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Your guide to beaches, ice cream, seafood, local pools, family-friendly things to do, and more.

J.P. Licks

The ultimate guide to ice cream in Greater Boston

Visiting Boston 🏙️

Summer Fun

15 great things to do along the Charles River

Travel

A guide to Boston's Freedom Trail

Recommendations

Lifelong residents on must-do city activities for Boston visitors

Summer fun ☀️

Culture

40 free outdoor movies in Boston to watch this summer

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Here are the New England amusement parks to visit this summer

Outdoors

15 Cape Cod hiking destinations, one for every town

Ideas to stay cool 🏖️

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Mass. has one of the 10 best beaches in the Northeast, according to USA Today readers

A lifeguard jumps off a diving board into a pool in Newton, MA.
Summer

Here are 87 pools and splash pads to stay cool in Boston

Cape Cod Travel

Cape Cod towns have so many great beaches. Here's why you should visit them.

Ice cream 🍦

ICE CREAM

Where to get the best ice cream on Cape Cod

ICE CREAM

Where to get the best ice cream around Boston

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FRAPPES

Where to get the best frappes in Massachusetts, according to readers

ICE CREAM

Where to get the best ice cream in Somerville and Cambridge

ICE CREAM

21 places to get an ice cream sandwich

Readers Say

27 places that serve deliciously decadent ice cream sundaes

Seafood 🦞

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Readers share their best tips and tricks for cracking open and eating a New England lobster

SEAFOOD

The best clam shacks in New England

Readers Say

We asked for the places that serve the best lobster roll. Here are your favorites.

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Things to do 🤸

Culture

31 things to do in Mass., one for every day in July

Family Fun

10 fun things to do with kids in Boston, according to local experts

When it rains…

10 things to do in Boston on a rainy day

Red Sox ⚾️

President of the Boston Red Sox Sam Kennedy (L) and Red Sox manager Alex Cora speak to reporters during the Red Sox season-ending press conference.
Red Sox

8 takeaways from Red Sox’ end-of-season press conference

Blaze Jordan is seen during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby at Progressive Field on July 08, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Blaze Jordan

Red Sox prospect Blaze Jordan details battle with anxiety, depression

Red Sox

Watch: Mariners pitcher George Kirby throws knuckleball as tribute to Tim Wakefield

Red Sox newsletter 📧

Things To Do

Arts

Attend the 2023-2024 season of the Boston Ballet

Thursday, October 5 7:00 pm

Festivals

Listen to live street music at Somerville’s HONK! Festival

Friday, October 6 All Day

Festival

Attend the nation's first 'Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon'

Saturday, October 7 10:00 am

Festivals & Expos

Eat your veggies at the Boston Veg Food Fest

Saturday, October 14 10:00 am

Festivals

Celebrate books at the 15th Annual Boston Book Festival

Saturday, October 14 10:00 am

Area Four Tech Square Beer Garden
Beer

Acclaimed brewers pop up at the A4 Beer Garden in Cambridge

Saturday, October 14 1:00 pm

Fourth of July 🎆

Fireworks explode over the Charles River during the 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular.
Culture

How to watch the 2023 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular

Fireworks over the Charles River during the 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular.
Events

All of the fireworks shows happening in Massachusetts this summer

Confetti filled the sky at the end of the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular at the Hatch Memorial Shell stage on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, MA on July 04, 2022.
Culture

2023 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular announces lineup, special guests

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