Mattapan

Worth seeing in and around Mattapan

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.

1. 01
   Death and the Sculptor

   Death and the Sculptor, also known as the Milmore Monument and The Angel of Death and the Young Sculptor is a sculpture in bronze, and one of the most important and influential works of art created by sculptor Daniel Chester French. The work was commissioned to mark the grave in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, of the brothers Joseph, James and Martin Milmore.

   3.3 km · sculpture by Daniel Chester French · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Franklin Park Zoo

   The Franklin Park Zoo is a 72-acre zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is currently operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

   3.7 km · zoo in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Forest Hills Cemetery

   Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.

   2.9 km · cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Central Avenue station

   Central Avenue station is a light rail station located off Central Avenue near Eliot Street in Milton, Massachusetts. It serves the Mattapan Line, a branch of the MBTA Red Line.

   1.1 km · Light rail stop in Milton, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Franklin Park

   Franklin Park, a partially wooded 527-acre parkland bordered by the Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts, is maintained by the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department. It is Boston's biggest park and the site of the Franklin Park Zoo.

   3.3 km · park in Boston, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Cedar Grove station

   Cedar Grove station is a light rail station on the Mattapan Line located in the southern part of the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The station, named for the adjacent Cedar Grove Cemetery, has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks.

   2.3 km · Light rail stop in Boston · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Pope John Paul II Park Reservation

   Pope John Paul II Park Reservation, officially the Saint Pope John Paul II Park, and also known as Pope Park, is a 66-acre Massachusetts state park bordering the Neponset River in the Dorchester section of Boston. The park was reclaimed from the former site of a landfill and the Neponset Drive-In as part of the Lower Neponset River Master Plan and the development of the Neponset River Reservation.

   3.5 km · State park of Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Mother Brook

   Mother Brook is an artificial waterway in Dedham, and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and the first man-made canal in the present-day United States. Constructed in 1639 by settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it diverts water from the Charles River to the Neponset River and was originally designed to power water mills.

   3.7 km · canal in Norfolk and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House

   The Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House, also known as the R. B. Forbes House and Forbes House Museum, is a house museum located at 215 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and is open to the public.

   2.2 km · historic house in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St. Mark's Episcopal Church

    St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a historic church complex at 73 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

    3.6 km · historic church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mattapan

Airports

Boston Logan (BOS), 12 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 67 km · Bradley (BDL), 137 km

Stations

Forest Hills station, 3.9 km · Shawmut station, 2.9 km · Mattapan station, 700 m · Milton station, 1.6 km · Butler station, 2 km

• Providence/Warwick → Mattapan

  71 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · $6–9
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  4078 km · quickest by air, 9h 6m · $450–690
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• Hartford → Mattapan

  144 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · $13–18
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