Massachusetts Parks and Recreation Areas with National Historic Site

This is the site of the first integrated ironworks in North America, 1646-1668. It includes the reconstructed blast furnace, forge, rolling mill, and a restored seventeenth century house.

Phone: 781-233-0050   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Saugus   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site preserves the birthplace in 1917 and boyhood home of the 35th President of the United States. The modest frame house at 83 Beals Street in Brookline was the first home shared by the president's father and mother, Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and represents the social and political beginnings of one of Americas most prominent families.

Phone: (617)566-7937   Price Range: $0 - $7   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Brookline   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: John F Kennedy National Historic Site

Located in the heart of Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the site includes 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th century African-American community, including: the African Meeting House, the oldest standing African-American church in the United States. The sites are linked by the 1.6 mile Black Heritage Trail.

Phone: (617) 742-5415   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Boston   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Hiking, Nature Walks   Details Provided By: Boston African-American

Discover the revolutionary generation of Bostonians who blazed a trail from colonialism to independence. Boston National Historical Park is an association of sites that together give the visitor a coherent view of the city's role in the nation's history.

Phone: 617-242-5642   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Boston   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Boston

The history of America's Industrial Revolution is commemorated in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Boott Cotton Mills Museum with its operating weave room of 88 power looms, boardinghouses, the Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit and guided tours tell the story of the transition from farm to factory, chronicle immigrant and labor history and trace industrial technology.

Phone: 978-970-5000   Price Range: $2 - $8   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Lowell   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Lowell National Historical Park

Adams National Historical Park is located in the City of Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, approximately ten miles south of Boston. The Park comprises 11 historic structures and a cultural landscape totaling almost 14 acres.

Phone: (617) 770-1175   Price Range: $5 - $10   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Quincy   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Adams National Historical Park

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park commemorates the heritage of the world's preeminent whaling port during the 19th century. A variety of cultural landscapes, historic buildings, museum collections, and archives preserve this history and collectively recount the stories of a remarkable era. Whaling, a leading 19th century enterprise, contributed to America's economic and political vitality.

Phone: 508-996-4095   Price Range: $2 - $10   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New Bedford   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Nature Walks   Details Provided By: New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

Longfellow National Historic Site is an outstanding example of a historic site representing the themes of arts and literature. For almost half a century, this was the home of one of the world's foremost poets, scholars and educators, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow House is also significant in America's colonial history. General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed Continental Army, headquartered and planned the Siege of Boston here between July, 1775 and April, 1776.

Phone: (617)876-4491   Price Range: $0 - $3   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Cambridge   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Longfellow National Historic Site

Salem Maritime, the first National Historic Site in the National Park System, was established to preserve and interpret the maritime history of New England and the United States. The Site consists of about nine acres of land and twelve historic structures along the waterfront in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as a Visitor Center in downtown Salem.

Phone: (978)740-1650   Price Range: $3 - $5   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Salem   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Fishing, Interpretive Programs, Star Gazing   Details Provided By: Salem Maritime National Historic Site

At Minute Man National Historical Park, the Battles of Lexington and Concord are brought to life through the preservation, restoration and interpretation of significant sites from when Colonists took up arms in defense of liberty and touched off the American Revolution.

Phone: (978) 369-6993   Price Range: $0 - $4   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Concord   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities: Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Cross Country Skiing, Hiking, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Minute Man National Historical Park