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Blue Hills Reservation is a 7,000-acre (2,800 ha) state park in Norfolk County, Massachusetts in the United States. Managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation , it covers parts of Milton , Quincy , Braintree , Canton , Randolph , and Dedham .
The Big Blue Hills are in the Southern Inner California Coast Ranges System, adjacent to the Diablo Range on the west. Their highest point is 564 metres (1,850 ft) in elevation. Their highest point is 564 metres (1,850 ft) in elevation.
The Blue Hills Reservation Parkways are a network of historic parkways in and around the Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park south of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of six roadways (in seven distinct segments) that provide circulation within the park, and that join the park to two connecting parkways, the Blue Hills Parkway ...
Furnace Brook Parkway begins at the east end of Wampatuck Road, one of the Blue Hills Reservation Parkways, located at the gated northeastern entrance to the Blue Hills Reservation at Bunker Hill Road in West Quincy. The reservation gates at this intersection are open during the day and closed from 8 PM to 7 AM.
The parkway is a connecting road between the Blue Hills Reservation and the Neponset River Reservation, [2] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1] The parkway's northern terminus is a six-way intersection in southern Mattapan, a neighborhood in the far south of Boston.
Blue Hills Ski Area is located on the western face of Great Blue Hill in Canton, Massachusetts. [1] This land is part of the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Blue Hills has eight trails covering a vertical drop of 309 feet (94 m).
In 1985, Boston's Metropolitan District Commission purchased 22 acres, including Granite Railway Quarry, as the Quincy Quarries Reservation. A solution to the public safety problem was finally found with the massive Big Dig highway project in Boston. Dirt from the new highway tunnels was trucked in to fill the main quarries.
The summit of Nobscot Hill commands a 360-degree view including Boston, MetroWest, the Blue Hills, Lower Kearsarge, Mount Monadnock, Mount Wachusett, Mount Agamenticus, and all of the unremarkable bumps to the SouthWest. Currently, the foliage obscures much of the view from the summit, unless one climbs the fire tower when it is open, but other ...