Olmsted Park

Olmsted Park improvements

This park, built by the City of Boston in collaboration with the Town of Brookline, with its woodlands, meadows, and three ponds, joins Boston and Brookline. Olmsted designed pathways and planting patterns that created a series of dramatic vistas to display the shapes, proportions and relationships of the land forms. Here one can fish in the relative seclusion of Wards Pond or stroll across the distinctive footbridges. Substantial restoration is ongoing, with bike and pedestrian paths already constructed along the Boston shore. A bike/pedestrian path system on the Brookline side from Jamaica Pond to Boylston Street (Route 9) was recently completed.

Wards Pond offers seclusion from the city

New bike path completed in 1997

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