Event – WalkBoston Walk: Franklin Park (August 24, 2022)
This event was originally scheduled on July 20th, but was rescheduled due to a heat emergency declared by the City of Boston. We hope you’ll be able to join us for our new date: August 24th!
Join us on the new date of August 24th 2022 at 5:30PM for our next walk which will focus on Franklin Park, and is part of Olmsted Now: Greater Boston’s Olmsted Bicentennial taking place in 2022 (this was originally scheduled for July, but it was rescheduled due to the heat emergency). It is also our second group walk of the year, following the Bob Sloane / Muddy River Walk in June. Updates will be available on this page & sent to all registered attendees before the event.
WalkBoston walks typically last 90 minutes, covering 1-1.5 miles and include stops along the way to hear from 3-4 people/organizations who are working on walking-related efforts in the community.
HOW TO GET TO THE START
We’ll start and end at near the Zoo at the William J. Devine Golf Course Clubhouse (1 Circuit Dr, Dorchester, MA 02121), where food and drink is available for purchase. If you’re coming from downtown, consider taking the Orange Line to Jackson Square and riding the 22 Bus via the new Columbus Avenue Bus Lane! Prefer to walk a little more through Franklin Park? You can also get off the Orange Line at Green Street and walk through the park via the Glen Road entrance. Parking is also available nearby.
ROUTE
The walk will focus on Franklin Park, and is part of Olmsted Now. The walk will start and end at the Franklin Park Clubhouse (1 Circuit Dr, Dorchester, MA 02121), which will be open for food/drink at the end.
Transportation close to the clubhouse:
- 14, 16, 22, 28, 29, 45 buses all are a short walk from the Franklin Park Clubhouse, and can connect you to the Orange and Red lines
- BlueBikes – Franklin Park Zoo / Franklin Park Rd at Blue Hill Ave
- Parking is available in a lot by the Clubhouse as well as along Circuit Drive
SPEAKERS
- The Franklin Park Coalition will share about their work and current initiatives for the park,
- Brandi Cruthird of Just Walk Boston, who will share about their group which was founded as a way of fighting pandemic-induced loneliness and segregated public space through the simple act of walking. Read about the group in the Boston Globe. (Brandi & Just Walk Boston received a Golden Shoe at our annual meeting this past March.) Brandi also leads a free walking group on Saturdays at 8AM as part of the Boston Public Health Commission / Boston Parks Department’s Summer Fitness Series.
- …and others to be announced soon! (Know someone who would share an important perspective? Let Brendan know.)
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
This walk is the second in a series of walks that WalkBoston is organizing for Olmsted Now:
Parks and public places are for everyone. Frederick Law Olmsted — reformer, writer, Boston transplant and America’s first landscape architect — is about to turn 200. Olmsted Now, Greater Boston’s Olmsted Bicentennial, is an invitation to actively shape a more equitable, verdant and vibrant city. Show up. Be seen. Share your story.