Walk in Boston # 8, the trendy Fort Point & Seaport Districts

Walk in Boston # 8, the trendy Fort Point & Seaport Districts, will allow you to explore a part of the city that is thriving and to guess what it once was.

​It is one of the 4 essentials walks to get to know Boston better.

It is also 2.5 miles unusual self-guided tour at the western tip of South Boston that will take you 2 to 5 hours to complete depending on what you decide to do.

🍰There is an excerpt of it below to give you an idea of what ​​it is.

 ❤️ Otherwise, it is available in full for a few $ on Payhip/ImagesVoyagesImpressions in a PDF file that you'll be able to download on your phone.

😁NB: 

• You can read much more about the general content and philosophy of these walks on the home page and see some comments there too.
• The excerpt is the beginning of the description (a bit truncated here), after the full map and the useful info about highlights, metros, buses, bikes, restrooms, and so on. 🚇
• The letters correspond to points indicated on the map, so you always know where you are along the trail or where you're heading.

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A: Your walk starts at ... so take an T-stop exit that goes directly there or enter the building if you exited somewhere else.

The hall is worth a look and, in addition to the usual animation of a station, you will find many restaurants there. Behind glass doors, you can see the Amtrak trains and they will remind you that there are many other destinations to explore once you are done with Boston.
 
Next, go up to the pharmacy on the 1st floor to have a plunging view of this hall if you go to the windows at the rear, then leave the station by its main doors to admire its exterior architecture.
 
You should be on ... Street and your direction, South Boston, will be beyond the bridge that you can see in the distance. Otherwise, ask a passer-by to put you in the right direction.

At the end of the bridge, two solutions:
 

• To quickly reach the more modern part of the Seaport while passing through some old industrial buildings: take a staircase that goes down to the left, runs along the channel to go back up towards ... St., and then turn left to go directly to point C.
• For a longer walk among the old industrial buildings, take the staircase on the right and follow the Harborwalk for a few dozen meters to ... Ct. on your left, just after the terrace of a restaurant. This is what the map indicates.

 
The modern building in the shape of a boat's bow that you see a little further on, finished in 2024, is that of the pharmaceutical company Lilly and it mainly houses research laboratories.
 
You will now enter what remains of this South Boston neighborhood where boats and trains used to come and where many products were transformed in the red bricks industrial buildings that you still see.

Those which have not yet been transformed into apartments will soon be and this is where you will start to find some of the restaurants that now make the reputation of the neighborhood.
 
Walk in ... Ct toward ... St that you will take on the left before turning right on ...Street.

(The rest is on the PDF...)

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NB: In case you haven't seen it already, the map showing you where all these walks are is on the Walk in Boston page, along with links to some walks’ bundles offers and suggestions for your first visit.