Buck Hill, Blue Hills Reservation MA

• 4-star hikes • 1 to 3 mile options • Moderate | Gain 260 to 580 feet • Milton, MA | MetroWest Region . The Boston skyline from Buck Hill's wide open summit. Buck Hill is a modest summit tucked inside the Blue Hills Reservation, a sprawling state park just south of Boston. The well-known Skyline Trail runs directly across its peak, acting as the central thread that connects the entire hike from start to finish. Despite what its name might suggest, this particular stretch of the Skyline Trail offers very little open sky at first. Instead, hikers spend most of their time immersed in dense forest, walking beneath a thick canopy of trees even as the path crosses the wooded peaks of neighboring Tucker Hill and Boyce Hill. The real visual payoff waits at Buck Hill itself, where the trees finally give way to a partly open summit blanketed in low shrubs. From this rocky vantage point, clear sightlines stretch outward toward Great Blue Hill's observation tower to the west, and reach all the…

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