parks

Ringgold Park Granite or Green

civilrectitude — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:25:44 +0000

Ringgold Park is located off of Waltham Street in the South End, between Washington and Tremont Street. After initially encroaching upon the Monday evening Salsa lessons held outside the Balckstone Community Center; where I honestly hesitated at the thought of participating in this festival of Summer residents frolicking to Latin rhythms, I continued on to my planned destination.

CARE ABOUT YOUR STATE PARKS? GO TO THE EOEEA FY 2011 BUDGET HEARING THIS MONDAY

Boston Park Advocates — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:06:28 +0000

Do you care about basic services in your DCR parks in Boston? Go to the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs' FY 2011’s budget hearing with Secretary Ian Bowles on Monday, November 23, 2009, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at 100 Cambridge Street, 2nd floor, Conference Room B. Submit written comments prior to the hearing, or up until November 30, 2009. Bring a picture I.D. for security.

I tawt I taw a puddingtone

adamg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:58:14 +0000

Dan Burgess introduces us to Boston's "urban wilds" - spots of land throughout the city that aim to preserve what's left of Boston from pre-European days:

... Recently, I had the opportunity to spend a day sprucing up an Urban Wild site. Puddingstone Garden is located on a small hill in Roxbury on the corner of Normandy Street and Sea Street, near the Franklin Park Zoo. This Urban Wild is named after the Roxbury Puddingstone rock formations prevalent in the park that literally look like pudding with stones sprinkled throughout. ...

Meanwhile, Fabulously Out There goes for a walk along the Chelsea River Urban Wildlife Area and finds something pretty wild, if not exactly a natural, pre-1620s vista.

Do you have your passport?

Kaz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:07:26 +0000

On June 28th, DCR kicked off it's new Park Passport, a stamp book with stamp stations placed in 76 parks across the state (15 parks in the Boston area, including John Paul II, Castle Island, and the Southwest Corridor). Each park has a different stamp, so you have to go to all of the parks if you want to collect all of the stamps. When you complete any one of the 5 regions, you can use the completed passport at the regional office (starting August 15) to receive a t-shirt with the stamp pictures on it for that region.