Our A-to-Z Guide can answer your questions! More ». Learn about all your available options for getting to Fenway Park, including directions, parking and more. Learn More ». Take a tour of America's Most Beloved Ballpark today! Individual and group tours are available every day and offer walking tours of Fenway. Ballpark Tour information ». Fenway Park has hosted presidents and legends, All-Stars and rock stars.
Now it can host your event! Shiny, minimalist fast-casual joints seem to have taken over the Fenway. They signal the birth of the New Fenway—one in which young urbanites munch on kale salads instead of sausage sandwiches from street vendors. Leif Erikson statue photo via Wikimedia Commons.
The thing is, Leif Erikson never set foot in the Bay State. The statue—among other Viking tributes—was funded and erected by a Harvard chemistry professor named Eben Norton Horsford, who claimed that the Vikings arrived to the U. Horsford was obsessed with convincing people of this. So much, in fact, that he claimed to have located the lost Viking city of Norumbega on the banks of the Charles River.
To make all of this seem official, Horsford sank his own money into erecting the statue for Leif Erikson on the Comm. While Fenway doesn't offer the same level of shopping as, for example, Back Bay's Newbury Street, you can find some unique places to shop here. Outside, a reflecting pool, splash fountains, and lushly planted gardens form an oasis in this corner of the city. If you're coming to a Red Sox game, spend the night or the weekend at one of the nearby hotels, such as the luxurious Hotel Commonwealth :.
Check out more hotels near Fenway Park. Fenway boasts one of the city's liveliest dining scenes, particularly along the stretch of Boylston Street starting near Fenway Park where you'll find sports bars and burgers don't miss Tasty Burger's Green Monster milkshake! More about dining in Fenway. Fifteen colleges, universities, and professional schools call Fenway "home," giving it the highest concentration of higher education institutes of any Boston neighborhood.
Find more information about each of these Fenway colleges, universities, and schools at Universities and Colleges in Boston. The acre Longwood Medical Area bounded by Riverway, the Fenway, and Huntington Ave contain some of the world's premier medical research and care institutions, as well as top academic institutions. More than 40, people work within the LMA, more than 18, students study here, and approximately 1 million patients receive care here each year.
The Longwood Symphony Orchestra, made up of members of Boston's medical community who are also highly accomplished musicians, performs concerts throughout the year. Find their schedule here. Caveat: These boundaries are approximate, and opinions about Fenway boundaries vary. Boston neighborhoods don't have "official" boundaries, so they're often ambiguous and sometimes contentious.
On-street parking is almost non-existent in most areas of Fenway, aside from a few metered spaces along some parts of Boylston Street, Huntington Ave, Mass Ave, and Commonwealth Ave and a few nearby streets. You're almost always better off taking the T, especially on Red Sox game days. But if you must drive, check out nearby parking garages and lots. Look for changes to the Fenway landscape during the next few years as Fenway Center , a huge 1. If you look around densely-developed Fenway today, you may question where Fenway Center could possibly be built?
With much of Boston already built on land created during the s by filling bays, swamps, and marshes, Fenway Center will break new ground, so to speak. Stay tuned!
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