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Newton Park and Conservation Lands
ACQUIRED: 1999
ADMINISTERED BY: Boston
Parks and Recreation
FEATURES:
You can enjoy Millennium Park on its own,
or as part of a trail network leading (with a few gaps) all the way to Nahanton
Park in Newton.
The park used to be a landfill hill. Today it
consists of six miles of handicapped-accessible walking trails,
playing fields, a canoe launch on the Charles, a nature trail, and
wonderful views of the Blue Hills, Newton's hills, and downtown
Boston.

A bridge across Saw Mill Brook connects this
new park with the Oak Hill trails that run through Brook
Farm and connect to Charles River
Path - Wells Avenue and on to Nahanton
Park. You can also paddle between the canoe docks in Nahanton
Park and Millennium Park. ACCESSIBILITY:
The trail system is wheelchair-accessible.
HISTORY:
Site of the Gardner Street Landfill. Dirt excavated
from the Big Dig
was used to cover over the top. In 2000 it opened as a park and
recreation center.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Boston
Area Sport Kite Championships is held in the park in June.
Article
about transformation from landfill to park.
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