Action Alert for Trailside, Observatory and all State Parks
Please take a moment TODAY to make a big difference to the Blue Hills. This week a legislative committee is creating the state budget by comparing the two budgets created by the House and Senate. Significant funding for the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, the Blue Hill...
Action Alert: Call Your Legislator to Support Our Parks
You can help make sure that our parks – including the Blue Hills – receive the funding that they need. Take Action Please call your legislators and urge them to include the Department of Conservation and Recreation as one of their top budget priorities. To...
Creating a Coalition for a Better Blue Hills
Historic buildings crumbling, no lease security and inadequate funding… these are the issues that we will work to address with other Blue Hills organizations as part of the new Coalition for a Better Blue Hills. The Friends of the Blue Hills has brought together Blue...
Protecting Conservation Land from a Hotel
You probably don’t think of a hotel when you think of parkland, but that didn’t stop an individual from proposing to build a hotel on DCR conservation land near Little Blue Hill. Luckily, Friends of the Blue Hills worked with local and state officials to oppose the...
Hotel on Park Land? Not Happening!
Proposal to build a hotel on Little Blue Hill conservation land: thwarted! You probably don’t think of a hotel when you think of parkland, but that didn’t stop an individual from proposing to build a hotel on DCR conservation land near Little Blue Hill. Luckily,...Upcoming Events
Sep
25
Sat
2021
9:00 am
Neponset River Watershed Associa...
Neponset River Watershed Associa...
Sep 25 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Neponset River Fall Cleanup Saturday, September 25 from 9 am-noon Join with hundreds of volunteers as we spread out across the Neponset River Watershed to clean up our River, streams, ponds, parks, and trails.[...]
Oct
7
Thu
2021
7:00 pm
Annual Celebration
@ Canton Town Club and on Zoom
Annual Celebration
@ Canton Town Club and on Zoom
Oct 7 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us on October 7 as we celebrate the past year of protecting and preserving the Blue Hills… and raise funds to continue caring for the park! This year we will be able to both[...]
Oct
10
Sun
2021
1:00 pm
DCR Southeastern MA Adult Walkin...
DCR Southeastern MA Adult Walkin...
Oct 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Join a DCR ranger for a moderate walk, some hilly terrain, 3+ miles. Walk from St. Moritz Pond to Sawcut Notch, return on Crags Foot Path. Meet at the Shea Rink parking lot at 651[...]
Oct
17
Sun
2021
4:30 pm
Fall Foliage and Sunset Hike
@ Blue Hill Ski Area
Fall Foliage and Sunset Hike
@ Blue Hill Ski Area
Oct 17 @ 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
What could be more spectacular than fall foliage? Viewing this foliage from the top of Great Blue as the sun sets! Enjoy the season’s finest colors from the summit of the region’s highest hill. On[...]