Routes USA MassachusettsBoston
Charles River

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Charles River

Length13.4 mi
Elev. Gain180.4 ft
Est. Steps31000
Created by Pedro 🇵🇷
Charles River Introduction
Charles River is a 13.4 mile (31,000-step) route located near Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This route has an elevation gain of about 180.4 ft and is rated as hard. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Attractions Near Charles River
© Wikipedia © OpenStreetMap

Eliot House (Harvard College)

Place
Eliot House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University. It is one of the seven original houses at the College. Opened in 1931, the house was named after Charles William Eliot, who served as president of the university for forty years (1869–1909).

BU Castle

Place
The Boston University Castle (or BU Castle or simply "The Castle") is a Tudor Revival-style mansion owned by Boston University on Bay State Road. The school typically uses it for receptions or concerts, but also rents out The Castle to cater events and special occasions.

Boston University Bridge

Place
The Boston University Bridge, originally the Cottage Farm Bridge and commonly referred to as the BU Bridge, is a steel truss through arch bridge with a suspended deck carrying Route 2 over the Charles River, connecting Boston to Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials route log, the bridge also carries U.

Anderson Memorial Bridge

Place
Anderson Memorial Bridge (commonly but incorrectly called Larz Anderson Bridge) connects Allston, a neighborhood of Boston, and Cambridge. The bridge stands on the site of the Great Bridge built in 1662, the first structure to span the Charles River. It brings Boston traffic (from North Harvard Street) into Harvard Square (via JFK Street) and was finished in 1915.

Eliot Bridge

Place
The Eliot Bridge is a bridge over the Charles River between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. It connects Soldiers Field Road in Allston with Gerry's Landing Road, Memorial Drive, Greenough Boulevard, and the Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge.The bridge was built in 1950 as a memorial to Charles W.

B and B Chemical Company

Place
The B and B Chemical Company is an historic office and industrial building at 784 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1937 for an adhesive manufacturer to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, it is a prominent local example of Streamline Moderne architecture. It served for many years as the headquarters of the Polaroid Corporation.

Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John

Place
The Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John is an historic Episcopal church at 980 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Romanesque Revival church was built in 1936 to a design by architect Ralph Adams Cram. Cram sought to reproduce 12th century ecclesiastical forms found in the Burgundy region of France.

Storrow Drive

Place
Storrow Drive, officially James Jackson Storrow Memorial Drive, is a major crosstown parkway in Boston, Massachusetts, running east–west along the southern bank of the Charles River. It is restricted to cars; trucks and buses are not permitted on it. Boston drivers use the route for quick access to downtown locations.

Memorial Drive (Cambridge)

Place
Memorial Drive (colloquially referred to as Mem Drive) is a 3.9-mile (6.3 km) parkway along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It runs parallel to two major Boston parkways - Soldiers Field Road and Storrow Drive - which lie on the south bank of the river. The western terminus is in West Cambridge at Greenough Boulevard and Fresh Pond Parkway.

Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District

Place
The Memorial Drive Apartments Historic District is a historic district encompassing four apartment houses on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are located between the Anderson Memorial Bridge and the Eliot Bridge with street numbers ranging from 983 to 993 Memorial Drive. All four buildings were built between 1916 and 1924, not long after Memorial Drive had been laid out, and were, despite significant similarities of style, designed by three different architects.
Route Details

Length

13.4 mi

Elev. Gain

180.4 ft

Est. Steps

31000
Created by
Pedro 🇵🇷
Open in AppOpen