W e work every day to restore, maintain, and advocate for the Emerald Necklace parks. Our projects are our care in action.
We work day in and day out to restore, maintain, and advocate for the good of the community. Our projects are our care in action.
Each park and neighborhood has a story to tell and brighter future to live.
We protect the special resources of the Olmsted parks ecosystem to ensure these historic parks thrive as destinations for fun, free, and healthy activity in the heart of the city.
Along with our park advisors, who represent more than 20 park friend groups, organizations and institutions, we focus on improving access to—and through—the Emerald Necklace, inclusive public education, habitat maintenance and care, and raising awareness beyond preservation to build social justice. Like Olmsted, we believe green space is a basic human right. Explore what we've been up to.
Charlesgate
Key Project
Charlesgate
Key Project
Olmsted Tree Society
Key Project
Olmsted Tree Society
Key Project
Shattuck Hospital
Key Project
Shattuck Hospital
Key Project
White Stadium
Key Project
White Stadium
Key Project
projects
We're building greener, healthier futures, one project at a time.
We bring together public and private park partners to prioritize, fund and implement restoration initiatives to keep the park systems thriving for years to come.
Land & water
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The world didn't start with Olmsted. For millennia before and in the centuries since Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Emerald Necklace park system for a rapidly industrializing city and metropolitan area, the lands and waters of and around Greater Boston have served as a site of exchange among communities including the Massachusett, Pawtucket, Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy acknowledges the Greater Boston region as their unceded ancestral territories. This acknowledgement is a starting point toward right relations with Indigenous neighbors and their understandings of land stewardship.
Shattuck Visitor Center
Year-Round
Mon-Fri 9:30am – 5pm
May-October
Sat-Sun 10am – 4pm
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 04-3414988.
Land & water
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The world didn't start with Olmsted. For millennia before and in the centuries since Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Emerald Necklace park system for a rapidly industrializing city and metropolitan area, the lands and waters of and around Greater Boston have served as a site of exchange among communities including the Massachusett, Pawtucket, Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy acknowledges the Greater Boston region as their unceded ancestral territories. This acknowledgement is a starting point toward right relations with Indigenous neighbors and their understandings of land stewardship.
Shattuck Visitor Center
Year-Round
Mon-Fri 9:30am – 5pm
May-October
Sat-Sun 10am – 4pm
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 04-3414988.
Land & water
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The world didn't start with Olmsted. For millennia before and in the centuries since Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Emerald Necklace park system for a rapidly industrializing city and metropolitan area, the lands and waters of and around Greater Boston have served as a site of exchange among communities including the Massachusett, Pawtucket, Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy acknowledges the Greater Boston region as their unceded ancestral territories. This acknowledgement is a starting point toward right relations with Indigenous neighbors and their understandings of land stewardship.
Shattuck Visitor Center
Year-Round
Mon-Fri 9:30am – 5pm
May-October
Sat-Sun 10am – 4pm
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 04-3414988.
