Tag: Boston

Boston: Urban Core Walking Maps

One of the many benefits of walking is that you see and experience things you’d miss using other modes of travel. And the best way to enjoy them is with a WalkBoston map.

Our maps feature places that are wonderful to walk, easy to navigate, and convenient to get around. Each one is created by those know the territory best – people who live there or are expert in a walk’s particular theme or topic.Each has a self-guided walk with a detailed route, distances and descriptions of sights and scenes.

Click on the points on the map and then on the link “Google Map” for the map you would like to view.

Click for “WalkBoston’s Boston Urban Core Walking Maps” and more on Google Maps

Boston: Harborwalk Map

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 past 30 years we’ve started to better appreciate the treasure in our backyard. the wharves are being reborn to lure people back, along with the allure of the aquarium, restaurants, housing, and hotels. The Harbor Islands, forgotten treasures, have been rediscovered. In the past ten years pollution has been cut to a fraction of its former levels. And of course the Central Artery has been replaced with parkland, re-knitting the city and the waterfront. To see it all, there’s the Harborwalk, hugging the water’s edge along much of the waterfront, offering views of the harbor up close.

Click for “WalkBoston’s Harborwalk Map” on Google Maps

Boston: Charlestown Walking Map

Charlestown is Boston’s oldest neighborhood—and over the years has arguably been its most volatile. For centuries the town trained and outfitted the nation’s military forces; it has seen ethnic, racial, and labor tensions simmer and erupt into violence; it has hosted one of history’s most infamous executions. And that’s not even to mention Charlestown’s two high points (literally!): Bunker Hill (where the first battle of the American Revolution was supposed to take place) and Breeds Hill (where it did). This walk will take you through the town’s compact heart and past its most colorful and historic sites.

Click for “WalkBoston’s Charlestown Walking Map” on Google Maps

The Neponset River and Ashmont Hill Walking Map

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 different. Where the Charles is the focus of downtown and the universities, the Neponset flows past old chocolate mills and historic residential areas through one of the last remaining salt marshes and wildlife sanctuaries at the edge of Boston Harbor.

Along the river the Lower Neponset River Trail, a new 2.5-mile pathway built by the Metropolitan District Commission, follows the route of the former Dorchester & Milton Branch Railroad. This trail is reachable by quaint and colorful 1950s-era trolleys that take passengers from Ashmont Station to the beginning of the path as Central Avenue in Milton. From here, the paved footway follows the river past warehouses, mill flats, and a gradually expanding tidal estuary with tall saltwater-washed grasses.

Click for The Neponset River and Ashmont Hill Walking Map on Google Maps

Boston: Boston Common and Public Garden Map

Boston Common [1634] is America’s first public park — 50 acres purchased at the edge of the colonial town for the common use as a place to train soldiers and graze cattle. For 200 years residents walked through the Common’s treeless meadows on informal paths. Colonial and British soldiers camped and marched here. The grazing cows were evicted from the Common in 1830, when the city’s growth surrounded the park. Starting with George Washington, all US presidents have walked its paths.

Click for “Boston Common and the Public Garden” Map PDF

Click for “WalkBoston’s Boston Common and Public Garden Map” on Google Maps