Franklin Park

Park · Gold Coast

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"This verdant green space in Roxbury is named after Benjamin Franklin, whose trust fund the city had hoped would finance the park; however, the city ended up paying for it. It’s most famous for being home to the Franklin Park Zoo, with hundreds of animals and birds from around the globe, ranging from a citron-crested cockatoo to a white-bearded wildebeest. The park has 65 acres of wilderness with footpaths that wind through clusters of oaks, pines, and hemlocks, and around hills and rocky outcroppings. Art programs are hosted all over the lawn during the summer months and there’s also an 18-hole public golf course — which is great for sledding and cross-country skiing during snowy winter months. The park also has playing fields, a 10,000-seat stadium, a pond with migrating birds, and School Master Hill, where transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson lived for two years in a small cabin before the park was built." - MATADOR_NETWORK

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