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 Fresh Pond Parkway in February 2010 | |
| Maintained by | Department of Conservation and Recreation |
| Length | 1.0 mi (1.6 km)[1] |
| Location | Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
| South end |   US 3 / Route 2 in Cambridge |
| North end |  US 3 / Route 2 / Route 16 in Cambridge |
| Construction | |
| Completion | 1899 |
Fresh Pond Parkway-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston | |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | Charles Eliot, Olmstead Brothers |
| MPS | Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 04001429[2] |
| Added to NRHP | January 5, 2005 |
Fresh Pond Parkway is a historic park and parkway on the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The parkway was built in 1899 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Fresh Pond Parkway is a four-lane road (two lanes in each direction) stretching from Mount Auburn Street on its southern end to a rotary at Concord Avenue (formerly Cambridge and Concord Turnpike) and Alewife Brook Parkway to the north. Much of the parkway acts as the eastern boundary for portions of the city's municipal Fresh Pond reservoir area and connects the reservoir to the Charles River Reservation.
The parkway is part of Massachusetts Route 2 (Route 2) and U.S. Route 3 (US 3) for its entire length. The portion north of Huron Avenue is also part of Route 16.
- ^ "Fresh Pond Parkway" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.