Deer Island

Highlights

Exploration of the sewage treatment plant for the entire Boston metropolitan area and beyond. It really is impressive to see the scale of this operation. A piece of life that everyone takes for granted
Historic reference information kiosks about the terrible history of the island including the savage imprisonment of natives.
Great views of the city from across the harbor

Challenges

Not the most nature-centric hike
Dreadful history has occured here

The middle of November in New England is a pretty dreary time. My partner and I found the perfect hike for the moment in a Hiking Through New England History book at the library. The history of the island includes famine after atrocity and is capped off with the construction of a sewage treatment facility. The walk circumnavigated the island, now a pensinsula after a storm connected it to the mainland. The treatment facility is impressive as is the range and quantity of the waste it processes. Explore this hike when you want to, sort of, escape the city and are feeling the right sort of weird.

Regions

White Mountain National Forest

Southern New Hampsire

Massachusetts

Connecticut

Maine

Vermont

Tropics and Subtropics

American West