Blue Heron Trail: Current and Future Links

The DCR Blue Heron Trail will someday extend from the Charles River Reservation at Watertown Square to Millennium Park in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood. Large portions of the trail are

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Hemlock Gorge Dam Reconstruction

The circular dam from under the Route 9 bridgeThe dam from abovePhoto by Kenneth MalloryPhoto by Kenneth MalloryWalk past the circular dam.Temporary fencing installed in 2006DCR replaced a spillway dam

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Echo Bridge: A Poem

Go if you will, in your season’s choice Seek out this old bridge of the past Stand in its beauty, lend it your voice Forever, its echo will last. Go

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Preserving Echo Bridge

As part of our planning for the aqueducts in Newton, we cannot omit Echo Bridge. This distinctive viaduct carried water for decades across the Charles River in Newton Upper Falls

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