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  • Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

    A dog partially concealed by grass carries a frisbee in a field in front of evergreen trees at the Arnold Arboretum.

    Description: A romantic haven, the Arnold Arboretum sustains gentle hills of varied gardens, vibrant trees, and scenic paths....
    Climb: easy-to-moderate
    Features: accessible bicycle-friendly bird-watching dog-friendly foliage free gardens medium (151-1000 acres) skyline views
    City: Boston, MA

  • Blue Hills Reservation

    From the top of a great hill, a blue green horizon precedes a hilly green landscape. In the foreground, there are rocks and dried plant life.

    Description: Popular for a reason, Blue Hills offers hundreds of miles of trails....
    Climb: intense
    Features: accessible bicycle-friendly bird-watching cross-country skiiing dog-friendly fishing foliage free ice skating large (>1000 acres) panoramic views pond reservoir skating rink skiing skyline views
    City: Milton, MA

  • Breakheart Reservation

    A rocky trail ascends a steep, densely wooded hill. The trees' foliage is mostly green but has started to turn orangey brown from the drought. In the left foreground, blueberry bushes grow. The face of the hill is in shadow from the trees, but the sunlight ahead shines through the leaves.

    Description: Heartbreakingly beautiful, Breakheart Reservation's trails extend over seven rocky hills....
    Climb: moderate-to-intense
    Features: bicycle-friendly bird-watching cross-country skiiing dog-friendly foliage free medium (151-1000 acres) panoramic views pond remote river skyline views swimming
    City: Saugus, MA

  • Brookline Reservoir

    Through murky water, fish can be seen. The surface of the Brookline Reservoir is brown and covered in rocks.

    Description: Historically Boston's drinking water supply, the Brookline Reservoir makes a short and sweet loop for walkers and joggers....
    Climb: flat
    Features: dog-friendly fishing free reservoir skyline views small (<150 acres) urban
    City: Brookline, MA

  • Charles River Park Reservation

    In the foreground, a paved path stretches in front of two cherry blossom trees in bloom with pink flowers. Behind the trees, the Charles River, and a bridge spanning the river. The sky is clear blue.

    Description: Twenty miles long, the Charles River Park Reservation maintains bike paths, pedestrian paths, playgrounds, athletic fields, and some of the best views of Boston and Cambridge....
    Climb: easy
    Features: accessible athletic fields bicycle-friendly bird-watching dog-friendly foliage free gardens large (>1000 acres) river urban
    City: Boston and Cambridge, MA

  • Chestnut Hill Reservoir

    In the background behind the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, from left to right, there are the Hancock Tower and the Prudential Tower, the Waterworks Museum, and other buildings.

    Description: On either side of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, views of the city and Boston College stand on the horizon....
    Climb: flat
    Features: bird-watching dog-friendly free pool reservoir skating rink skyline views small (<150 acres)
    City: Boston, MA

  • Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary

    At the top of a hil, dense vegetation and ferns grow. Sparse bright red and yellow foliage shows. Beyond, towards the horizon, the hill slopes down, and leafy trees just beginning to turn color extend as far as the eye can see. Some trees are evergreen. The sky is clear blue.

    Description: With only four miles of trails, animal exhibitions form the main attraction at Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary....
    Climb: easy-to-moderate
    Features: accessible bird-watching farm foliage gardens remote small (<150 acres)
    City: Lincoln, MA

  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy

    In a thickly wooded park with leafy deciduous trees, a path parts in two directly in front. A sign points to the right for pedestrians, and to the left for bicycles. The pedestrian path disappears into shadow under trees behind a low rock wall. The bike path curves around a bend in the distance. A man walks on the bike path in the mid-left.

    Description: The Emerald Necklace lays a string of parks from Back Bay through Jamaica Plain, its jewels a wide variety of recreational activities....
    Climb: easy
    Features: accessible athletic fields bicycle-friendly dog-friendly fishing free gardens medium (151-1000 acres) pond urban
    City: Boston, MA

  • Forest Hills Cemetery

    Tall pine trees grow surrounding a path covered in pine needles in the woods.

    Description: The sculptures and gardens of Forest Hills Cemetery create a restful yet visually stimulating escape from the city....
    Climb: easy
    Features: accessible free gardens medium (151-1000 acres)
    City: Boston, MA

  • Fresh Pond

    Sunlight sparkles on Fresh Pond. Its rocky banks are visible in the foreground, with some leaves partially obsuring the pond on the left. In the middle background, the pond curves around a densely wooded area. The far shores of the pond are densely forested as well. The sky is partially cloudy.

    Description: A two and a half mile wooded path surrounds Fresh Pond, Cambridge's source of drinking water....
    Climb: easy
    Features: accessible bicycle-friendly dog-friendly free medium (151-1000 acres) pond reservoir
    City: Cambridge, MA

  • Great Esker Park

    The Weymouth Back River under clear blue skies. There are dense trees on the far side of the river.

    Description: Great Esker Park lies along the Weymouth Back River with salt water marshes, reversing falls, and six miles of trails....
    Climb: moderate
    Features: bird-watching dog-friendly esker fishing foliage free medium (151-1000 acres) remote tidal river
    City: Weymouth, MA

  • Hammond Pond Park/Webster Conservation

    Hammond Pond extends under partially cloudy skies. Lily pads float throughout the pond. On the other side of the pond, a forest grows.

    Description: Sprinkled with lilies, Hammond Pond lies adjacent to the wooded trails of Webster Conservation Area....
    Climb: easy-to-moderate
    Features: bird-watching fishing foliage free gardens medium (151-1000 acres) pond rock-climbing
    City: Newton, MA

  • Hemlock Gorge Reservation

    From under the shade of a partially visible overhanging tree, the image shows a waterfall of the Charles River. There are logs and bits of wood trapped at the height of the fall.

    Description: Tucked in between suburban Newton and Needham, tiny Hemlock Gorge Reservation features a few mild hills and waterfalls....
    Climb: easy-to-moderate
    Features: free river small (<150 acres) waterfalls
    City: Needham, MA

  • Horn Pond Mountain

    A small pond has trees on its far end.

    Description: Skyline views and an abandoned reservoir await discovery atop Horn Pond Mountain....
    Climb: moderate-to-intense
    Features: bird-watching dog-friendly fishing foliage free medium (151-1000 acres) pond remote skyline views
    City: Woburn, MA

  • Lynn Woods Reservation

    A pond extends with dense trees on the far shore. On the hither shore, green grass grows interspersed with large rocks and boulders. A large boulder stands in the pond on the middle-right.

    Description: Lynn Woods Reservation entices with scenic trails, multiple reservoirs, rose gardens, and tall tales behind cryptic sites....
    Climb: moderate-to-intense
    Features: bicycle-friendly cross-country skiiing dog-friendly foliage free gardens large (>1000 acres) panoramic views pond remote reservoir rock-climbing skyline views
    City: Lynn, MA

  • Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center & Wildlife Sanctuary

    From the front left, a boardwalk extends forwards towards a clearing in the distance. On the right, dense ferns grow. On the left, there is shadowy grass. All around the path and behind the ferns, leafy dedicuous trees grow thickly.

    Description: Mass Audubon Boston Nature Center's simple trails pass by wetlands, fields, and community gardens....
    Climb: flat
    Features: accessible bird-watching free gardens small (<150 acres)
    City: Boston, MA

  • Middlesex Fells Reservation

    At the top of a waterfall, a stream flows downward from right to left over rectangular shaped rocks. Mostly bare trees with some spring buds grow in the background.

    Description: Waterfalls, rocky hills, and city views grace the trails of Middlesex Fells Reservation....
    Climb: moderate-to-intense
    Features: bicycle-friendly bird-watching cross-country skiiing dog-friendly fishing foliage free large (>1000 acres) panoramic views pond pool reservoir rock-climbing skating rink skyline views waterfalls
    City: Medford and Melrose, MA

  • Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary

    A uniform forest of tall pine trees

    Description: With 25 miles of trails, the Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary harbors forests, fields, and wetlands....
    Climb: moderate-to-intense
    Features: bird-watching foliage medium (151-1000 acres) remote
    City: Sharon, MA

  • Mount Auburn Cemetery

    Two snow angels, one adult-sized and one child-sized, are carved into the side of a snowy hill. Gravestones and a large evergreen shrub are above the angels.

    Description: Bucolic Mount Auburn Cemetery preserves a sanctuary of natural solace and urban wildlife....
    Climb: easy-to-moderate
    Features: accessible bird-watching foliage free gardens medium (151-1000 acres) panoramic views skyline views
    City: Cambridge, MA

  • Pine Banks Park

    Half a dozen ducks stand in the shade on the banks of a nearly dried up small pond. There are rocks embedded throughout the muddy banks. Lily pads float in the shallow water or lie on the mud. At the far end of the scene, there is much shrubbery.

    Description: Pine Banks Park provides recreational fields and brief wooded trails that climb to a scenic outlook....
    Climb: moderate
    Features: athletic fields bicycle-friendly dog-friendly esker free rock-climbing small (<150 acres)
    City: Malden, MA

  • Prospect Hill Park

    In the foreground, the rocky tops of a cliff with leafy deciduous trees growing directly below. In the distance, a sprawl of urban green, with the Boston skyline on the horizon.

    Description: Prospect Hill Park's steep hills, vernal pools, and dense woods open up to scenic outlooks east and west....
    Climb: intense
    Features: accessible bicycle-friendly dog-friendly foliage free medium (151-1000 acres) panoramic views skyline views
    City: Waltham, MA

  • Stony Brook Reservation

    A close up of thick lily pads and their flowers.

    Description: The quiet woods of Stony Brook Reservation hide ponds, wetlands, brooks, and rock-outcroppings....
    Climb: easy
    Features: accessible athletic fields bicycle-friendly dog-friendly fishing foliage free medium (151-1000 acres) pond pool skating rink
    City: Boston, MA

  • Wompatuck State Park

    In the foreground, large rocks precede a fallen log extending left to right. A slim tree trunk stands in the front right. Behind the log is a large rock on the left and then a pond swirled with green algae. A leafy branch pushes in the mid left. Large rocks lie in the pond, and a short field lies behind the shores of the pond, with dense trees growing on a hill in the background.

    Description: Visitors to Wompatuck State Park enjoy 12 miles of bike trails and camping facilities....
    Climb: flat
    Features: accessible bicycle-friendly campgrounds cross-country skiiing fishing free large (>1000 acres) pond reservoir
    City: Cohasset, MA

  • World's End

    There is a large tree on the left on top of a dry grassy hill. In the middle distance below, there are evergreen and leafy deciduous trees. Towards the left behind those trees, there is another dry grassy hill with trees around the far edge. In the foreground, towards the right and going down the hill, it is dense with trees. A sliver of water is visible beyond the furthest hill. Trees lie across the horizon at the end of the bay.

    Description: At World's End, the bay views on the hilly peninsula merit the fee charged to non-members....
    Climb: moderate
    Features: bay bicycle-friendly bird-watching dog-friendly foliage medium (151-1000 acres) panoramic views remote skyline views tidal river
    City: Hingham, MA

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