Beaver Brook is really three separate parks, all under one name and POTA reference number. Most conspicuously, just off Trapelo Road in Belmont is a playground and spray deck—not the best POTA site in summer but it does have a ...

When you ask people in Boston about the Blue Hills, many will tell you that they were built up during the expansion of the young city as the harbor was dredged. One has visions of long trains of horse-drawn carts ...

At 2,602 feet, Mt. Everett is the second-tallest mountain in Massachusetts, behind 3,489-foot Mt. Greylock. To be fair, the two are part of different geologic formations, with Greylock astride the Taconic and Everett sitting at the tip of the Berkshires, ...

Mt. Tom was the first place I revisited after hitting 100 unique parks, which should tell you something about its appeal. The major attraction at Mt. Tom is classic Holyoke basalt. And dinosaur tracks ...

Near the end of the last ice age quite a bit of North America was covered in a thick layer of ice, in some place reaching a thickness of two miles. Around 12,500 years ago the planet began to warm ...

I was completely unprepared for what was around the corner ...