Boston Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Acadia National Park
Atlantic coast shoreline, mixed hardwood and spruce/fir forest, mountains, and lakes, as well as several offshore islands.

Adams National Historical Park
The park is located in Quincy, MA and encompasses 5 generations of the Adam's family. The site includes the birthplaces of John and John Quincy,Adams, the "Old House" which was home to 4 generations of Adam's, and the Stone Library which is home to more than 14,000 historic volumes and a collection of John Quincy Adam's books.

Assateague Island National Seashore
Bands of wild horses freely roam amongst plants and native animals that have adapted to a life of sand, salt and wind.

Boston African American National Historic Site
The site includes 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th century African-American community. The sites are linked by the 1.6 mile (2.5 km) Black Heritage Trail.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
Boston Harbor Islands national park area includes 34 islands situated within the Greater Boston shoreline. The islands are rich in natural and cultural resources.

Boston National Historical Park
Boston National Historic Park includes Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and Old North Church. In the city ol Charlestown, included are the Bunker Hill Monument and the Charlestown Navy Yard. Most of the historic sites are connected by the Freedom Trail, a 2.5 mile walking tour.

Cape Cod National Seashore
Cape Cod National Seashore comprises 43,604 acres of shoreline and upland landscape features, including a forty-mile long stretch of pristine sandy beach, dozens of clear, deep, freshwater kettle ponds, and upland scenes that depict evidence of how people have used the land. A variety of historic structures are within the boundary of the Seashore.

Castle Clinton National Monument
Castle Clinton National Monument, named for Dewitt Clinton the Mayor of NYC, was a fully armed and staffed fort constructed to defend New York Harbor, although it never fired upon the enemy during the War of 1812. It was changed from a fort to an immigrant landing depot for approximately 34 years.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
The Delaware Water Gap preserves 40 miles of the Delaware River and approximately 70,0000 acres of land along the river's New Jersey & Pennsyvania shores. A one-day auto tour of the park can include waterfalls, rural scenery, and historic Millbrook Village.

Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
This is the 1840s home of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America's finest and most influential writers.

Edison National Historic Site
Edison National Historic Site provides a unique opportunity to interpret and experience important aspects of America's industrial, social and economic past, and to learn from the legacy of the world's best known inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
The only National Historic Site dedicated to a First Lady, Val-Kill, her home on the Hundson River, welcomes the visitor as Mrs. Roosevelt welcomed her many guests.

Ellis Island National Monument
Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million steerage and third class steamship passengers who entered the United States through the port of New York were legally and medically inspected at Ellis Island.

Essex National Heritage Area
The Area features historic seaports and New England town commons, industrial mills and pristine beaches, renowned museums and wildlife refuges, working farms and inviting natural trails.

Federal Hall National Memorial
26 Wall Street was the site of New York City's City Hall. The First Congress met in the Federal Hall, and wrote the Bill of Rights, and George Washington was inaugurated here as President on April 30, 1789.

Fire Island National Seashore
Pristine ocean shores, an ancient maritime forest, legacies of lighthouse keepers, and the historic estate of William Floyd are just a few of the recreational, natural, and cultural resources of Fire Island National Seashore.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
The valiant defense of the fort by 1,000 dedicated Americans inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner. The defenders of Fort McHenry stopped the British advance on Baltimore and helped to preserve the United States of America. Following the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, the fort never again came under attack. It remained an active military post off and on for the next 100 years.

Fort Stanwix National Monument
Fort Stanwix is where our shared heritage comes alive everyday, and explore the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the 18th century. Discover how people endured harsh lives along the Oneida Carrying Place, the superhighway of the 18th century, and directly contributed to the American victory at Saratoga and westward expansion through New York s gateway to the west.

Fort Washington Park
Fort Washington sits on high ground overlooking the Potomac River and offers a grand view of Washington and the Virginia shoreline. Today, only one silent gun stands behind the masonry wall-the last armament of the powerful fort that once guarded the water approach to our Nation's Capital. The old fort is one of the few U.S. seacoast fortifications still in its original form.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nations foremost parkmaker.

General Grant National Memorial
This memorial to Ulysses S. Grant, victorious Union commander of the Civil War, includes the tomb of General Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. During the Civil War, Grant's tenacity and boldness led to victories in the Battles of Vicksburg and Chattanooga and Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox. A grateful nation twice elected Grant to serve as President of the United States,

Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church was built between 1698 - 1700 and is the oldest church in Pennsylvania. Revolutionary War patriots rest in the churchyard burial ground.

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Great Falls Park
Great Falls Park, a site that is part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, is an 800 acre park located along the Potomac River 14 miles upriver from Washington D.C.

Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Hamilton Grange National Memorial preserves the home of founding father Alexander Hamilton. This house was completed in 1802 and named "The Grange" after the Hamilton family's ancestral home in Scotland, but served as his home for only two years. On July 11, 1804, Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel with his political rival Aaron Burr.

Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site
The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site contains "Springwood", the lifelong home of America's only 4-term President.

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is one of the finest examples of a rural American 19th century iron plantation. The buildings include a blast furnace, the ironmaster's mansion, and auxiliary structures.

Independence National Historical Park
Independence National Historical Park is often referred to as the birthplace of our nation. Visitors can see the Liberty Bell, an international symbol of freedom, and Independence Hall, where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were created.

John F Kennedy National Historic Site
John F. Kennedy National Historic Site preserves the birthplace in 1917 and boyhood home of the 35th President of the United States, and represents the social and political beginnings of one of the world's most prominent families.

Longfellow National Historic Site
For almost half a century (1837-1882) this was the home of one of the world's foremost poets, scholars and educators, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow House was a favorite gathering place for many prominent philosophers and artists including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, and Charles Sumner.

Lowell National Historical Park
The history of America's Industrial Revolution is commemorated in Lowell, Massachusetts. The park includes textile mills, worker housing, 5.6 miles of canals, and 19th-century commercial buildings.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. Opened in June 1998, Vermont's first national park preserves and interprets the historic Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is found in Kinderhook, New York. The Eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren purchased the estate in 1839 during his Presidency

Minute Man National Historical Park
Created in 1959, Minute Man National Historical Park preserves and protects the significant historic sites, structures, properties and landscapes associated with the opening battles of the American Revolution. Today, Minute Man consists of over 900 acres of land which wind along original segments of the Battle Road for April 19, 1775.

Morristown National Historical Park
Morristown National Historical Park preserves sites in the Morristown, New Jersey area occupied by General George Washington and the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War .

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park commemorates the world's preeminent whaling port during the 19th century. A variety of cultural landscapes, historic buildings, museum collections, and archives preserve this history and recount the stories of a remarkable era.

Roger Williams National Memorial
Roger Williams National Memorial commemorates the life of the founder of Rhode Island and a champion of the ideal of religious freedom.

Roosevelt Campobello International Park
The Roosevelt Campobello International Park is a unique example of international cooperation. This 2800 acre park is a joint memorial by Canada and the United States. Here are the cottage and the grounds where President Roosevelt vacationed, the waters where he sailed, and the woods, bogs, and beaches where he tramped and relaxed.

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, from 1885 until his death in 1919

Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
Saint Croix Island International Historic site is a monument to the beginning of the United States and Canada. .

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site consists of 150 acres including the home, gardens and studios of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), one of America's foremost sculptors.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site
The Site documents the development of the Atlantic triangular trade during the colonial period, the role of privateering during the Revolutionary War, and the international maritime trade, especially with the Far East..

Saratoga National Historical Park
Site of the first significant American military victory during the Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most decisive battles in world history. The park now comprises three separate units: the 4 square mile Battlefield in Stillwater, New York, the General Philip Schuyler House eight miles north in Schuylerville and the Saratoga Monument in the nearby village of Victory.

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
This is the site of the first integrated ironworks in North America, 1646-1668. It includes the reconstructed blast furnace, forge, rolling mill, and a restored seventeenth century house.

Springfield Armory National Historic Site
After nearly two centuries of continuous production of rifles and muskets used by Americas armed forces in every war in the nations history, the armory closed its gates and fell silent. Reopened in 1978 as the Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the original 1840s arsenal houses the worlds largest collection of American military firearms.

Statue Of Liberty National Monument
Located in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States.

Steamtown National Historic Site
Steamtown National Historic Site preserves the era of the steam engine which lumbers back to life. The cinders, grease, oil, steam and people of railroading have returned.

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, became one of the 18th century's greatest champions of American and Polish freedom. The house at the corner of Third and Pine Streets, where Thaddeus Kosciuszko resided during the winter of 1797-1798, serves as a memorial to his life and accomplishments.

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, lived at this site from his birth, until he was 14 years old. The reconstructed house contains five period rooms, two museum galleries and a bookstore.

Touro Synagogue National Historic Site
Touro Synagogue, dedicated in 1762, is the oldest synagogue in the United States and the only one that survives from the colonial era. The synagogue was designed by noted colonial architect Peter Harrison and is considered one of the finest examples of 18th century architecture in America.

Valley Forge National Historical Park
Valley Forge National Historical Park commemorates the collective sacrifices and dedication of the Revolutionary War generation.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
The Vanderbilt Estate in Hyde Park, New York is perhaps the best, most intact example of the types of estates constructed by wealthy industrialists in the 19th century.

USDA Forest Service

Green Mountain National Forest

White Mountain National Forest

Fish and Wildlife Service

Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge

Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Block Island National Wildlife Refuge

Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Conscience Point National Wildlife Refuge

Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge

Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

John Hay National Wildlife Refuge

Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge

Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge

Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge

Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge

Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge

Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge

Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge

Wapack National Wildlife Refuge

Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge

National Ocean Service

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

US Army Corps of Engineers

Aylesworth Creek Lake

Mansfield Hollow Lake

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Weir Farm National Historic Site
American Impressionist painter, J. Alden Weir (1852-1919) summered at this country retreat for nearly 40 years. The 60 acre site preserves J. Alden Weir's home, studio, barns and outbuildings.