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Milton, Massachusetts
Blue Hills Reservation
Seven thousand acres of woods and rocky hilltops minutes from downtown Boston, 125 miles of trails, and Great Blue Hill rising 635 feet above the whole metropolitan area.
Researched from this park's own sources. Nobody's walked it yet.
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There is a whole forest sitting right next to the city, big enough to get properly lost in — seven thousand acres of it, with a hundred and twenty-five miles of paths. Twenty-two hills stand up out of it, and the biggest one has a bare rocky top you can climb to and see the entire city spread out below you. They are called the Blue Hills because that is the color they turn when you look at them from far enough away.
One of your three free places, or the Explorer Pass. What that costs
Before you go
- Time there
- Plan on about 2 hours at the park.
- Parking
- Free at the Houghton's Pond lot on Hillside Street. Park headquarters up the road is ten-minute parking only. Dawn to dusk.
- Underfoot
- 125 miles of trails over 22 hills. The paved Summit Road is 0.9 miles one way but steep — a 9% average and 20% at its worst.
- Bathrooms
- There are bathrooms.
21 challenges written for this place
A game deals seven to fifteen of them, so no two visits are alike.
Every game includes this one
The Biggest Of Twenty-Two
Climb Great Blue Hill. There are twenty-two hills in this chain and it is the tallest one.
A few of the others
The Whole City
From the rocky top you can see the entire city. Find the tallest building in it.
Count The Other Hills
There are twenty-two hills here. Count how many of the others you can see from this one.
A Hundred And Twenty-Five Miles
There are 125 miles of trails in this park. Work out how many days it would take to walk every one.
A Forest Next To A City
All this is minutes from downtown. Decide whether it is strange that a forest this big is right there.
Down At The Pond
Find the pond and walk far enough round it that the parking lot is out of sight.
Can You Hear The City
Everyone stands still. Decide whether you can hear the city from in here, or not at all.
The rest are a surprise — that's the whole point.
Play this at Blue Hills Reservation
Free. Works with no signal once you're there.