Bullet the Blue Sky wrote:
It's been a few years since I was there, but driving into Hopkinton is not possible close to race time. There maybe some ungodly hour you can get there before they halt traffic.
The Hopkinton roads close at 7:30 -- though in the past I feel like they have actually started closing closer to 7. I know someone right in town, so I get dropped off at their house in the morning. If you're going to the athletes' village, probably best to take the shuttle bus from the state park as suggested (or the bus from Boston).