DK Travel : Boston : Boston South

Boston South : Overview & Top 10

South of Fort Point Channel, Boston’s neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Dorchester, and South Boston are a mixture of densely residential streets and leafy parklands that form part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace (see Boston Common & Public Garden). The lively street scenes of Boston’s African-American, Latin American, and Irish-American communities make the city’s southerly neighborhoods a dynamic ethnic contrast to the more homogenized city core. Virtually ignored by tourists, Boston South is full of quirky shops, local bars, hot nightclubs, and great off-beat places to enjoy ethnic food. This area is a little harder to reach but it is worth the effort to experience a more edgy, diverse Boston that many call home.

Note: For the parks and cemetery take the “T” down to Green Street or Forest Hills (orange line) Note: Parks and cemeteries are generally open from dawn to dusk Note: Take the “T” to Dudley Square for Roxbury (silver line), or to Jackson Square for Jamaica Plain (orange line) Note: For the John F. Kennedy Library and the east of the area catch the “T” to JFK/U Mass (red line)