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
Jan
26
Sun
2020
1:00 pm
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
Jan 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Moderate[...]
Feb
23
Sun
2020
1:00 pm
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
DCR Adult Walking Club
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
Feb 23 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Moderate[...]
Feb
25
Tue
2020
5:00 pm
Blue Hills Winter Fest
@ Blue Hills Ski Area
Blue Hills Winter Fest
@ Blue Hills Ski Area
Feb 25 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the Friends of the Blue Hills and the Blue Hills Ski Area for an evening of winter fun at Winter Fest! Come for a night hike or get your exercise on the slopes downhill[...]