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West Roxbury
Boston
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Boston's most suburban-feeling neighborhood. Single-family homes, leafy streets, and the wild Stony Brook Reservation.
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What to do
- •Climb Millennium Park for sunset Charles views
- •Walk the Brook Farm transcendentalist site
- •Centre Street stroll
- •Sled at Millennium in winter
Walking trails
Up to the summit of the former landfill — surprise meadow + skyline view.
Through the 1840s utopian commune site (Hawthorne lived here briefly).
Trail access into the 475-acre reservation.
Events
- •West Roxbury Day (Sept)
- •Centre Street holiday stroll (Dec)
Fun facts
- ✦Brook Farm (1841) was a transcendentalist utopian commune — Nathaniel Hawthorne was a member.
- ✦Millennium Park is a capped landfill — the meadow on top is one of the highest points in Boston.
- ✦Annexed by Boston in 1874 — but residents still half-jokingly call it 'a separate town.'
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