Getting an idea from the 1,000 places to See Before You Die, Massachusetts decided to put together a list of 1,000 great places in Massachusetts.
I decided to document each of the Great Places.
I created a Google Spreadsheet [Doug and the 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts] of all of the Great Places, a map location, whether I have been there and my story about the “Great Place.” I also started a Google Map of the 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts.
Yellow markers are places I’ve been
Green markers are places I’ve been and have published some information.
Blue markers are place I have not been.
Sitting down and doing the math. If I visit one place per day, it would take about three years to visit each one. This is going to be a long project.
Here is what I have so far:
- Neponset River Greenway
- Old North Church
- Ames Nowell State Park
- Mary Baker Eddy Historic House
- Sullivan’s on Castle Island
- Castle Island
- Borderland State Park
- Ames Free Library
- The Children’s Museum of Easton
- Higgins Armory Museum
- Standing on Top of the Hub at the Prudential’s Skywalk
- Gravestone Peeping at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Historic Franklin Town Common
- Wondering about Holliston’s Arch Bridge
- Central Square
- Harvard Square
- Looking at Lookout Farm
- Climbing the Maze at Boston Children’s Museum
- You Can’t Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
- Davis Mega Maze
- Wachusett Dam
- Bacon Free Library
- Bounding Down the Boardwalk at Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary
- Rebecca Nurse Homestead
- Peabody Institute Library
- Glen Magna Estate
- Chomping on Corn at Connors Farm
- The Esplanade
- Strolling Through Boston’s Public Garden
- My Lunchtime Walk to Paul Revere’s House
- Driving Through D.W. Field Park
- The Ponkapoag Pond Trails
- Hiking up to the Blue Hills Observatory
- Blue Hills Trailside Museum
- Snacking on Dinner Rolls at the Parker House
- Hanover Street, in the North End
- Boston’s Athenaeum
- Boston Common
- Russells Mills
- Aquinnah Gay Head Cliffs
- Cuttyhunk Island
- Padanaram Village
- Wachusett Mountain and the Climb to the Clouds
- State House
- Longfellow Bridge (x2)
- Dr. Paul Dudley White Bicycle Path
- Wayside Inn’s Grist Mill
- U.S.S. Constitution, Charlestown Navy Yard, Constitution Museum, and the U.S.S. Cassin Young
- Cheers – Does Anyone Know Your Name?
- Old South Meeting House
- Discovery Museums in Acton
- Boston’s Old City Hall
- Freedom Trail
- Old State House Museum
- Ye Olde Union Oyster House
- Boston Massacre Site
- Haymarket – Continuing My Quest
- Faneuil Hall
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
- Battleship Cove
- More on the Son’s First Visit to the Red Sox
- The Amazing Nano Brothers Juggling Show at the Museum of Science
- A Visit to the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
- Paddling in Hemlock Gorge
- Thomas the Tank Engine at Edaville Railroad
- Apple Picking at Honey Pot Hill
- Muddy Buddy Boston in Myles Standish Park
