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Best Things to Do in Acton

By travelguylife.com

Discovery Museum

A multimillion dollar expansion, finished in 2018, transformed this award-winning children's museum, which combines science, nature, and play, into a popular destination for families.

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Patriots’ Day March

At the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, Isaac Davis led the Acton Minutemen from Acton Center to the Old North Bridge in Concord.

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Hosmer House

The Hosmer House, built in 1760 and unique for being a "double house," is one of the many well-preserved Colonial-era buildings in Acton.

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Acton Centre Historic District

You will be in the historic district of Acton, which dates back nearly 300 years, at this understated group of structures centred around a town green.

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Great Hill Conservation and Recreation Land

The Discovery Museum is surrounded by Acton's largest single parcel of town-owned conservation land, which is dominated by the 358-foot Great Hill.

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Bruce Freeman Rail Trail

Since the 2010s, a rail trail that will be 25 miles long when finished in the middle of the 2020s has connected a number of communities between Lowell and Framingham.

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NARA Park

This North Acton park, which is a shortened version of Nathan Allen Recreation Area, was created in the late 1990s.

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Faulkner House

The Faulkner House (1707), which housed the Faulker family for slightly over 200 years and six generations, is the oldest surviving colonial house in Acton.

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Acton Arboretum

You can reach this 65-acre stretch of conservation area from Acton Centre by walking along Main Street.

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Nashoba Brook

This section of town-owned conservation land is a part of a collection of four adjoining parcels that totals more than 500 acres and includes a section of the Bay Circuit Trail.

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