I promote a lot of tours on this blog, but if there’s one tour you must take this summer it’s the Exploring the Charles River Basin tour offered by Boston By Foot guides (including myself). The tour steps off at 2 pm on Sunday, June 27th from Nashua Street Park just opposite the exit from the Science Park MBTA station (exit to the right, not toward the Museum of Science). Admission for this tour is $15/person and $5 for card-carrying members of Boston By Foot. A great excuse for getting a membership now!
Not to frighten anyone off but this tour covers about two-miles of some-times rough ground with little protection from the elements. So come prepared with appropriate clothing and fresh liquids. The tour lasts approximately 2 hours but you can duck out pretty easily at the 90-minute mark if you need to.
While Exploring the Charles River Basin, you will:
- discover three brand-new parks that most people don’t know exist.
- history of the Charles River and its ever-encroaching banks
- hear mellifluous words like bascule, freshet, and sluiceway and find out what they mean too
- cross not one but two dams
- see the only city jail with a waterfront view and a park across the street
- ponder our litigious society
- find what remains of Miller’s River
- get a new perspective on the world’s widest cable-stayed bridge
- and without fail you’ll see all manner of transportation, roads, railways, bridges, and waterways
Panorama of the Mountains 