Destinations · Massachusetts

Charlestown, Boston

MA · 42.3753, -71.0644

Revolutionary Heritage Byway, Battle Road Scenic Byway and Essex Coastal Scenic Byway are signed byways within 30 miles of Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts.

Understand

Charlestown was first settled and laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, making it Boston's oldest neighborhood. Initially quite large, at least 10 towns have peeled away from the King's original land grant over the last 400 years. Becoming a city in 1848, Charlestown was annexed by Boston in 1874. Located on a peninsula between Boston Harbor and the Charles and Mystic Rivers, Charlestown can sometimes feel cutoff from the rest of the city.

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The same roads run past Boston, where they are ranked and described in full.

Day-trip loops

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Within reach

Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.

Scenic byways

Revolutionary Heritage Byway · 3 mi · national
Battle Road Scenic Byway · 5 mi · national
Essex Coastal Scenic Byway · 23 mi

Lookouts

Skywalk Observatory · 2 mi
Sunset Ledge · 25 mi
Eagle Rock · 25 mi
Lookout Point · 29 mi

Named places

Thompson Square · 0 mi
Thompson Square · 0 mi
Peter Looney Park · 0 mi
The Battle of Bunker Hill Museum · 0 mi
Monument Square · 0 mi
Colonel William Prescott · 0 mi
John Harvard Mall · 0 mi
Bunker Hill Monument · 0 mi

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