Travel

Best Things to Do in Milton

By travelguylife.com

Blue Hills Reservation

The Blue Hills Reservation, which includes the same-named range, encloses a sizable portion of southern Milton.

Google images

Eustis Estate Museum

Visit this opulent late 19th-century home amid a stunning 80-acre environment on the edge of the Blue Hills.

Google images

Blue Hills Trailside Museum

The public has access to this museum since 1959 thanks to the management of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Google images

Blue Hill Observatory Science Center

This observatory, built atop Great Blue Hill in 1885, served as the site of many of the earliest measurements of weather conditions in the upper atmosphere.

Google images

Forbes House Museum

This elegant Greek Revival home, which dates to 1833, was constructed atop Milton Hill for Mrs. Margaret Perkins Forbes, a widow, and her four daughters.

Google images

Houghton’s Pond

This lovely spring-fed kettle hole pond, created by retreating glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age, is a popular summer destination in the Blue Hills Reservation.

Google images

Turner’s Pond

Turner's Pond, a beloved natural area in the centre of Milton, is located in a 26-acre park directly behind Glover Elementary School.

Google images

Milton Centre Historic District

The historic centre of Milton can be found on a little section of Canton Ave, just west of Reedsdale Rd.

Google images

Governor Hutchinson’s Field

The Trustees of Reservations manage a ten-acre field that pitches down to the Neponset River from Milton Hill.

Google images

Mary M.B. Wakefield Estate & Arboretum

In Milton, there is a historic estate that belonged to the Davenport family for more than 300 years before a charitable trust acquired it in 2004. 

Google images