Sometimes the best escape from city life is hiding right inside the city itself, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston proves that nature doesn’t need to be hours away to feel like a different world.
This sprawling green sanctuary offers 281 acres of pure botanical bliss that’ll make you forget you’re still technically in one of America’s busiest metropolitan areas.
Let’s be honest: when most people think of Boston, they picture the Freedom Trail, Fenway Park, or maybe that confusing rotary near the airport that seems designed to test your relationship with whoever’s navigating.
But tucked away in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood sits a treasure that’s been quietly amazing visitors since the 1870s…