Abigail Adams State Park
Abigail Adams State Park sits on land that once housed a car dealership and a marine dredging operation, before being designated a state park in 2016. It is part of…
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Alton Smith Reserve + Sleeper Conservation Area
Alton Smith Reserve is a 103-acre retired cranberry bog in Hanson, surrounded by walking trails and wetlands, with a Natural Resource Conservation Service restoration program currently underway to return the…
Ames Nowell State Park
Ames Nowell is a 600 acre year-round day use area with most of the recreational activity centered around Cleveland Pond. The pond is very popular with boaters and fisherman. Development…
Bouve Conservation Area
Bouve Conservation is a 32 acre preserve located along Hewitts Cove in Hingham. The area was acquired from the Bouve family in 1980. Currently the park is owned and managed…
Caddy Memorial Park
Caddy Memorial Park is a small property on Gull Island, part of the Quincy Shore Reservation, with a shaded 0.33-mile trail -- paved from the parking area to a footbridge,…
Chapman’s Landing and Iron Mine Brook Trails
Chapman's Landing was once the westernmost shipping point in the North River system, where the steamship Mattakeesett once delivered iron ingots for Hanover's forges. Today it is a lovely 50-acre…
Chittenden yard and canoe launch
Chittenden Yard and Canoe Launch is a Norwell town landing with a fishing dock and a canoe/kayak launch, situated on a genuinely historic stretch of the North River. A shipyard…
Coast Guard Hill
Formerly a Coast Guard communications center, Coast Guard Hill in Marshfield is now home to the Marshfield Recreation Department. The 40-acre property has a popular sledding hill, walking trails, volleyball,…
Cohasset Harbor
Cohasset Harbor has a long, rich maritime history -- once a hub for commercial fishing and shipbuilding, it still supports an active lobster fleet today. Five town docks provide public…
Couch Beach
This was actually my second visit to Couch - but the first was a failure. I couldn't find the entrance. That might sound crazy but it was the truth. You…
Cranberry Pond – Hingham
Hingham's Cranberry Pond was once part of a working cranberry bog system, and today this small pond on French Street offers scenic water views along with 0.4 miles of woodland…
Crooker Memorial Park and Island Creek Pond
Duxbury's Crocker Memorial Park is a small wooded property offering canoe and kayak access to Island Creek Pond, with seasonal ice skating in the winter. The 35-acre pond is one…
Crystal Spring Preserve
Crystal Spring Preserve is a 36-acre property in Plainville, tucked just a quarter mile from the retail strip along Route 1 -- a genuinely unexpected patch of quiet given its…
Damon’s Point
Damon's Point offers a genuinely spectacular view of the North River estuary from a small town pier. The pier itself sits on the remains of an old railroad trestle, part…
Driftway Conservation Park
Driftway Conservation Park is 334 acres of Scituate Conservation land with a panoramic view of the Herring River and its salt marshes. In the 1930s, Boston Sand and Gravel owned…
Duxbury Beach Park
Duxbury Beach Park is the town-managed entry point to the Duxbury Beach barrier system, sitting at the western end of the historic Powder Point Bridge, where the long sandy peninsula…
Duxbury Beach Reservation
Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that owns the stretch of Duxbury Beach extending from Gurnet Road at its northern end down to the entrance of Gurnet Point…
Forge Pond Park
Forge Pond Park in Hanover, established in 2014, is a well-designed 40-acre athletic complex that hides a network of five intersecting woodland trails along its boundaries and beyond. The Forge…
French’s Stream Trail
The French's Stream Trail at Forge Pond Park begins at Parking Lot E, deep in the paved portion of the park, and follows a gravel path down to the water…
Furnace Pond Beach
Pembroke's Furnace Pond Beach features a large pond in a neighborhood setting, ideal for fishing, paddling, and seasonal ice skating. Furnace Pond was once known as Herring Pond and takes…
Gannett Road
Gannett Road in Scituate is a paved path connecting the town's neighborhoods, narrow enough (about 5 feet wide) that it functions more like a sidewalk than a proper shared-use bike…
Gray’s Beach
Gray's Beach Park in Kingston is a varied, grassy, 6.5-acre town park with a small sandy beach on Kingston Bay and a recently renovated playground, plus athletic courts. It is…
Green harbor
Green Harbor Beach is Marshfield's southern ocean beach, a mile of sand at the mouth of the Green Harbor River, running north from the Duxbury Beach line up toward the…
Hanover Public Launch and Mattakeeset Trail
There are three Hanover Conservation trailheads at this spot: two at Chapman's Landing and Iron Mine Brook, plus the short Mattakeeset Trail, which links over to Ludden's Ford Park. The…
Hartsuff Park Recreation Area
Hartsuff Park combines recreation and nature on one property, managed by the Rockland Youth Commission, with a playground, athletic fields, a resident-only swimming pond with a sandy beach, a 9-hole…
Hingham Harbor
Hingham Harbor is a popular put-in spot for kayakers and paddlers exploring Hingham Bay, with easy access from the town landing and views out toward the harbor islands. It is…
Howlands Landing Park
Howland's Landing Park sits on a hillside overlooking Kingston Bay in Duxbury's Standish Shore neighborhood, with both wooded and grassy areas plus interpretive signage and a launch area for small…
Indian Head River Fish Ladder
The Indian Head River Fish Ladder sits at Ludden's Ford Park, straddling the Pembroke and Hanover line. This large concrete structure helps migratory fish like herring and shad scale an…
Island Creek Pond
Island Creek Pond is one of the official Great Ponds of Massachusetts, a 35-acre body of water in the village of Tinkertown that serves as the headwaters of Island Creek.…
Island Grove Park
Island Grove Park is Abington's "Crown Jewel" -- an 11-acre park wrapped on three sides by the 35-acre Island Grove Pond, created around 1700 by damming the Shumatuscacant River. Shaded…
Jacobs Pond Conservation Area
The Jacobs Pond conservation area consists of about 260 acres of land in Norwell. The pond itself consists of about 60 acres of man-made pond and 200 acres of land.The…
Jones River Landing
Jones River Landing serves as the headquarters of the Jones River Watershed Association, and it is a good spot to learn about the river before or after exploring it --…
King Oak Hill Park
Weymouth's King Oak Hill Park is a 24-acre hilltop with sweeping views of the Boston skyline, wheelchair- and stroller-friendly, with a 0.25-mile paved walking loop and a shade pavilion at…
Lake Holbrook
A short, pleasant trail extends about 0.1 mile along the shore of Lake Holbrook, through light woodland that's grassy in places, mossy in others, with the occasional bench offering a…
Little Sandy Pond
Little Sandy Bottom Pond is a small pond in a neighborhood setting in Pembroke, ideal for swimming, skating, and paddling for residents and non-residents alike. Fishing is permitted here too,…
Ludden’s Ford Park (Hanover)
Luddam's Ford Park is a trail located off Water Street in Hanover. It is connected to the Indian Head Trail. The combination of the two trail systems can be around…