Billington Street Park

Plymouth's 4-acre Billington Street Park centers on a charming red wooden covered bridge over Town Brook, with a grassy picnic area, interpretive signage, and two rain gardens. The site marks the former location of the Billington Street Dam -- removed in 2002, the first coastal dam removal in Massachusetts, which restored natural fish passage and let migratory herring reach their spawning grounds in Billington Sea after generations of blockage. It connects directly into the 1.5-mile Town Brook Trail: head upstream for Town Brook Patuxet Preserve, or downstream through Holmes Park, Town Brook Park, the Plimoth Grist Mill, and Brewster Gardens all the way to the harbor at Pilgrim Memorial State Park.