Wikipedia:WikiProject Massachusetts/Metropolitan Park System Task Force

WP:MPTF

The Metropolitan Park System Task Force is responsible for maintaining and upgrading existing articles and creating new articles whose topics are elements of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The task force is in its initial organizational phase and welcomes new input at the new talk page, WT:MPTF. Among the goals are completion of the creation of articles for all of the reservations and parks within the system. Articles should include the {{Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston}} navigational template at the bottom. Articles currently needed, with associated link to the DCR page on the site, are:

Parks

Quincy Shores Reservation is an example of a recently created stub article that can be used as a template for creation of any of the articles below.

Recently completed

Done Hammond Pond Reservation – an extensive forest preserve and protected wetlands (Newton) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/hammond.htm
Done Lynn Heritage State Park – nineteenth century shoemaking exhibits and waterfront park (Lynn) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/lnhp.htm
Done Lynn Shore Reservation – oceanside parks and beaches (Lynn) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/lynnshores.htm
Done Nahant Beach Reservation – oceanside parks and beaches (Nahant) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/lynnshores.htm
Done Roxbury Heritage State Park – Revolutionary War-era house and park (Roxbury) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/rxhp.htm
Done Southwest Corridor Park – linear park along former rail lines (South End, Back Bay, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/southwestCorr.htm
Done Stony Brook Reservation – hiking, cycling, fishing; scenery (Hyde Park, West Roxbury) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/stony.htm
Done Wilson Mountain Reservation – wildlife and walking areas; acquired 1995 (Dedham) http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/wilson.htm

Roads

Recently completed

Done Day Boulevard (South Boston)
Done Park Drive (Boston) – parkway in the Fens and part of the Emerald Necklace.
Done Soldiers Field Road (Allston)

In progress

Needed

Look here later for updated information on other roads needed.

Greenough Boulevard (Cambridge, Watertown) extension of Memorial Drive at Fresh Pond Parkway
Land Boulevard (Cambridge)
Lynnway (Lynn) [relation to Carroll Parkway?]
Nonantum Road (Boston, Newton, Watertown) extension of Soldiers Field Road

Issues

Muddy River Reservation

Signage on the Fenway and Park Drive suggests there is an actual reservation called Muddy River Reservation, similar to Blue Hills, Stony Brook and so on. However, only the streets and sidewalks are maintained by DCR, unlike all the other reservations where the DCR also owns and operates the parks. Searching Google using the "inurl:mass.gov" and "site:mass.gov" filters each return no results for "Muddy River Reservation". It appears the only presence of this phrase with any official meaning is the signs located on these parkways and possibly others. In order to avoid confusion, and since the parks themselves are actually part of the Boston Parks Department Emerald Necklace, we are not including this phrase in the navbox or article texts, as it doesn't appear in the list of parks in the Metropolitan Park System on the DCR website. Official information from the DCR via a reliable source (other than the signage) regarding the establishment and extent of what the signage calls Muddy River Reservation is needed. An email to DCR has been sent regarding this as well.