Ludden’s Ford Park (Pembroke)
The Pembroke side of Ludden's Ford Park is 34 acres of open meadow and forested upland on West Elm Street, right on the banks of the Indian Head River. It…
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Maquan Pond and Cranberry Cove
Cranberry Cove is a seasonal swimming beach on Maquan Pond in Hanson, with year-round car-top boat access (gas motors prohibited) and seasonal ice skating. It sits directly adjacent to Camp…
Marshall Joyce Wildlife Sanctuary
Marshall Joyce Wildlife Sanctuary is a small, one-acre patch of coastal forest and salt marsh in Kingston, abutting the Jones River, with a primitive trail off River Street. There is…
Marshfield Launch and Brooks-Tilden Shipyard
Marshfield Launch and Brooks-Tilden Shipyard is a 15-acre conservation parcel sitting directly on the North River, just upstream of the Union Street Bridge. It is a working access point as…
Merrymount Park
Merrymount Park is an 80-acre grassy hilltop park with ornamental plantings, bordered partly by oak, pine, and pitch pine forest, and directly abutting the salt marshes around Black's Creek, which…
Mildred Cushing Woods
Mildred Cushing Woods is a pine-and-beech woodland with scattered rocky outcroppings and plenty of ferns and blueberry shrubs. An additional access point at 26 Cushing Street adds another half mile…
Myles Standish State Forest
Myles Standish State Forest, spanning Plymouth and Carver, is the largest publicly owned recreation area in southeastern Massachusetts at over 12,400 acres, and one of the largest intact pitch pine-scrub…
Nathaniel Thomas Mill
The Nathaniel Thomas Mill in Hanson occupies a genuinely significant historic site: in 1694-1695, Colonel Nathaniel Thomas built the first dam in Plymouth Colony to power a water wheel here,…
North River at Brick Kiln Ln
Brick Kiln Yard was once a busy shipyard on the North River in Pembroke, active from 1730 to 1848, with two separate yards often building three or four vessels side…
Norwell Town Landing
The Norwell Town Landing sits on the North River at Bridge Street, right at the Union Street Bridge, with a boat ramp reserved for Norwell residents (non-residents can launch across…
OLDHAM POND TOWN LANDING
The Oldham Pond Town Landing provides public access to the 189-acre Oldham Pond for swimming, paddling, and small motorboats, open to both residents and non-residents. This town-owned facility includes a…
Peter Igo Park
Peter Igo Park sits in the Brant Rock village of Marshfield, with basketball, tennis/pickleball, beach volleyball, and bocce courts, a small playground, and a launch for non-motorized boats and rowing…
Pond Meadow Park
Pond Meadow Park is a 320-acre property spanning Braintree and Weymouth, popular for jogging, biking, cross-country skiing, fishing, camping, and non-motorized boating. Two miles of paved trail circle the 20-acre…
Poor Meadow Brook Conservation Area
Poor Meadow Brook Conservation Area in Hanson features a 1-mile trail through woods and wetlands, split into two intersecting loops along Poor Meadow Brook and the Shumatuscacant River. There is…
Powder Point Bridge
Powder Point Bridge is a historic Duxbury landmark, open to the public, offering gorgeous views of Duxbury Bay and serving as the access point to both Duxbury Beach Park and…
Rexhame Beach Trail
Rexhame Beach is a unique town trail - and perfect all year round. While our initial visit was in the blustery Winter months, the idea of taking a summer stroll…
Russell & Sawmill Ponds Conservation Area
Russell and Sawmill Ponds Conservation Area in Plymouth centers on two connected ponds, with trails threading through the surrounding pine barrens and mixed forest. It is one of several Plymouth…
Scituate Harbor (Big parking lot)
Scituate Harbor's main parking lot on Cole Parkway is the primary access point to the half-mile Scituate Harborwalk, a concrete walkway with a guardrail that overlooks Satuit Brook and the…
Scituate Harbor (Jericho Road)
The Jericho Road entrance to Scituate Harbor picks up the Harborwalk near its far end, where the concrete path continues past the Scituate Town Pier and the Bates House before…
Scituate Harbor (Lighthouse)
Scituate Lighthouse, also known as Old Scituate Light, is an iconic and beloved landmark welcoming mariners into Scituate Harbor. Built around 1811, it was the eleventh lighthouse constructed in the…
Shifting Lots Preserve
Shifting Lots Preserve in Plymouth sits along Cape Cod Bay, near Ellisville Harbor State Park, with terrain that is generally flat but often loose and sandy -- come prepared with…
Smith Beach, Watson Park + Fore River
Watson Park is a 22-acre riverside park on the Fore River in Braintree, with athletic fields, a playground, a seasonal splash pad, and access to Smith Beach and the mile-long…
Stetson Pond
Stetson Pond Beach in Pembroke features a small pond in a quiet setting, ideal for swimming, paddling, and seasonal ice skating for residents and non-residents alike. Fishing is permitted, but…
Sunset Lake
Sunset Lake is a 57-acre lake and recreation area in Braintree, stocked each spring by the state with brown and rainbow trout. There's no dedicated trail here, but the grounds…
The Spit
This iconic 1.8-mile barrier beach walk features an elevated boardwalk extending through pristine salt marsh to a sandy spit at the mouth of the North River. A protected shorebird nesting…
Three Rivers Basin
Three Rivers Basin is a 29-acre former cranberry bog along Pine Brook in Kingston that connects the Hathaway Preserve to the Cranberry Watershed Preserve, forming an important wildlife corridor between…
Triphammer Pond Conservation Area
Triphammer Pond Conservation Area consists of 98 acres and was acquired by Hingham in 1945. Although not well documented on maps, Triphammer is connected to the Wompatuck State Park trail…
Webb Memorial State Park
Webb Memorial State Park is a peninsula that extends half a mile into Hingham Bay. Visitors are treated to scenic views of Boston's harbor and skyline, and groups can rent…
Wompatuck Pond
Wampatuck Pond, located next to the Hanson Town Hall, is suitable for fishing, paddling, and seasonal ice skating, with a ramp for small boats (swimming is not permitted). This manmade…
Wompatuck State Park – Doane Street/Cohasset Entrance
The Doane Street entrance in Cohasset provides another way into the sprawling 3,500-acre Wompatuck State Park, which stretches across four towns -- Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, and Norwell. Doane Street itself…
Wompatuck State Park – Leavitt Street Entrance (Hingham)
This alternate entrance to the 3,500+ acre Wompatuck State Park, at the end of Leavitt Street in Hingham, offers access for both pedestrians and cyclists. There is a moderate hill…
Wompatuck State Park – Main Entrance (Hingham)
The main entrance to Wompatuck State Park in Hingham gives access to a genuinely massive property spanning four towns -- Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, and Norwell -- with over 3,500 acres,…
Woodbine Island Conservation Area
The diminutive Woodbine Island Conservation Area in Weymouth features a 0.16-mile trail along the edge of Whitman's Pond, plus a small section of shoreline suitable for fishing and for launching…