Cascades Park abuts a number of other conservation areas and parks, which are all publicly accessible! It’s within hiking distance from Cascades East and West, which are Land Trust Properties and Boynton Park which is a city park. Cascades Park can be accessed from Cataract Street off from Mower Street in the Tatnuck Square area.

This park has some really cool history, the land that makes up the spot pictured here was once held by George Newton, this was when the Tatnuck area was a summer community with summer cottages for people looking to escape the city’s industrial center. It was gifted to the city from Newton in 1926. Prior to the role of the Cascades area being a hiking, summer recreation destination, the area was inhabited by Native American tribes.

The cascading water is definitely one of the main attractions of this whole wooded area, although there is an amazing network of hiking trails as well as a number of geographic feature, like the enormous boulders at the top of the waterfall area, resulting from glacial activity, and given the name Wunneompset, which means good/beautiful rock.