Boston Harborwalk is a public walkway that follows the edge of piers, wharves, beaches, and shoreline around

Boston Harbor Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. History ...

. When fully completed it will extend a distance of from

East Boston East Boston, nicknamed Eastie, is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts annexed by the city of Boston in 1637. Neighboring communities include Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea. It is separated from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown and d ...

to the

Neponset River The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its headwaters are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, near Gillette Stadium. From there, the Neponset meanders generally northeast for about to its mouth at ...

History

The Harborwalk is a cooperative project of the City of Boston, the

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, the

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, and private property developers. Since 1984, the project has established parks, walking paths, educational sites, transportation facilities, and other amenities along the harbor. Many developers of private land along the harbor have been required under the provisions of the Boston Zoning Code and of Chapter 91 of Massachusetts state law to set back new buildings from the water and to provide publicly accessible waterfront pathways. A map of the proposed route shows that the completed Harborwalk will consist of a continuous trail from Charlestown in the north to Dorchester in the south, plus many other discontinuous trail segments. A map and trail guide describe the current status of the route. An interactive map highlights sights along a portion of the walk in downtown Boston. As of 2016, 38 of the originally planned of trail have been completed. Following the

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, plans to extend the Harborwalk to the four miles of shoreline around

Logan Airport General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport , also known as Boston Logan International Airport and commonly as Boston Logan, Logan Airport or simply Logan, is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partial ...

were abandoned. As an alternative, planners are now considering an inland route connecting the Harborwalk through the

East Boston Greenway The Mary Ellen Welch Greenway (formerly the East Boston Greenway) is a rail trail and park in East Boston that is located along the path of a former Conrail line. The greenway connects several significant open space areas in East Boston, includi ...

Constitution Beach Constitution Beach is a man-made crescent-shaped, sandy beach located in the Orient Heights (now HarborView) neighborhood of East Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1952 and known to locals as "Shays Beach," its most distinctive feature is that l ...

Connections to other trails

The Harborwalk connects with many other trails. From north to south, these include the following: South Bay Harbor Trail, Boston, 2016

East Coast Greenway The East Coast Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle route between Maine and Florida along the East Coast of the United States. In 2020, the Greenway received over 50 million visits. The nonprofit East Coast Greenway Alliance was created in 1991. ...

* Freedom Trail *

Charles River Bike Path The Charles River Bike Path is a mixed-use path in the Boston, Massachusetts area. It is named after the cardiologist Paul Dudley White, a prominent advocate of preventive medicine. His research led him to proclaim frequently "''I'd like to put ...

s * Millers River Trail *Proposed extension of Somerville Community Path *

Rose Kennedy Greenway The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is a linear park located in several Downtown Boston neighborhoods. It consists of landscaped gardens, promenades, plazas, fountains, art, and specialty lighting systems that stretch over one mile through Chin ...

*Walk to the Sea *

South Bay Harbor Trail The South Bay Harbor Trail is a mixed-use path in Boston, Massachusetts opened in 2011 The rail trail extends from Ruggles Station along Melnea Cass Boulevard, across Massachusetts Avenue, along Biosquare Drive near the Massachusetts Avenue Con ...

Lower Neponset River Trail The Lower Neponset River Trail is a rail trail running along the Neponset River The Neponset River is a river in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its headwaters are at the Neponset Reservoir in Foxborough, near Gillette Stadium. ...

*Quincy RiverWalk to

Squantum Point Park Squantum Point Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The park was created on the site of the former Squantum Naval Air Station, which is preserved in a strip of r ...

Public art

Judy Kensley McKie bench at Eastport Park, Boston

Sculptures and memorials, including some by noted artists, have been placed at many locations along the Harborwalk. Playful fish sculpture benches by

Judy Kensley McKie Judy Kensley McKie (born 1944) is an American artist, furniture designer, and furniture maker. She has been making her signature style of furniture with carved and embellished animal and plant motifs since 1977. She is based in Boston, Massachus ...

and sculptures by Susumu Shingu and David Phillips have been created for Eastport Park, South Boston. Sculptures by Tony Smith,

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

, Luis Jimenez,

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim (September 6, 1938 – January 21, 2011) was an American conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. Dennis Oppenheim's early artistic practice is an epistemological questioning about the natu ...

William G. Tucker William G. Tucker (born 28 February 1935) is a modernist British sculptor and modern art scholar. Biography Tucker was born to English parents on 28 February 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1937, his family returned to England, where Tucker was rais ...

, and

Sol LeWitt Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he pref ...

are located on the

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massa ...

campus. Between the Institute of Contemporary Art and the

John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse is a federal courthouse for the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, located on Fan Pier on the Boston, Massa ...

, a series of artworks by

Ross Miller Ross James Miller (born March 26, 1976) is an American attorney and politician. He is a Democrat, currently the Clark County Commissioner for District C since 2021, the former Secretary of State of Nevada and 2012–2013 president of the Natio ...

evoke moments in the history of Fan Pier. "Untitled Landscape" by

David von Schlegell David Von Schlegell (May 25, 1920 – October 5, 1992) was an American abstract artist, sculptor and educator. Early life and education David von Schlegell was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1920, the son of American impressionist artist Wi ...

is located at

Harbor Towers The Harbor Towers are two 40-story residential towers located on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts, located between the New England Aquarium and the Rowes Wharf mixed-use development. Harbor Towers I, the taller of the two towers, stands ...

. The East Boston part of the walk travels through an outdoor sculpture park, HarborArts, situated in a working industrial shipyard, the East Boston Shipyard and Marina. An interactive musical sculpture, "Charlestown Bells," by

Paul Matisse Paul Matisse (born 1933) is an artist and inventor known for his public art installations, many of which are interactive and produce sound. Matisse also invented the Kalliroscope. Early life and education Paul Matisse is the son of New York g ...

(grandson of the painter

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prim ...

) is located along the walkway of the Charles River Dam. The bells were installed in 2000, but had fallen into disrepair before a 2013 restoration. Memorial sculptures found along the Harborwalk include a memorial to firefighter Robert M. Greene at Castle Island in South Boston; a Korean War Memorial at Shipyard Park in the

Boston Navy Yard The Boston Navy Yard, originally called the Charlestown Navy Yard and later Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities in the United States Navy. It was established in 1801 as part of the recent establishment of t ...

in Charlestown; and a

United States Maritime Service The United States Maritime Service (USMS) was established in 1938 under the provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 as voluntary training organization to train individuals to become officers and crewmembers on merchant ships that form the ...

memorial in the North End's Langone Park.

Historical exhibitions

Along the Harborwalk are several indoor and outdoor displays of historical materials, some of which are available for view 24 hours a day. A selection from the archive of Norman B. Leventhal's collection of Maps of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay is located in the lobby of the Boston Harbor Hotel. In the lobby of Building 114 at the

is an exhibition of boat models, photographs and boat building tools. The Maritime Museum at Battery Wharf was built by the developers of the Battery Wharf Hotel as "mitigation" under the state's Chapter 91 law, to compensate the public for private use of waterfront land.

Notable attractions

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Piers Park Piers Park is a public park owned by Massport located on the southwest side of East Boston, overlooking Boston Harbor and downtown Boston. Designed by Pressley Associates Landscape Architects of Boston, the park was conceived to reclaim a condem ...

*Piers Park III (under development) * Institute of Contemporary Art Watershed annex *East Boston Shipyard/ HarborArts *

*Logan Airport Boat Dock *

North of the
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* Charlestown *

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is a 132-bed rehabilitation teaching hospital located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the official teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the m ...

*The

Bunker Hill Monument The Bunker Hill Monument is a monument erected at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, which was among the first major battles between the Red Coats and Patriots in the American Revolutionary War. The 221-foot (67 m) gran ...

, home of the

USS Constitution USS ''Constitution'', also known as ''Old Ironsides'', is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest ship still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized ...

, the

USS Constitution Museum The USS Constitution Museum is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which is part of the Boston National Historical Park in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum is situated near the ship at the end of Boston's Freedom Trail. The m ...

, and the USS Cassin Young *

Paul Revere Park Paul Revere Park is a park located on the Charles River in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The park was the first park to open along the "Lost Half Mile" of the Charles River as mitigation for the taking of planned parkland for the construction of t ...

*The

Zakim Bridge The Leonard P. Zakim () Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (also known as “The Zakim”) is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a replacement for the Charlestown High Bridge, an older truss ...

, the

Charlestown Bridge The Charlestown Bridge, officially named the North Washington Street Bridge, is located in Boston and spans the Charles River. As the river's easternmost crossing, the bridge connects the neighborhoods of Charlestown and the North End. Comple ...

, and the Charles River Dam

Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district ...

New England Aquarium and Boston Harborwalk, P1000069

TD Garden TD Garden is a multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. It is named after its sponsor, TD Bank, a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank of Toronto, Ontario. It opened in 1995 as a replacement for the original Boston Garden and has bee ...

and

North Station North Station is a commuter rail and intercity rail terminal station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is served by four MBTA Commuter Rail lines – the Fitchburg Line, Haverhill Line, Lowell Line, and Newburyport/Rockport Line – and the Amtrak ...

* North End * Copp's Hill *

Coast Guard Base Boston United States Coast Guard Base Boston is located in the North End, Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to a number of cutters, including the , , USCGC ''Marlin'' (WPB-87304), USCGC ''Pendant'' (WYTL-65608) and , along with other small fleet units ...

* Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park *

Faneuil Hall Faneuil Hall ( or ; previously ) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742, it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others ...

and Quincy Market *

New England Aquarium The New England Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include harbor and northern fur seals, California sea lions, African and southern rockhopper penguins, giant Pacific octopuses, weedy seadra ...

*Historic wharves, including Union Wharf,

Lewis Wharf Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End. The granite structures on the wharf were built as an early 19th-century shopping mall in the era before railroads when water transport was the most efficient wa ...

, Long Wharf, Central Wharf,

India Wharf India Wharf (1804-c. 1962) in Boston, Massachusetts, flourished in the 19th century, when it was one of the largest commercial wharves in the port. The structure began in 1804 to accommodate international trade at a time when several other improve ...

, Rowes Wharf, and

Russia Wharf Russia Wharf is a completed high-rise building in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The building rises and contains 32 floors. Construction began in 2006 and was finished in early 2011; as such, the structure is one of the most recently completed ...

Custom House Tower The Custom House Tower is a skyscraper in McKinley Square, in the Financial District neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The original building was constructed in 1837–47 and was designed by Ammi Burnham Young in the Greek Revival style. T ...

and the Custom House District *Ferry service to

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is a national recreation area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. The area is made up of a collection of islands, together with a former island and a penins ...

South Station South Station, officially The Governor Michael S. Dukakis Transportation Center at South Station, is the largest railroad station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston and New England's second-largest transportation center after Logan ...

*Site of the

Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell t ...

* Northern Avenue Bridge * Fort Point Channel and Fort Point, including the Fort Point Pier kayak launch site Moakley Courthouse and Boston Harborwalk 02

Moakley Courthouse and Boston Harborwalk 02

South Boston South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformat ...

* Moakley Courthouse on the Fan Pier *

Boston Children's Museum Boston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the Un ...

* Martin's Park * Institute of Contemporary Art * Boston Fish Pier *

Leader Bank Pavilion The Leader Bank Pavilion is an outdoor amphitheater located in Boston, Massachusetts, used for concerts. It seats 5,000. Its season runs from May until October. The venue originally opened in August 1994 near Fan Pier. Due to land rights, it ...

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(Tours ) *Innovation and Design Building * Castle Island * Carson Beach John F Kennedy sailboat Victura at Kennedy LibraryIMG 20160510 141846009 HDRc

John F Kennedy sailboat Victura at Kennedy LibraryIMG 20160510 141846009 HDRc

On
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in Dorchester

Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate (also known as the Kennedy Institute) is a non-profit civic engagement and educational institution on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to t ...

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963). It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighb ...

Massachusetts Archives The Massachusetts Archives is the state archive of Massachusetts. It "serves the Commonwealth and its citizens by preserving and making accessible the records documenting government action and by assisting government agencies in managing their p ...

, home to such artifacts as the

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Farther south

* Pope John Paul II Park Reservation

Transportation connections

The Harborwalk is served by many

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bus lines. Many public parking lots and garages are nearby. The following subway and commuter rail stops serve the Harborwalk:

Maverick Square Maverick Square is a section of the neighborhood of East Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is East Boston's oldest commercial center. At the heart of the square is Maverick Station, which is part of the Blue Line of the MBTA. In ...

;

, Haymarket,

Aquarium An aquarium (plural: ''aquariums'' or ''aquaria'') is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aq ...

, and

in Downtown Boston;

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, World Trade Center, and Silver Line Way in

South Boston South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformat ...

; and JFK/UMass and

Savin Hill Savin Hill is a section of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Named after the geographic feature it covers and surrounds, Savin Hill is about one square mile in area, and has a population of about 1 ...

in Dorchester. MBTA Boat services stop at the Navy Yard in Charlestown, at

, and at Long Wharf and Rowes Wharf downtown.

Future development

New segments continue to be added to the walk as development occurs along the edge of the harbor. A 2012 report prepared for

concluded that approximately 60% of the total possible length of the Harborwalk has been completed. In 2019, construction was completed on a residential building on the site of the former

Anthony's Pier 4 Anthony's Pier 4 was a restaurant on the South Boston waterfront opened in 1963 by restaurateur Anthony Athanas. In the 1980s it was one of the highest-grossing restaurants in the United States. It closed in 2013 and the site was scheduled for red ...

Restaurant in South Boston. The Harborwalk extends around the new building. The St. Regis residences, a development proposal on a site adjacent to Pier 4, was opposed by an environmental group that argued that the proposal's accommodation of the Harborwalk was inadequate. Construction began in 2019. In October 2018,

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announced a comprehensive

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proposal to protect the

coastline from

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. In February 2022,

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announced an $8.2 million project to construct a 0.7-mile

shared-use path A shared-use path, mixed-use path or multi-use pathway is a path which is 'designed to accommodate the movement of pedestrians and cyclists'. Examples of shared-use paths include sidewalks designated as shared-use, bridleways and rail trails. A ...

from Tenean Beach on the

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to Morrissey Boulevard and that will connect the

with the Harborwalk via Morrissey (including a 670-foot

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in the

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es near the National Grid gas tank) that will be included in the $9.5 billion in federal funds the state government received under the

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Image gallery (from North to South)

File:Harborwalk sign at HarborArts, East Boston Shipyard and Marina.jpg, Harborwalk sign at HarborArts, East Boston Shipyard and Marina File:Harborwalk and Tobin Bridge with woman and child.JPG, Near the northern end of the Charlestown branch of the Harborwalk, with the Tobin Bridge File:Boston Harborwalk at Spaulding Hospital 20190927 124908.jpg, Harborwalk next to

in Charlestown File:USS Constitution Museum, Boston Navy Yard.JPG,

File:Harbor Walk in Boston, MA IMG 2814.JPG, Charlestown near the

File:Zakim Bridge and construction of Boston Harborwalk.JPG, Construction of the Harborwalk, with the

and the

File:2010 waterfront BostonMA 5446401192.jpg, Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park File:2010 LongWharf Boston.jpg, Long Wharf and Central Wharf, with the

File:Harborwalk at the Seaport (13227946735).jpg, Rowes Wharf File:Fort Point, Boston (4775736383).jpg, Fort Point Channel File:USA-Old Northern Avenue Bridge.jpg, The Harborwalk formerly crossed Fort Point Channel on the Old Northern Avenue Bridge File:Childrens Museum and Harborwalk, Boston.JPG,

File:Martin's Park P1030205.jpg, Martin's Park and

File:Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Harborwalk.JPG, Institute of Contemporary Art File:Pier 4 Harborwalk 20190911 121823.jpg, Pier 4 File:Fish Pier P1030171.jpg, Fish Pier File:Harpoon Brewery P1030167.jpg, Harpoon Brewery File:Innovation and Design Building P1030165.jpg, Innovation and Design Building File:Castle Island Park, Boston (493368) (10772222526).jpg, Castle Island File:JFK Library Boston 09222016.jpg, The JFK Presidential Library and Museum as seen from the Boston Harborwalk on the

Columbia Point Columbia Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located east by south ( bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, ...

segment
Boston Globe photo essay

References

External links

Boston Planning and Development Agency web page on HarborwalkBoston Harbor NowMaplets.com trail mapsBoston Globe guide to the Harborwalk
{{University of Massachusetts Boston Boston Harbor Bike paths in Massachusetts Transportation in Boston Financial District, Boston North End, Boston

History

Connections to other trails

Public art

Historical exhibitions

Notable attractions

East Boston East Boston, nicknamed Eastie, is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts annexed by the city of Boston in 1637. Neighboring communities include Winthrop, Revere, and Chelsea. It is separated from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown and d ...

North of the Charles River The Charles River ( Massachusett: ''Quinobequin)'' (sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles) is an river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles bac ...

Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district ...

South Boston South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformat ...

On Columbia Point Columbia Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located east by south ( bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, ... in Dorchester

Farther south

Transportation connections

Future development

Image gallery (from North to South)

References

External links

North of the
Charles River The Charles River ( Massachusett: ''Quinobequin)'' (sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles) is an river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles bac ...

On
Columbia Point Columbia Point is a high mountain summit of the Crestones in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located east by south ( bearing 102°) of the Town of Crestone in Saguache County, Colorado, ...
in Dorchester