A New Hiking Trail Reveals Some Hidden Secrets Of Boston

Walking City Trails has a new way to see Boston on foot. For more, ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hidden in plain sight. A new walking trail in Boston
stretches from West Roxbury, up and down hilly terrain in
city streets until it spills out into the ocean at
Castle Island.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
So the basic theme is showing off the wealth of
Boston's green space ecosystem.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's called the City on the Hills Trail. Miles Howard
is the main organizer here. He's showing me the portion
of the trail that runs through the gorgeous views at
Highland Park in Roxbury.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And we're standing just about twenty feet away from where
you would exit the park heading southeast toward Boston Harbor.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The trail is drawn through parks and along roadways, weaving
and bobbing to find the best possible views in green spaces.
He says, part of the point of this thirty one
mile span, a.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Lot of people assume that to go for a hike,
you've got to be in the back country, you got
to be far away from a city.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
You don't need to be in the middle of nowhere
to enjoy a good hike. Kyle Shaffel w BUS Boston's
news radio