Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill is a village located six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Chestnut Hill is a village located six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is best known for being home to Boston College and a section of the Boston Marathon route. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity. It is located partially in Brookline in Norfolk County, partially in the city of Boston in Suffolk County, and partially in the city of Newton in Middlesex County. Chestnut Hill's borders are defined by the 02467 ZIP Code. The name refers to several small hills that overlook the 135-acre Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than one particular hill.
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Worth seeing in and around Chestnut Hill
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Boston College
Boston College is a private Catholic Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order, the university has more than 15,000 total students, making it the seventh largest Catholic university in the U.S. by enrollment.
600 m · private research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 02Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
900 m · museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 03Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is a private Eastern Orthodox liberal arts college and seminary in Brookline and Boston in Massachusetts. The institution is composed of two schools.
3.4 km · college and seminary in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Alumni Stadium
Alumni Stadium is a college football stadium on the lower campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It is about 6 miles west of downtown Boston, just inside the Boston city limits near the border with Newton.
500 m · stadium in Boston, MA · Wikipedia - 05Hammond Pond Reservation
Hammond Pond Reservation is a protected woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. It features Hammond Pond, fishing and hiking trails as well as formations of sandstone conglomerate and Roxbury puddingstone which are popular for rock climbing.
1.1 km · state park · Wikipedia - 06Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School is the law school of Boston College, a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It is situated on a 40-acre campus in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles from the university's main campus in Chestnut Hill.
2.6 km · law school of Boston College · Wikipedia - 07Brandon Hall station
Brandon Hall station is a temporarily closed light rail stop on the Green Line C branch of the MBTA subway system, located in the median of Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. Brandon Hall station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks.
3.3 km · Light rail stop in Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 08Coolidge Corner station
Coolidge Corner station is a light rail stop on the Green Line C branch of the MBTA subway system, located at the intersection of Beacon Street and Harvard Street in the Coolidge Corner neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts. With 3,440 daily boardings by a 2011 count, it had more than twice the ridership of any other surface station on the branch.
3.9 km · Light rail stop in Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 09South Street station
South Street station is a light rail surface stop on the MBTA Green Line B branch, located in the median of Commonwealth Avenue east of South Street in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. South Street is the lowest-ridership stop on the B branch, with just 214 daily boardings by a 2011 survey.
1.2 km · Light rail stop in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 10Tappan Street station
Tappan Street station is a light rail stop on the Green Line C branch of the MBTA subway system, located in the median of Beacon Street east of Tappan Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The station consists of two side platforms which serve the C branch's two tracks.
2.4 km · Light rail stop in Brookline, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chestnut Hill
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 13 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 71 km · Bradley (BDL), 133 km
- Stations
- Boston College station, 1.1 km · Newton Highlands station, 3.4 km · Chestnut Hill station, 400 m · Brookline Hills station, 3.2 km · Newton Centre station, 2.3 km
- Providence/Warwick → Chestnut Hill71 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · $6–9
- Portland → Chestnut Hill4070 km · quickest by air, 9h 11m · $460–700
- Hartford → Chestnut Hill140 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chestnut Hill
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chestnut Hill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Charles River Bike Path is a mostly off-road path that runs from Newton and Waltham east through Watertown, Boston, and Cambridge along both banks of the Charles River.
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Next door to Chestnut Hill
Chestnut Hill is 9 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newtoncity in Massachusetts, United States3.7 km
- Allstonneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States3.7 km
- Newton Centrevillage of Newton, Massachusetts, USA2.3 km
- Brightonneighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States2.2 km
- Newtonvillevillage in Massachusetts3.8 km
- Newton Highlandsvillage of Newton, Massachusetts, United States2.9 km