Hyde Park Riverwalk

The proposed Hyde Park Riverwalk will stretch for half a mile from the Shops at Riverwood to the West Street Urban Wild.   It will cross over several acres of filled land created by the DCR (then MDC) when they dredged the Neponset River in the mid 20th century.  Until very recently this land was so cut off by fences and hidden by thick vegetation that most residence didn’t know it existed.  Some residents in the neighborhood were not aware that the river existed just a few short blocks away.  Exploratory clearing was begun in 2022 to reveal an extraordinarily beautiful stretch of river which, unlike the Charles River or the Mystic River to the north, has no roadways crowding its banks.   Property surveys completed in the spring of 2023 indicated much more land owned by the state than previously thought along with numerous private encroachments.  As part of the Second annual Doyle Park Day in the spring of 2023 community members were invited to walk along their riverfront for the very first time.