Minuteman Bikeway
You won't get lonely on the Minuteman Bikeway. The 11-mile rail-trail through suburban Boston is one of New England's most popular trails. Warm summer weekends in particular bring folks of all ages and abilities elbow to e... traillink.com
Boston South End, Boston, Massachusetts
With its picturesque architecture and wonderful mix of tolerant people, the South End is uniquely Boston. More than most neighborhoods, it is a community created by its residents to reflect their wide range of economic means,... trails.com
Southwest Corridor Park, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
The southwest corridor park was almost a highway. On this walk you can see what happened when the expressway plan was dropped, the narrow corridor became transit lines, and a park was built around it. The never-built Southwes... trails.com
Southwest Corridor Park
Southwest Corridor Park is a 3.9-mile linear park through the Boston neighborhoods of South End, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain. A recreation and commuter route popular with walkers, runners, and cyclists, the corridor is a tr... traillink.com
South Boston And Dorchester Bay, Boston, Massachusetts
South Boston has the longest continuously accessible ocean waterfront of any Boston neighborhood; it also has one of the city?s highest hills, complete with panoramic views of Boston Harbor and Dorchester Bay. In comparison w... trails.com
Neponset River And Ashmont Hill, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
A quiet river flows through a widening estuary to Boston Harbor, past riverfront communities and a public beach. This river?the Neponset?is a little-known sister of the larger Charles River. The two rivers could not be more d... trails.com
Boston South Bay And The Shirley-eustis House, Boston,...
This walk leads you through the modern bustle of South Bay and environs?yet if you look past the energy of modern commerce with some imagination, you can still visualize three-masted sailing ships, muscular steam locomotives,... trails.com
Boston South Bay Harbor Trail, Boston, Massachusetts
The South Bay Harbor Trail is very much a work in progress?as well as an ambitious and exuberant entry into the list of Boston?s paths. Leading from inner-city neighborhoods to the harbor, some segments of the path are comple... trails.com
Upper Charles River Reservation, Boston, Newton, Massachusetts
A natural and wild quality pervades the Charles River?s banks upriver from the dam at Watertown Square. Unlike the riverbanks along the Charles River Basin?the well-known Boston and Cambridge Esplanades with their elegant, ma... trails.com
Secret Stairways And Paths In Brookline, Boston, Brookline,...
A pleasure unique to Boston is tracing the dramatic topography left by the great glacier when it passed through New England. The glacier marked the Boston Basin with a series of high hills overlooking the harbor and kettle ho... trails.com
Arlington, Outside Boston, Arlington, Massachusetts
At first glance Arlington seems to be one more pleasant suburb of Boston?a good place to live without much for visitors to see. Not so. The town played a pivotal role in the American Revolution, as this stroll down the popula... trails.com
East Cambridge And Kendall Square, Outside Boston, Cambridge,...
For urban contrasts, this is the walk. The small industrial-courthouse town that once was East Cambridge is now ringed with new and reused buildings that house high-tech and other office-based firms. The high-rise buildings a... trails.com
The Hills Of Somerville, Boston, Somerville, Massachusetts
Like an East Coast San Francisco, Somerville?s street grid is imposed on its hills without regard to steep grades. Architects have capitalized on the city?s resulting dramatic views with two- and three-family houses densely b... trails.com
Boston Harborwalk, Boston, Massachusetts
Bostonians have always had a love-hate relationship with Boston Harbor and the waterfront. We alternately embrace it and shun it; thrive on its wealth and beauty and then pollute and isolate it. But the bond remains. Over the... trails.com
Savin Hill, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Savin Hill, a very distinctive part of Boston, sits serenely above a tangle of teeming transportation arteries. Its elevation isolates it from the rest of the city, protecting it from the heavy traffic on the expressways, rai... trails.com
West Cambridge, Outside Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The pathways of Cambridge spread far beyond its famous education centers. Some areas, such as the Charles River, are well known to present and former students. Still, the secrets of the leafy residential areas west of Harvard... trails.com
Alewife Linear Park/somerville Community Path
Alewife Linear Park is a beautiful paved trail stretching 2 miles east from the Alewife T-station in Cambridge to Cedar Street in Somerville. The park came about after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the "T... traillink.com
Boston Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts
From Dudley Square to Chinatown, Washington Street is in the midst of an astonishing small-business and real-estate revival that is bringing new life and vitality to this historic part of the city. This is not, of course, the... trails.com