The Sam Adams Brewery, located in Jamaica Plain, is a Boston landmark. This is the original brewery for Sam Adams beer and is where you can go to take a tour, learn about the brewing process, sample all of the products (the most fun part), and learn all about the history of the company of Sam Adams. Tours are held on: Monday-Thursday 10-3, Fridays 10-5:30, Saturday 10-3, Tours depart on an hourly basis and last around 45 minutes.

The pond is a natural feature, a "kettle pond" it was formed by glacial recession during the last Ice Age. It is also a park, making up a piece of the "Emerald Necklace". It is approximately a mile around and that makes its circular path a favorite place for walkers and runners. The Jamaica Pond was a habitat for Neponset Indians for part of the year in the era before English settlers arrived. In the 1790s it became a water supply for Boston. The ranger station under the bandstand has one of the high tech waterpipes from that time on display (a hollowed out log). Later, the Pond became a player in the ice industry, with cutters taking the ice, storing it in ice houses on the banks and shipping it far and wide. Nowadays, the Jamaica Pond is an idyllic enclave in a bustling world (that is, if you can ignore the cars zipping by on the roads that surround it!)

This garden is run by neighborhood residents/volunteers. It has forty plots of various sizes, natural and landscaped communal areas, and an informal atmosphere. The property is owned by the Boston Natural Areas Fund. Membership/Dues: $20 per year + 6 hours of community work.

As Boston's second largest wooded area, Allandale Woods is a crucial component of the city's natural areas inventory. Allandale Woods is located behind the Arnold Arboretum on the Jamaica Plain/West Roxbury line and is bordered roughly by Allandale Street, Centre Street, the VFW Parkway, and Hackensack Road. The acquisition of conservation land at Allandale Woods in 1975 represented the first step in creating the Charles-to-Charles open space corridor, an 8-mile open space belt of existing parkland, private estates, and wetlands that stretches from the Fens and the Charles River Basin, along the Boston/Brookline boundary, and through the Sawmill marshes to the Charles River in West Roxbury. Composed primarily of oaks, maples, and pines, Allandale Woods is one of the few relatively pristine secondary growth oak-hickory forests in the city of Boston. Trails, laid out by the Appalachian Mountain Club in 1992, run throughout the site leading to various areas fo interest including three ponds, several streams, and a marsh.

Tucked between the Forest Hills Station and the Arnold Arboretum, the Bussey Brook Urban Wild, also called the South Street tract, has recently been incorporated into the arboretum. As part of the annexation, a stabilized stonedust pathway was constructed through the wild from Forest Hills Station to South Street. Select areas were cleared of prior vegetation and replanted. However, the majority of the site remains in its former condition. Boasting a small section of the Stony Brook, this is the last area where the brook can be seen before it is funneled into the conduit to the lower basin of the Charles River. As a low-lying area, the wild is composted of a marsh and upraised filled land.