Fun Things To Do In Boston This Weekend

Boston, Massachusetts, is New England's premier seacoast city. Along with being full of history, Boston is full of opportunities for people seeking an active lifestyle. You can easily combine sightseeing with activity, or find a quite place while in a major urban center. Walkers, hikers, runners, cyclists and skaters will find countless miles of pathways suitable to a wide range of abilities.

Mountain Bike in Stony Brook

The highest elevation in the city of Boston is in the Stony Brook Reservation on the southern tip of the city. You can ride free of city traffic in Stony Brook on 10 miles of mountain biking paths. Stony Brook contains 400 acres of rocky hills, ponds, wetlands and forest. You can get there by car or public transport on the Boston MTD Orange line.

Take the Kids to See Paul Revere's House

Boston is known as "The Cradle of Liberty" and is one of the best places in the United States to show children of all ages where the American democracy began.
Eight historic locations in Boston are connected by red brick streets, restored as they were in colonial Boston. You can start the tour at Paul Revere's house and walk to the Old South Meeting House, the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Dorchester Heights, the "USS Constitution" and Bunker Hill.
You can take in all or select just a few of the sites since the route is self directed. This path has become known as The Freedom Trial and is managed by the Boston National Historic Park.

See a Seaside Fort

Castle Island is connected to Boston by both traffic causeways and accessible pathways for walking, jogging or cycling. On Castle Island you will find a fully accessible 22-acre urban park with beaches for ocean swimming and seaside paths for strolling, jogging or cycling. While there you can take a tour of Fort Independence, built in the 19th century to protect Boston Harbor from invasion. The seaside paths connect all the way to the JFK library and offer beautiful views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Boston skyline.

See the Charles River

Walk or jog on the Charles River Esplanade. On the Boston side of the Charles River you will find almost 20 miles of pathway separate from urban street traffic.
From Boston, the Esplanade goes west, offering views of the campuses of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the river in Cambridge.
The path is complete with several groves with benches to rest your feet or get off your bike for a while. Note that the Esplanade is popular during the day but not at night.

Circle the City by Park

In central Boston, you will find the Boston Common, Boston's main public park. Circling the rest of the city by is a series of parks known as the Emerald Necklace.
Designed by the same architect who created Manhattan's Central Park, Frederick Olmstead, these parks include walkways, waterways, tennis courts, marsh reserves, picnic areas, open fields for Frisbee or running your dog.
If you want to take in an attraction, many are accessible by the pathways of the necklace. Fenway Park, the Museum of Fine Arts and the world famous Boston Symphony can all be found along the pathways of the Emerald Necklace.