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Top Parks in Watertown, United States
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Watertown Recreation Department
Watertown Greenway Connector
Historic Thompson Park
Watertown Square
Watertown Linear Park
Bemis Park
Watertown Cambridge Greenway Access
Stairway access to Charles River Greenway
Reviews
This park is historic, it has a zoo too. This park has a bunch of historic steps. There is also historic pavilions with some historic grills. This historic park also includes a pretty new historic playground. Want to walk your dog like our forefathers did? No problem historic dog park too. Historic swimming pool with tons of historic pee in it, ✔️. Historic portal, You ask? maybe. Historic meeting area for certain groups? Probably there too. Historic exercise trail yup. Historic Pokemon gyms are abundant. Fly a historic kite, play historic basketball, historic tennis, historic hacky sack, historic Frisbee,I'm pretty sure you can get historic drunk if you want, have historic picnics it'll be fun.
I went to the zoo and playground with my 2 and a half year old neice. We had a great time. We saw a variety of animals- her favorite was the snowy owl. Then we went over to the playground. She had a good time playing on the different equipment.
Beautiful park that overlooks Watertown. The held a Total Eclipse event here, and the town did a great job.
I went here to see the total solar eclipse, and it was amazing! I came early and walked around the park for a couple of hours. Great park, great people, great event! ✨️
Thompson Park hosted an eclipse event, "Total Eclipse of the Park", that was an epic experience! This event made seeing the eclipse on a cloudy day something even more spectacular than just witnessing the eclipse! Thank you for turning this into a special day 💖
Had a wonderful day for the eclipse. Wonderful park with lots to do for kids and family
Love taking my kids here to play. The view is great also during the fall.
My family was given permission to put up a little library in honor of my infant granddaughter that passed, two years ago.
Communication was unbearable while grieving. Then we were ignored and told it couldn’t happen at the park promised to us. Recently a larger beautiful memorial was just put up for another much loved town member at the same park.
We just needed room for one post. Our family is absolutely heartbroken to learn how cold those in charge can be.
Communication was unbearable while grieving. Then we were ignored and told it couldn’t happen at the park promised to us. Recently a larger beautiful memorial was just put up for another much loved town member at the same park.
We just needed room for one post. Our family is absolutely heartbroken to learn how cold those in charge can be.
Thompson Park is where I spent almost every night as a teenager and young adult. What a great place. You can see for miles and the view is fantastic. And a great place to fly your kites.
The trails are beautiful this time of year!
Clean community space
My kids loved this playground and asked to go often. Yet it was rusting and not that great. I did like how they had basketball courts the kids could practice bike riding on.
Fun place to shoot a few hoops
Great neighborhood park with a nice baseball field!
Great selection of small wildflowers scattered across the grass.....
Very clearly cut grass & well kept up with in general.
Mp
Very clearly cut grass & well kept up with in general.
Mp
Beautiful park great for family time and playing basketball please respect each other God bless everyone
Nice place for kids palying and player of tenis, basketball, and socer ...
Great place for kids to play baseball or us the other facilities it offers.
Grew up here.Many great memories.
A strange sort of turn into a little piece of nature that is easily missed with the harrowing watertown sq merger and the Galen St bridge.
It is a good park 😁👍
Congratulations to Watertown for putting on such a beautiful display of lights serving to bring a feeling of warmth amidst the winter chill.
I ride bikes here along the river all the time! It is a pretty quiet spot usually with a couple kids or people fishing. It’s a good spot to take a break when biking along the Charles river path, which can go all the way to Waltham
Nice park. Full size baseball diamond.
Very scenic buses going everywhere hiking trails shops restaurants I liked it
Nice place to hang out while waiting for the bus. They light the big tree in the winter.
Nice park! Has playground, basketball court, foursquare court, and baseball diamond.
Nice place to take a walk. Check out the mural.
Be sure to park your car and walk to two places:
The little park just south of the Square intersections overlooking a huge natural pool of the Charles Square. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of birds,and fish. Too-few folks visit this urban natural gem, hiding just out of sight from the busy roadways.
Then walk a few block north to their very fine Armenian Museum. Good historical exhibits and rotating art shows...and a large display of original big Karsh photo-portraits of famous Americans (most of which you'll recognize from magazines).
If you have time, then drive a mile east to the small cemetery at the corner of Common Street. This was originally the town common, where (after the battles of Lexington and Concord) Washington began his long political campaign to become Commander-in-Chief of upcoming Revolutionary forces...and John Adams first proposed a new three-part Amerucan government. The four-corner boundaries of its no-longer-extant meetinghouse are well marked by four pillars...so *you* can stand where your country's founders stood.
Watertown is one of the oldest towns in the Country (c. 20th oldest), founded by Puritans in 1630...11 months before Newtown/Cambridge was. Originally, Watertown extended all the way to Sparks St. (now in Cambridge. All of its vast area west of Sparks was not annexed by Cambridge until the 1850). The many Watertown across the nation were all founded by families from here!
Almost all of beautiful Mt.Auburn Cemetery (1831, America's very first parklike landscape!) is in Watertown. (Only a tiny section of land by its front entrancr is in Cambridge.) Almost all of its huge number of beautiful mature trees are named and labeled: Consider it an accessible teaching-arboretum and vast garden... with a bonus of interesting restful marble statues.
Enjoy
Watertown
(1630) :
Greater Boston's
forgotten
quiet
little
gem!
The little park just south of the Square intersections overlooking a huge natural pool of the Charles Square. Very quiet and peaceful. Lots of birds,and fish. Too-few folks visit this urban natural gem, hiding just out of sight from the busy roadways.
Then walk a few block north to their very fine Armenian Museum. Good historical exhibits and rotating art shows...and a large display of original big Karsh photo-portraits of famous Americans (most of which you'll recognize from magazines).
If you have time, then drive a mile east to the small cemetery at the corner of Common Street. This was originally the town common, where (after the battles of Lexington and Concord) Washington began his long political campaign to become Commander-in-Chief of upcoming Revolutionary forces...and John Adams first proposed a new three-part Amerucan government. The four-corner boundaries of its no-longer-extant meetinghouse are well marked by four pillars...so *you* can stand where your country's founders stood.
Watertown is one of the oldest towns in the Country (c. 20th oldest), founded by Puritans in 1630...11 months before Newtown/Cambridge was. Originally, Watertown extended all the way to Sparks St. (now in Cambridge. All of its vast area west of Sparks was not annexed by Cambridge until the 1850). The many Watertown across the nation were all founded by families from here!
Almost all of beautiful Mt.Auburn Cemetery (1831, America's very first parklike landscape!) is in Watertown. (Only a tiny section of land by its front entrancr is in Cambridge.) Almost all of its huge number of beautiful mature trees are named and labeled: Consider it an accessible teaching-arboretum and vast garden... with a bonus of interesting restful marble statues.
Enjoy
Watertown
(1630) :
Greater Boston's
forgotten
quiet
little
gem!
This intersection is terrible. Everyone runs red lights across an extra wide space which takes too long for them to get through. The left turn arrows aren't far enough from the front of the lane, so if you don't know the intersection already, you won't know you have to turn left. They need to hang lane indicator signs for clarification. On top of that, they need to reevaluate the light cycles and timing for it.