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
Apr
1
Mon
2019
all-day
DCR Spring Storywalk “A Salamand...
@ Blue Hills Reservation
DCR Spring Storywalk “A Salamand...
@ Blue Hills Reservation
Apr 1 – May 31 all-day
Enjoy a Family Spring Storywalk® at Houghton’s Pond Playground. Visit A Salamander Room. Vernal pools and wetlands come alive in spring! Many salamanders and frogs are most active this time of year. Be on the[...]
Apr
24
Wed
2019
6:30 pm
Brookwood Community Farm Cook Cl...
@ East Milton Congregational Church
Brookwood Community Farm Cook Cl...
@ East Milton Congregational Church
Apr 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Cooking Class for Knife Skills for ages 13 and up, 4/24 6:30 – 8:30 pm at E. Milton Congregational Church. Register at the website soon!
Apr
27
Sat
2019
9:00 am
DCR Park Serve Day
@ Houghton's Pond parking lot
DCR Park Serve Day
@ Houghton's Pond parking lot
Apr 27 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Lend a hand for DCR Park Serve Day with Blue Hills trailwork. Join the Friends of Blue Hills to help clear the trails. Activities may involve raking, digging out water bars and culverts, cutting branches or[...]