Quincy Shore Reservation

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

Stretch of beach in Quincy Shore Reservation

The area Quincy Shore Reservation is a designated as a State Park Coastal Reserve in the Quincy Bay in Boston Harbor in the city of Quincy, Massachusetts in the United States, which was established in 1899. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston.

The biggest attraction of the park is a 2.3 mi ( 3.7 km ) long beach called Wollaston Beach, which is accessible along its entire length on the Quincy Shore Drive. Thus, the beach is the largest of its kind in the Boston Harbor. He was named the city of Quincy to the present in the immediate vicinity of the district Wollaston.

The protected area is located at the hill Moswetuset Hummock the place where in 1621 the commander of the Plymouth Colony Myles Standish had the first contact with the Sachem Chickatawbut. Similarly, there is the Caddy Park, a protected salt marsh nearby picnic areas.