Boston Public Gardens and Boston Common have flat paved walkways and are great places for
walking, baby carriage, or wheel chair. The spring flowers bloom in April (Third to Fourth Week in April)
Boston Common was once a public pasture where cows grazed. Now the paved walkways connect to the
flowered and tree-lined paths of the Boston Public Gardens, famed for the swan boats and spring flowers.
April starts the Magnolias and flowering trees and by the third week in April the tulips are in full bloom.
Just beside
Boston Public
Gardens on
Beacon Street you
can visit Cheers
Pub for a nostalgic
brew at the bar
amid all the
memorabilia from
the famed TV
comedy.
Boston in mid April and Early
May sees flowers and
photographers filling the
Boston Public Garden
Boston Copley Society
painters set up and paint the
swan boats and flowering trees.
Boston Common and Public Gardens, Walks of Boston
Boston Public Gardens in Spring: Tulips flower mid to end
of April
Boston Public Gardens
Boston Public Gardens, June Swan Boats
Boston Public Gardens: In April. The swan boats start their cruises and the
flowering trees burst with color. Around mid-April tulips and others fill the beds.
By the first
week in June
the Tulips have
passed but
there is plenty
to keep
photographers
busy
Boston Common
Adjacent to Boston Public Gardens, the Boston Common provides grassy
areas and paved walking trails. A parking garage on Charles street beneath
the west end is just $11.per day on weekends.
Walk ways Around Boston Harbor
Boston Common, State House
Boston Public Gardens in Spring: Tulips flower mid to end of April
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The Boston Common and The Public
Gardens make Boston a great place for
walking particularly in the spring when the
Tulips bloom during the Third to Fourth
Week in April
Boston Public Garden's flowered and
tree-lined paths will be in full bloom in mid
April and the Swan Boats will be making their
trips around the pond.
From Boston Common Park street entrance, Boston's subway system takes travelers to Cambridge and its art
museums near Harvard Square, the House of Blues and its Gospel lunches, ethnic restaurants and the
glass-flower collection at Harvard University's Natural History Museum available from the station at Harvard
Square. Boston's Red Line serves the Kennedy Memorial Library, and the Green Line the long-time home of
baseball's Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
A walk on part of the freedom trail leads to the aquarium and the island shuttle where you can take a boat to
spend a day of island-hopping in Boston Harbor. Fort Warren, the first of five stops, dates to the Civil War
and once held prisoner Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy. Each island has walking
trails, history and, of course, a resident ghost.
Metered parking is available on the city streets
that surround the park but these fill early (two
Hour Max). An underground parking garage is
available at the entrance to the Boston Common
between the two parks
Parking:
Located between the two parks on
Charles Street and below the Boston
Common , the Boston Common Garage
provides parking beneath the west end
of the park The cost is just $11.per day
on weekends.
The Freedom Trail starts in Boston Common. Follow the plaques and
the red brick markers through the historic parts of Boston to see places
of significance during events that led to the Revolutionary War
Boston Transportation,
Getting to Boston: Air service reaches Boston's Logan
Airport (BOS) from other major hubs and cities. Rental cars
are available at the airport. From the airport boat shuttles
reach the City of Boston at several places,
Transit service and taxis reach the city after a short drive.
Passenger Boat service leaves daily from Boston to the tip
of Cape Cod (May -September) at Provincetown. Bikes can
go aboard.
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