13 regions · 39 parks

Where to play

Parks come in clusters — two or three near the same town, close enough to do in a weekend. Play all of one and your family earn its title.

• Concord

  3 parks · 67 challenges · Massachusetts

  Three places within a few miles of each other: a pond, a river full of birds, and the road the war started on.

• Chelmsford

  3 parks · 69 challenges · Massachusetts

  Three pieces of one town: a forest full of glacial boulders, a mill pond with three thousand feet of shore, and an old cranberry bog you can walk straight out into.

• Lincoln

  3 parks · 65 challenges · Massachusetts

  A battlefield, a working farm and thirty acres of sculpture, all in one town.

• Eastham

  3 parks · 70 challenges · Massachusetts

  A salt marsh, a kettle pond the sea broke into, and three lighthouses hiding in a wood.

• Lowell

  3 parks · 69 challenges · Massachusetts

  Canals and mills, two miles of riverfront, and a thousand acres of woods on top of the same city.

• The Berkshires

  3 parks · 64 challenges · Massachusetts

  The highest point in the state, a quartzite peak you can see it from, and a ledge above the Housatonic with more ferns than almost anywhere.

• Boston & the Blue Hills

  3 parks · 64 challenges · Massachusetts

  A granite spike over Charlestown, seven thousand acres of hills, and the river that runs between them to the sea.

• Wachusett

  3 parks · 64 challenges · Massachusetts

  A mountain you can drive up, an old farm below it, and a forest across the way with a ninety-five-mile trail through the edge.

• The South Coast

  3 parks · 69 challenges · Massachusetts

  A whaling city, a Revolutionary fort across the harbour, and five hundred acres of woods with a cart path running through the middle.

• Carlisle

  3 parks · 68 challenges · Massachusetts

  A working dairy farm, a field full of bobolinks, and a pond a man made because he wanted to watch ducks.

• Saugus

  3 parks · 65 challenges · Massachusetts

  A seventeenth-century ironworks, a forest with two lakes in it, and six hundred acres of salt marsh.

• Salem

  3 parks · 69 challenges · Massachusetts

  A half-mile wharf into the harbour, a peninsula with a lighthouse and a fort from 1643, and a coastline that has been a park since 1888.

• Cape Ann

  3 parks · 65 challenges · Massachusetts

  A flooded granite quarry on a cliff, a seaside meadow with a brook through it, and six hundred acres of woods somebody spent a lifetime buying.

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