Urban wilds in Roxbury

Prompted by a UniversalHub post to the blog Lizkdc Dislocation, we poked around the Urban Wilds page at the CityofBoston.gov site.

Things seemed very familiar.  The names of two of the first-listed urban wilds leaped out at us:  Back of the Hill and Cedar Street.

John Eliot Square Urban Wild (photo from CityofBoston.gov)

The a little more poking turned up an urban wild said to be at John Eliot Square.

It seemed a high percentage that, out of all of Boston, three urban wilds should be in Roxbury. 

Then marching through all of the listings, we found five more:  Iroquois Woods, Parker Hilltop/McLaughlin Woodlands, Puddingstone Garden, Rockledge, and Warren Gardens.


Who knew?  While none of them are as impressive as the Allandale Woods featured on Liz Kelleher's blog, eight of the urban wilds listed on the City of Boston web site are located in Roxbury.