New England - Massachusetts

Back Bay

A Karen Brown Recommendation

 Back Bay, with its commercial and shopping areas, begins at the Boston Common, a 50-acre park in the center of the city. The adjacent Public Garden (the first public botanical garden in the country), with its guide-pedaled swan boats and wonderful duck statues found along its network of paths, is a treat for children who have read and loved Make Way for Ducklings. Not to be missed in Back Bay are Copley Square, Trinity Church, and the John Hancock Tower, from whose 60^th-floor observatory you get splendid views in all directions. Commonwealth Avenue retains much of the grandeur of a residential street with its center mall lined with elm trees.

Located along this Karen Brown Itinerary:

Boston: A Grand Beginning

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Nearby Hotels and Bed & Breakfasts:
Listed Alphabetically, Not By Distance.

• A Cambridge House Inn
• Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro
• By the Sea B & B
• Charles Street Inn
• Clarendon Square Inn
• Concord’s Colonial Inn
• Emerson Inn By The Sea
• Harbor Light Inn
• Hawthorne Hotel
• Hawthorne Inn
• Inn at Castle Hill
• Powder Point Bed & Breakfast
• Yankee Clipper Inn