1,100-acre (4.5 km2; 450 ha) chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted
General Information
Access hours may vary slightly by park section
How to Get There
From Downtown Boston and Back Bay hotels: Travel south via public transit or car toward Back Bay, Fenway, or Jamaica Plain; the Emerald Necklace is a connected chain of parks accessible from multiple entry points including the Public Garden, Back Bay Fens, Jamaica Pond, and Franklin Park.
Overview
The Emerald Necklace consists of a 1,100-acre (4.5 km2; 450 ha) chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. It was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and gets its name from the way the planned chain appears to hang from the "neck" of the Boston peninsula.
Overview
The Necklace comprises half of the City of Boston's park acreage, parkland in the Town of Brookline, and parkways and park edges under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From Boston Common to Franklin Park it is approximately seven miles by foot or bicycle through the parks.
The Emerald Necklace includes:
- Boston Common
- Public Garden
- Commonwealth Avenue Mall
- The Fens
- Forsyth Park
- The Riverway
- Olmsted Park
- Jamaica Pond
- Jamaicaway
- Arborway
- Arnold Arboretum
- Franklin Park
The Emerald Necklace begins near Boston's Downtown Crossing, proceeds along the Boston-Brookline border, then curves into Jamaica Plain. At the south border of Arnold Arboretum, at the point most distant from its beginning, the Emerald Necklace is in Roslindale. It then hooks back up into Roxbury and Dorchester.
Olmsted's original plan called for a "U"-shaped necklace which terminated at Boston Harbor. The final link, the Dorchesterway, was never realized.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Emerald Necklace", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
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