Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Fresh Pond is a reservoir and park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to the Pond's use exclusively as a reservoir, its ice had been harvested by Boston's "Ice King", Frederic Tudor, and others, for shipment to North American cities and to tropical areas around the world. Fresh Pond is bordered by Fresh Pond Parkway, Huron Avenue, Grove Street, Blanchard Road, and Concord Avenue.
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Fresh Pond in October 2010 | |
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General plan for Fresh Pond Park, by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm (1897). "[A]lmost none of the plans to relocate the carriage drive [to the route shown] were ever implemented." | |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°23′N 71°9′W |
| Type | reservoir |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Surface area | 155 acres (63 ha) |
| Surface elevation | 3 ft 3 in (1 m) |
| Website | Fresh Pond Reservation |
Fresh Pond Reservation consists of a 155-acre (627,000 m²) kettle hole lake, and 162 acres (656,000 m²) of surrounding land, with a 2.25 mile (3.6 km) perimeter road popular with walkers, runners and cyclists, and a nine-hole golf course. Part of the Watertown–Cambridge Greenway, a rail trail on the alignment of the former Watertown Branch Railroad, runs along the east side of the pond.