roadgeekteen]

Wonderful! Join the Facebook event! We'll be carpooling at the site. It says Needham/Amherst....are you a UMass Amherst student?


https://www.facebook.com/events/1272493097665711?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22your_upcoming_events_unit%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

I graduated from UMass this May

[jon12791]

Awesome! Congratulations! So you're not a teen anymore! What's your name? What did you study?

Are you still planning on attending? If so, please RSVP.

[jon12791]

All, due to rain, I now have rescheduled this meet to Sunday, November 16, 2025. Hoping that frees up some schedules.

[jon12791]

https://www.facebook.com/events/1272493097665711/?active_tab=discussion

[dgolub]

All, due to rain, I now have rescheduled this meet to Sunday, November 16, 2025. Hoping that frees up some schedules.

This is kind of late to be rescheduling.  I already have my hotel booked and vacation scheduled with my job.  Also, given that one of the days off is a company holiday, that's not something that's within my power to move.

[hotdogPi]

I'm also not seeing guaranteed rain on the 9th, and if it does rain, it seems to be light.

I can make either day, for the record.

[jon12791]

I'm also not seeing guaranteed rain on the 9th, and if it does rain, it seems to be light.

I can make either day, for the record.

That's true. It said 42%. I'll still try for Nov 9. What is your name, HotdogPi? Where on the MA/NH border are you? I live in Chelmsford, MA.

[hotdogPi]

I'm also not seeing guaranteed rain on the 9th, and if it does rain, it seems to be light.

I can make either day, for the record.

That's true. It said 42%. I'll still try for Nov 9. What is your name, HotdogPi? Where on the MA/NH border are you? I live in Chelmsford, MA.

PM sent.

[jon12791]

Thanks

[jon12791]

This actually might be a possibility for me. I likely won't have a license by then but if someone is willing could hitch a ride at the location. Would be my first road meet.

We will definitely be carpooling at the location. Would be great to meet you there! One week away!

[hbelkins]

All, due to rain, I now have rescheduled this meet to Sunday, November 16, 2025. Hoping that frees up some schedules.

Meets have been held in the rain before.

I remember one of the Columbus, Ohio meets (that I didn't attend) took place in a deluge of a thunderstorm.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Port Huron was a freaking monsoon.

[jon12791]

It's no longer postponed - still November 9 at 9:00am and both of you are more than welcome.

[jpi]

Come to think of it, the Chattanooga road meet Cody and I did back in 2013 was a monsoon and my Memphis meet from 2017 was a monsoon too. My 2016 York meet had a freak snow storm in the morning that caused one person to not go and a few people to take there time getting there