Emerald Necklace

The Emerald Necklace is a long string of parks in Boston, Massachusetts designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and maintained by the City of Boston and Town of Brookline. These parks stretch from the Boston Common and Boston Public Garden in the north to Franklin Park in the south and include, from the northern end:

Nearby

Along or near the Emerald Necklace one can find:

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• The Museum of Science, Boston
• The Hatch Shell, an outdoor musical performance venue along the Esplanade, famous for the televised Fourth of July celebrations performed by the Boston Pops festival orchestra
• The Museum of Fine Arts
• The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox

The path of U.S. Highway 1 passed through the Emerald Necklace until 1989, on the following roads from north to south:

Related Topics:
U.S. Highway 1 - 1989

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• Charles Street
• Storrow Drive
• Charlesgate
• Park Drive/Fenway (one-way pair)
• Riverway
• Jamaicaway
• Arborway

From there it continued along Centre Street and VFW Parkway, two DCR-maintained roads, to Dedham. U.S. 1 now follows the route of the present I-93 through downtown Boston's Big Dig tunnels.

Related Topics:
Centre Street - VFW Parkway - Dedham - Big Dig

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