Discover Boston: Parks and Neighborhoods

North End
Boston’s oldest residential neighborhood with narrow streets and a rich Italian history that can be experienced in over a dozen eateries.

Downtown

Boston Common
At 350 years old, Boston Common is America’s oldest park.

Public Garden
The first public botanical garden in America.

Rose Kennedy Greenway
A contemporary public park in the heart of Boston, named after the prominent Boston figure and Fitzgerald-Kennedy matriarch Rose Kennedy.

Back Bay / Fenway / Kenmore
This vibrant neighborhood is home to Fenway Park, numerous colleges, universities and city cultural institutions.

Boston Esplanade
Back Bay
A riverfront park in Boston’s Back Bay area on the south bank of the Charles River.

Fenway Victory Gardens
Fenway
A beautiful example of a World War II victory garden. The victory garden trend swept America in the 1940s as a way to rally communities behind the cause and create local and beautiful sources of food to ease pressure on food supplies.

Copely Square
Back Bay
A public square and neighborhood in Boston’s Back Bay.

South Boston
Once a predominantly working class Irish Catholic neighborhood, South Boston is now home to the Seaport District and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Moakley Park
South Boston
A waterfront park with ball fields, playgrounds, basketball courts, and track fields.