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
Jun
1
Sat
2019
all-day
Fun Family Storywalk
@ Houghton's Pond Playground
Fun Family Storywalk
@ Houghton's Pond Playground
Jun 1 – Nov 30 all-day
Enjoy Gill Davies’ collection of 26 witty, kid-oriented animal poems ranging from Ants to Zebras. Read along as you stroll through the pages of the book posted on the wooden fence at the playground. Add a unique[...]
Oct
26
Sat
2019
10:00 am
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Ponkapoag Golf Course parking lot
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Ponkapoag Golf Course parking lot
Oct 26 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Walks will be led by DCR park staff or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Moderate walk, some hills. Walk a 4 mile loop around Ponkapoag Pond on the green dot trail. Meet at the Ponkapoag[...]
4:30 pm
Blue Hills Fall Foliage Sunset Hike
@ Blue Hills Ski Area
Blue Hills Fall Foliage Sunset Hike
@ Blue Hills Ski Area
Oct 26 @ 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[...]