The Freedom Trail in Boston has once again been named one of the best free attractions in the country by USA Today.

Congress insisted that the National Park Service establish a park in Boston, and that it encompass the Freedom Trail sites and the old Charlestown Navy Yard that President Nixon had decommissioned in ...

Stretching throughout Boston from the Boston Common in Downtown all the way up to Charlestown, the Freedom Trail is the ...

Boston Common is the oldest park in the U.S., dating back to 1634. It was a cow pasture until 1830, when the British Army camped there during the Revolutionary War. Now, it’s the official start ...

Boston newspapers first pitched plans for a proto-Freedom Trail in the 1930s. But the idea didn’t catch on until after World War II. By that point, most of the city’s once-massive textile ...

In the 2025 budget awards, ranking affordable attractions like bus services, buffets and hotel brands across the country, Boston's Freedom Trail ranked sixth in the best free attraction category.

Protestor Doreen Wade, of Cambridge, who, as a 6-year-old attended the 1965 Freedom Rally, knees during a speech by Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll commemorating the 60th anniversary of it on ...

On April 23, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Freedom Rally in Boston. More than 20,000 people marched from Roxbury to the Boston Common to protest racial inequality. Load YouTube video On ...

A painted section of the historic Boston Freedom Trail in Downtown Crossing (Shown in photo), seen in 2014. Credit - Essdras M Suarez—The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s summertime, which ...