DCR Summer Season Gets Underway

Waterfronts Welcome Swimmers

DCR officially kicks off the summer recreational season this Saturday with the opening of waterfronts across the Commonwealth. Lifeguards begin staffing inland and ocean beaches on weekends, while parks and campgrounds staff up for camping, interpretive and educational programming, boating, OHV and ATV use, sailing, golfing—and, of course, summer concerts and movies at the Hatch Shell and beyond. - more-

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No swimming at Pecham Pond (Breakheart) and Milton and Channing Streets (Wollaston) due to water quality.

Stories in Stone - Preservation Month 2013

DCR is known for its terrific parks, but did you know that DCR is also a leader in historic preservation?

This May during Preservation Month experience Massachusetts history through the historic sites, monuments, buildings and landscapes at DCR parks, like the story of Plymouth Rock, shown here being moved in 1920. - more information-

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