Alewife Brook Reservation

Cambridge, Somerville, MA

Open year round, dawn to dusk The 120-acre Alewife Reservation is among metropolitan Boston's largest urban wilds and provides habitat for an array... Read More

Charles River Reservation

9 Galen St, Watertown, MA

DCR's Charles River Reservation is a linear park stretching from Boston Harbor up the river for 20 miles. The lower half of the reservation, from d... Read More

Mystic River Reservation

3920 Mystic Valley Pkwy, Medford, MA

Open year round, dawn to dusk. The banks of the Mystic River are almost entirely publicly owned, from the Amelia Earhart Dam at the mouth of the My... Read More

Teddy Ebersol's Red Sox Fields

Embankment Rd, Boston, MA

Located along the Charles River on Boston's famed Esplanade, the youth athletic fields are the result of a groundbreaking public-private partnershi... Read More

Chestnut Hill Reservation

Beacon Street, Brighton, MA

Considered a nineteenth-century masterpiece of engineering, urban planning and landscape design, the Chestnut Hill Reservation is listed on the Nat... Read More

Southwest Corridor Park

38 New Heath St., Jamiaca Plain, MA

The Southwest Corridor Park is a 4.7 mile, 52-acre, linear park stretching from the Back Bay to Forest Hills. It links the neighborhoods of South E... Read More

Roxbury Heritage State Park

183 Roxburt street, Boston, MA

The Dillaway-Thomas House at Roxbury Heritage State Park was built in 1750 and served as headquarters for General John Thomas and the Continental A... Read More

Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex

120 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Boston, MA

The DCR Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex is completed and had a grand opening on June 30, 2011. The renovated facility offers a large indoor re... Read More

Middlesex Fells Reservation

Middle Reservoir Rd, Medford, MA

The Middlesex Fells Reservation's 2,575 acres offer a welcome retreat for city dwellers and a suitable terrain for hikers, mountain bikers, horseba... Read More

Hammond Pond Reservation

888-918 Washington St, Newton, MA

Open year-round, dawn to dusk. Hammond Pond, a wooded reservation with a large, scenic pond, is located in the Chestnut Hill section of Newton adja... Read More

Beaver Brook Reservation

66 Mill Street, Belmont, MA

The first reservation established by the Metropolitan Parks Commission (later the MDC) in 1893, Beaver Brook Reservation is 59 acres of open fields... Read More

Mary O'Malley State Park

Admirals Hill along the Mystic River, Chelsea, MA

Mary O’ Malley Park, located on Admirals Hill along the Mystic River, offers striking views of the Tobin Bridge and the city beyond and is wi... Read More

Dorchester Shores Reservation

Harborwalk, Boston, MA

Malibu Beach, Victory Road Park and Tenean Beach provide the public with coastal access along the extended mouth of the Neponset River. Malibu Beac... Read More

Brook Farm Historic Site

670 Baker St, Boston, MA

This National Historic Landmark is 179 acres of rolling fields, woodland and wetland and was the location of the experimental society of Transcende... Read More

Constitution Beach

Homer St, Boston, MA

Constitution Beach is one of Boston's hidden waterfront gems. It is a popular spot for swimming. In general, Lifeguards are on duty Jun... Read More

Lower Neponset River Trail

Neponset District, Dorchester, MA

Open year-round, dawn to dusk. The Lower Neponset River Trail follows the path of a former railroad bed along the shore of the Neponset River. Trav... Read More

Stony Brook Reservation

Enneking, Turtle Pond, and Dedham Parkways, Hyde Park, MA

Open year-round, dawn to dusk. Enneking, Dedham and Turtle Pond Parkways wind through extensive tree covered hills, valleys, rock-outcroppings and ... Read More

Neponset River Reservation

Truman Pkwy, Milton, MA

Open year round dawn to dusk. The Neponset River, unlike the Charles and Mystic Rivers, remains a natural estuary with extensive marshlands at its ... Read More

Pope John Paul II Park Reservation