Best place to jog
There's no shortage of personalities in American cultural history who have left their mark firmly embedded on Boston's landscape. Paul Revere carved out the Freedom Trail, Henry David Thoreau made a glorified puddle a national icon, and - as streams of daily joggers can attest - Frederick Law Olmsted, the visionary landscape artist behind Central Park, left his signature along the Charles River in the form of grassy oases. These green spaces are just one of the bonuses to jogging along the Esplanade, an escape from the sight (though not necessarily the sound) of maddening traffic, where the physically fit can tone their muscles or boost their speed year-round - except, of course, when the path is sabotaged by picnicking patriots on the Fourth of July. And when it's time for a pulse check or a pause to savor the foliage, there are footbridges leading to Beacon Street and over the swirling waters of the Charles.