Miles Howard
@milesperhoward.bsky.social
Outdoor author and urban trail builder. Creator of Mind The Moss, a newsletter about walking. Bylines in National Geographic, Mountain Gazette, The Boston Globe, Outside, WBUR, The New Republic, and AFAR. I founded the Walking City Trail of Boston. He/Him.
One Battle After Another is as great as people are saying it is, but Benicio Del Toro may have stolen the whole film with this one moment/line that will live rent free in my head indefinitely
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One Battle After Another is as great as people are saying it is, but Benicio Del Toro may have stolen the whole film with this one moment/line that will live rent free in my head indefinitely
Brief reprieve from the world being on fire. A new book project adventure has begun and this one is for the hardcore New England freaks. Coming in 2027.
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Brief reprieve from the world being on fire. A new book project adventure has begun and this one is for the hardcore New England freaks. Coming in 2027.
Anyone who is engaged in housing discourse and advocacy should read THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social. No book that I’ve read in recent years has faced the forces driving our homelessness and affordability crisis like this one. It’s an astounding feat of reporting.
July 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Anyone who is engaged in housing discourse and advocacy should read THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social. No book that I’ve read in recent years has faced the forces driving our homelessness and affordability crisis like this one. It’s an astounding feat of reporting.
For no particular reason, I re-watched THE THIN RED LINE last night, for the first time in almost a decade. It's hard to think of another movie from the 90s that's aged this beautifully. And sadly, I think it would be impossible to make this kind of film today. A tragic and transcendant masterpiece.
July 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
For no particular reason, I re-watched THE THIN RED LINE last night, for the first time in almost a decade. It's hard to think of another movie from the 90s that's aged this beautifully. And sadly, I think it would be impossible to make this kind of film today. A tragic and transcendant masterpiece.
48 hours of thru-hiking on Chicago’s Outerbelt Trail. A beautiful and unique urban hiking experience. We meandered along hidden creeks, saw wildlife, and combined camping with thin-crust pizza (the pope’s favorite!) and other delicacies.
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July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
48 hours of thru-hiking on Chicago’s Outerbelt Trail. A beautiful and unique urban hiking experience. We meandered along hidden creeks, saw wildlife, and combined camping with thin-crust pizza (the pope’s favorite!) and other delicacies.
Editors. Interested in a story about this? Let’s talk.
Editors. Interested in a story about this? Let’s talk.
Heading to Millennium Station to catch a train to Calumet, where I’ll meet up with the trail builders behind Chicago’s Outerbelt, hit the trail, and spend the night camping at a nature preserve. It’s a steamy one today. Stops at air-conditioned venues near the trail are likely.
July 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Heading to Millennium Station to catch a train to Calumet, where I’ll meet up with the trail builders behind Chicago’s Outerbelt, hit the trail, and spend the night camping at a nature preserve. It’s a steamy one today. Stops at air-conditioned venues near the trail are likely.
New urban trails are popping up in more U.S. cities each year, and some of them are massive. But what’s rare is an urban trail that offers access to campsites: allowing you to thru-hike an urban trail.
This week, I’m in Chicago to hike and camp on the Outerbelt Trail!
This week, I’m in Chicago to hike and camp on the Outerbelt Trail!
June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
New urban trails are popping up in more U.S. cities each year, and some of them are massive. But what’s rare is an urban trail that offers access to campsites: allowing you to thru-hike an urban trail.
This week, I’m in Chicago to hike and camp on the Outerbelt Trail!
This week, I’m in Chicago to hike and camp on the Outerbelt Trail!
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
Currently training for a long distance hiking event in a high heat area and I decided to do a Walking City Trail sign audit. Thus far, each section has been about 50/50 in terms of trail signs removed and trail signs left alone. Suffice it to say, I brought replacements. One last part to go tonight.
June 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Currently training for a long distance hiking event in a high heat area and I decided to do a Walking City Trail sign audit. Thus far, each section has been about 50/50 in terms of trail signs removed and trail signs left alone. Suffice it to say, I brought replacements. One last part to go tonight.
Greater Boston: I’ll be at Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville on Wednesday evening at 6pm to lead an IPA-fueled conversation about urban trails, wayfinding, and the role of “Citizen Geography” in modern life. Come on out and join us!
June 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Greater Boston: I’ll be at Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville on Wednesday evening at 6pm to lead an IPA-fueled conversation about urban trails, wayfinding, and the role of “Citizen Geography” in modern life. Come on out and join us!
I went for a hike with Bernie Sanders this morning in Morristown, VT. As we’ve seen on Boston’s Walking City Trails, group hikes are a uniquely effective way to get people talking, connecting, and putting down community roots; which is vitally important in times like these (and in all times, really)
June 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I went for a hike with Bernie Sanders this morning in Morristown, VT. As we’ve seen on Boston’s Walking City Trails, group hikes are a uniquely effective way to get people talking, connecting, and putting down community roots; which is vitally important in times like these (and in all times, really)
As if he wasn’t doing enough good already, Zohran might usher in a truce for the extremely online housing discourse
June 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As if he wasn’t doing enough good already, Zohran might usher in a truce for the extremely online housing discourse
Of all the magazine stories I’ve written in the last few years, this one might be the biggest and closest to my heart. For Mountain Gazette, I went for a long summer trek along private beaches in Cape Cod; a tiny sliver of Massachusetts’ privatized coastline. Which we should reopen to the public.
May 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Of all the magazine stories I’ve written in the last few years, this one might be the biggest and closest to my heart. For Mountain Gazette, I went for a long summer trek along private beaches in Cape Cod; a tiny sliver of Massachusetts’ privatized coastline. Which we should reopen to the public.
The left has not “dictated” culture; the left has created culture that’s more attractive to more people, in a landscape where there’s a seemingly endless stream of funding for right wing culture propagation, and dwindling resources for left-adjacent ventures. That, in itself, is a show of strength.
May 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The left has not “dictated” culture; the left has created culture that’s more attractive to more people, in a landscape where there’s a seemingly endless stream of funding for right wing culture propagation, and dwindling resources for left-adjacent ventures. That, in itself, is a show of strength.
A few of the green spaces that are featured along Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail:
- Millennium Park
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary
- Lost Pond Sanctuary
This is not an exhaustive list; just a sampling :)
- Millennium Park
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary
- Lost Pond Sanctuary
This is not an exhaustive list; just a sampling :)
April 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A few of the green spaces that are featured along Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail:
- Millennium Park
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary
- Lost Pond Sanctuary
This is not an exhaustive list; just a sampling :)
- Millennium Park
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary
- Lost Pond Sanctuary
This is not an exhaustive list; just a sampling :)
As we celebrate the launch of Boston’s City On The Hills Trail, we’re breaking all 31 miles of it down section by section
Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail starts at Millennium Park and it runs 6.9 miles through West Roxbury, a little piece of Brookline, and Chestnut Hill
Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail starts at Millennium Park and it runs 6.9 miles through West Roxbury, a little piece of Brookline, and Chestnut Hill
April 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
As we celebrate the launch of Boston’s City On The Hills Trail, we’re breaking all 31 miles of it down section by section
Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail starts at Millennium Park and it runs 6.9 miles through West Roxbury, a little piece of Brookline, and Chestnut Hill
Section 1 of the City On The Hills Trail starts at Millennium Park and it runs 6.9 miles through West Roxbury, a little piece of Brookline, and Chestnut Hill
Combined, the Walking City Trail and the City On The Hills Trail now form the backbone of an urban trails system that will one day connect every neighborhood in Boston with green spaces—the Walking City Trails network.
April 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Combined, the Walking City Trail and the City On The Hills Trail now form the backbone of an urban trails system that will one day connect every neighborhood in Boston with green spaces—the Walking City Trails network.
A west-to-east sibling of Boston's Walking City Trail, the City On The Hills Trail covers some of the highest points in Boston and includes West Roxbury, Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Allston/Brighton, Mission Hill, Roxbury, Dorchester and Southie. 40+ green spaces in 9 neighborhoods
April 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A west-to-east sibling of Boston's Walking City Trail, the City On The Hills Trail covers some of the highest points in Boston and includes West Roxbury, Chestnut Hill, Brookline, Allston/Brighton, Mission Hill, Roxbury, Dorchester and Southie. 40+ green spaces in 9 neighborhoods
Jamaica Plain just now
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Jamaica Plain just now
So are we at the civil unrest stage?
April 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
So are we at the civil unrest stage?
March 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Me when people complain about Boston St. Patrick's Day mayhem
March 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Me when people complain about Boston St. Patrick's Day mayhem