Blue Hills Reservation Parkways
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Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
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| Location | Quincy, Milton, Canton, and Braintree in Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°13′25″N 71°4′20″W / 42.22361°N 71.07222°WCoordinates: 42°13′25″N 71°4′20″W / 42.22361°N 71.07222°W |
| Area | 45 acres (18 ha) |
| Built | 1894 |
| Architect | Charles Eliot |
| MPS | Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS |
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| Added to NRHP | August 11, 2003 |
The Blue Hills Reservation Parkways are a network of historic parkways in and around the Blue Hills Reservation, a Massachusetts state park south of Boston, Massachusetts. It consists of six roadways (in seven distinct segments) that provide circulation within the park, and that join the park to two connecting parkways, the Blue Hills Parkway and the Furnace Brook Parkway. The roadway network was designed by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, except for Green Street, which was added to the network in the 1940s. The parkways were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The first segment of Blue Hill River Road begins at a four-way junction with Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 138) and Royall Street (its western continuation) in Canton. It is about 1/2 mile in length, becoming Hillside Street at the Milton line. Its north side is dense forest with stone outcrops, and rising elevation into the hills. On the south side are a concrete sidewalk and a stone wall. The section of road provides access to Brookwood Farm, like the reservation administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).
Hillside Street is the major east-west roadway through the western portion of the park, and is where most of its administrative functions are located. It winds for 1.65 miles (2.66 km) through the heart of the park, passing the park police headquarters among other facilities. Its first major junction is with the second segment of Blue Hill River Road, which exits to the south, just west of Houghton's Pond. After passing the headquarters area, it has junctions with Unquity Road and Chickatawbut Roads before crossing Pine Tree Brook near the reservation's northern border. The parkway ends there, but the roadway continues as a Milton municipal roadway, traveling roughly northeast in a straight line until it meets Randoph Avenue (Massachusetts Route 28).
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