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Alewife

Cambridge
Red#walking#nature#parks

Red Line terminus that feels more like a park-and-ride than a neighborhood — but step past the garage and you're in the Alewife Brook Reservation, where great blue herons stalk the wetlands a half-mile from the train.

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nearest T
Red
trails
3 mapped · 19.3 mi
in
Cambridge
What to do
  • Walk the 2.25-mi Fresh Pond loop
  • Bike the Minuteman start (16 mi to Bedford)
  • Catch a 76 bus to Hanscom Field
  • Birding the boardwalks at sunrise
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Walking trails
Events

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Fun facts & history
  • Named for the alewife herring that still spawn in the brook each spring.
  • Deepest underground T station in the system at 102 ft.
  • The Alewife garage is built directly atop the brook — listen for water under the floor.
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Boston facts
  • Boston was founded in 1630 — the oldest major city in the U.S.
  • The MBTA opened the country's first subway in 1897 (the Tremont Street tunnel, now part of the Green Line).
  • There are over 250,000 college students living in Greater Boston during the school year.
  • Fenway Park (1912) is the oldest active Major League Baseball stadium.
  • The Boston Marathon (1897) is the world's oldest annual marathon.
  • The MBTA color codes (Red, Blue, Green, Orange) date to a 1965 redesign by Cambridge Seven Associates.
  • September 1 is unofficial 'Allston Christmas' — the city's lease cycle dumps couches, lamps, and rugs onto every curb.
  • Boston's tides swing ~9.5 ft on average — among the largest of any major U.S. city.
  • Dunkin' was founded in Quincy in 1950 as 'Open Kettle.'
  • The Charles River is brackish — fresh upstream of the dam, salty downstream.
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