Back Bay & Beacon Hill

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Back Bay & Beacon Hill and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• The Freedom Trail15 min walk1.2 km
• Fenway Park22 min walk1.8 km
• Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market22 min walk1.8 km
• Museum of Fine Arts24 min walk2.0 km
• Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum24 min walk2.0 km
• The North End & Paul Revere House28 min walk2.3 km
• USS Constitution8 min taxi2.8 km
• Harvard & MIT (Cambridge)13 min taxi4.3 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 2.Public Garden & swan boats — America's first public botanical garden — willow-draped ponds, formal flowerbeds and the beloved pedal-powered swan boats, beside Boston Common. A gentle, pretty green heart to the city; the 'Make Way for Ducklings' statues are here.
• 6.Beacon Hill & Acorn Street — The city's most beautiful quarter — gas lamps, brick sidewalks and Federal townhouses climbing to the State House's golden dome, with tiny cobbled Acorn Street the most photographed lane in America. A postcard at every turn.
• 10.Newbury Street & Back Bay — Eight blocks of brownstone boutiques, galleries and café terraces — Boston's smartest shopping street, threading the grand Victorian Back Bay. Lovely for an afternoon stroll and a coffee, leaves turning gold in fall.
• 11.Trinity Church & Copley Square — A masterpiece of American architecture reflected in the glass of the Hancock Tower behind it, on a handsome square with the grand Boston Public Library opposite. Step inside for the murals; a serene Back Bay highlight.