Other nearby outdoor destinations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSpectacle Island also isn\u2019t the only place you can go to get a similar outdoor experience with hiking and tours. Mount Auburn Cemetery is just up in Cambridge, accessible from downtown Boston through the Red Line, and it has plenty of walking paths. ![\"A](\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe7SNziGcGSYeNeqL2n1d5XsrIn_hBYPliJxdZ6KJ1xHlF0j4ZixJ7VvFSyiJpdbpkY7lXIJ0T3Oz7WOagHUQ6sgNz1sT8QZiIaNqRMusjyzwiDc9W91ItD64HIirydKIdXXaQcVeMy2ItyExHPcPvFRlM?key=cJfR5f2wJaei9rTxt1vqlw\")
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If you want to go further, one park you can get to on public transit is Allandale Woods just west of Franklin Park. It has plenty of trails for hiking, and even though it\u2019ll start looking bare as winter comes and all the leaves fall, it\u2019s still a nice place to go on a day hike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In downtown Boston, there are also plenty of walking tours, no ferry necessary. The Freedom Trail is the most obvious one, and provides a nice route through the city if you don\u2019t have a specific destination or route already made up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personally, one of my favorite things to do is looking for cool shells, and there are plenty of beaches to walk along, and some do have shells to look at. Although it\u2019s best to leave shells and debris on the beach for others to explore after you, it\u2019s still rewarding to find an intact crab shell on the sand. You can get to Revere Beach on the Blue Line, for one, and Magazine Beach up by Harvard has small trails and grassy areas to sit down on when the weather is nice, although it\u2019s too far inland to really have shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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