Boston Map Of Attractions, Tours And Neighborhoods

Boston is emphatically not a grid, which is exactly why it is worth seeing drawn. The street plan grew out of a colonial peninsula rather than a survey, the harbor wraps the eastern edge, and the Charles River separates the city from Cambridge in a way no list of names conveys. What the map makes obvious is how tight the historic core is: almost everything on the Freedom Trail sits within a mile of Boston Common. Fenway Park is a couple of miles west on the Green Line. Harvard Square is across the river on the Red Line. This page puts every place on the site in one picture so you can group your days by geography instead of by list order.

The City On One Live Map

Start here if you are still deciding where to stay. The embed below is the ordinary interactive map, useful for judging a hotel against a train line or working out whether two things are genuinely walkable. Boston distances mislead in both directions. The walk from Boston Common to the North End looks longer than it is and takes about twenty minutes. The Harbor Islands look close and are a ferry ride. And Cambridge, which most visitors treat as a Boston neighborhood, is a separate city across the water.