The 635-foot-tall Great Blue Hill is the highest point in Milton's 22-peak mountain chain. The Blue Hills Skyline Trail is a 15-mile rollercoaster that crosses the mountain ridge, providing breathtaking vistas of the Boston metropolitan area and the Harbor Islands.
The eclectic home on the estate, built by renowned architect William Ralph Emerson and constructed in 1878 for William Ellery Channing Eustis, is a notable example of Late Victorian architecture.
Until 1962, the residence housed members of the Forbes family for four generations.The Forbes House Museum showcases their international travels, business successes, and charitable contributions.
Eliot Tower in Blue Hills Reservation offers 270-degree views of the Blue Hills and the Boston cityscape. It became part of the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
You may visit the Blue Hills Reservation during the warmer months to enjoy Houghton's Pond. It is a kettle hole pond, a type of pond supplied by a spring formed when glaciers retreated in the last ice age.