Why families will enjoy it
Between the Aquarium and Faneuil Hall, the Greenway concentrates its child-service into one legendary pairing. The custom carousel replaces horses with fourteen hand-carved New England species - children ride a lobster, a cod, a grasshopper, a peregrine falcon - designed from local schoolchildren's drawings, spinning seasonally for a small fee (verify season and price at rosekennedygreenway.org). Fifty meters away, the Rings Fountain fires choreographed jets from flush granite with no barriers: on warm days children simply run in, so the standing parental doctrine is spare clothes in the daypack, always. Both sit directly on this guide's family route between the Aquarium and lunch, converting the transfer walk itself into an attraction. Budget thirty happy minutes and one wardrobe change; shaded lawns handle the drying.
