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
Jul
14
Tue
2020
4:30 pm
Virtual Book Club: Sudden Sea: T...
Virtual Book Club: Sudden Sea: T...
Jul 14 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Blue Hills Book Club Next virtual discussion: Tuesday, July 14, 4:30 pm (Note new time!) Sign-up to get the Zoom link below. You are invited to a virtual book club! We are reading, Sudden Sea:[...]
Aug
13
Thu
2020
12:00 pm
Introducing… Meditation in Motion
Introducing… Meditation in Motion
Aug 13 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Tired of being cooped up? Want to learn something new? Then join us to experience Qigong (Qi pronounced ‘chee’ – like ‘Chee-tos’), a part of the traditional Chinese medicine that dates back over 3,000 years,[...]
Aug
15
Sat
2020
9:00 am
Trail Maintenance – Sign up for ...
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
Trail Maintenance – Sign up for ...
@ Houghton's Pond main parking lot
Aug 15 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and to comply with state and federal advisories, we are waiting for the state to develop protocols for volunteers in the park before we confirm any of our[...]