The Neponset River Greenway is a multi-use paved trail that follows the Neponset River through Boston’s southern neighborhoods, including Mattapan, Dorchester, and Hyde Park, as well as the adjacent town of Milton. Designed as a low-stress route for walking, running, cycling, and skating, it threads through riverside marshes, woodlands, and parkland, offering a green corridor…
The Boston Harborwalk is a public waterfront path that traces the harbor’s edge along piers, wharves, and shoreline, and its East Boston stretch offers some of the best skyline views in the city. The most popular access point is Piers Park, an 11-acre waterfront park that opened in 1995 on a historic pier extending out…
Park Street station, at the corner of Park and Tremont streets on the eastern edge of Boston Common, is one of the most historic transit stops in America. Together with neighboring Boylston, it anchors the Tremont Street subway, the first subway in the United States, whose original 1897 tunnel segment is designated a National Historic…
The Boston Harborwalk is a continuous public path tracing the city’s shoreline, linking parks, wharves, beaches, and waterfront neighborhoods along Boston Harbor. Conceived as part of the 1984 Harborpark plan, it has grown for decades as new waterfront development is required, under Massachusetts’ Chapter 91 public-waterfront law, to set buildings back from the water and…
South Station, at 700 Atlantic Avenue on the edge of the Financial District, is New England’s busiest rail terminal and one of Boston’s great transportation landmarks. Opened in 1899, its grand Classical Revival head house presides over Dewey Square at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street, its curved facade crowned by a sculpted…
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