Most have some type of bridges as functional elements. Directions Directions are readily available upon request. See basemap and USGS 7.5x15 quadrangle maps for Boston South, Boston North, Framingham, Hull, Lynn, Norwood, and Weymouth quads for general details. Exceptions do occurr. MDC throughfares vary in location from rural through suburban on into intensively urban, and in settings which range from parkland, riverine and coastal to residential and industrial.
Most parkways tend to keep to the lowlands tending to follow water courses.
Park roadways tend to be contour or boundery related. History MDC throughfares date to the Metropolitan Park Commission's earliest activities in 1893 with the development of intra-reservation roadways and fireroads. Inter-reservation parkways date to the 1894 Boulevard Act, with construction running in cycles from the 1890s through the 1930s. Several state highways were absorbeed in the 1940s while a number of City of Boston park-relaterd roadways were absorbed by the Commission in 1956. Designed as scenic pleasure drives, and in the early days as horse-drawn carriage ways, the parkways ironically helped engendered much subsequenet suburban development.