Marina Bay Amelia Earhart Airport, 2 or 4 miles (your choice) skyline ocean view

Join South Shore Walkabouts and see this beautiful and historic area of Quincy.

Squantum Point Park is a 50-acre park at Marina Bay with an interesting shore location, a park located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy, Massachusetts and located on the site of the former Squantum Naval Air Station. All that remains of the former air station is part of a runway which runs for 2,700 feet.
Here's what it looks like at the point, see photos.

Moswetuset Hummock, historic site (off E Squantum st) to Huckins Ave to Bayside to Dorchester St (Squaw Rock) and back to the hummock is about 3 to 3.5 miles after walking through Marina Bay and Squantum Point Park (former landing strip).

For the 2-mile walkers:
We will meet at the green arrow, a small, white hut at the end of the parking lot. (Note: lot closes at 8.) Take Miwra Haul Rd, Quincy, MA to this parking lot and look for the hut and a bridge out into the harbor.
For the 4-mile walkers:
We will meet across the street from 440 East Squantum St, Quincy, MA at the Moswetuset Hummock Park.
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SOME HISTORY
Following the Wrights Brothers' successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, Quincy was in the forefront of the burgeoning aviation industry, with several early aeromeets held here. It was at a 1912 aeromeet in Quincy's Squantum section that pioneering aviatrix Harriet Quimby was killed. The first woman to fly the English Channel, Quimby and her passenger, William Willard, fell from her plane as it nosed down over Dorchester Bay as thousands of spectators looked on in horror. 11 years later in 1923, Logan Airport had its first airplane landing.

Quincy later played host to yet another famous female aviator: Amelia Earhart, who once held a financial interest in Quincy's Dennison Airport. Earhart disappeared in 1937 somewhere over the Pacific as she attempted to fly around the world.

In the late 1930's and during wartime in the 1940's, some 2000 Navy pilots trained at the airbase, including Joseph Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy. During World War II, Joseph Kennedy died in a plane crash over the English Channel.
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Directions:
Drive from Commander Shea Boulevard or from Marina Bay (off East Squantum St.), not too far from the boardwalk near the yacht club where we can stop to get ice cream an take some snapshots of the boats.
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At Squantum Point, visitors can see the Boston skyline across the harbor. (It is so close, you feel you could just walk across in a few minutes.)

http://www.opengreenmap.org/greenmap/quincy-green-map/squantum-point-park-605
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Parking: For the 3.5 mile walk, we'll meet at the parking lot for wes...
Across the street from Kennedy Senior Center, 440 E. Squantum St., Quincy, MA

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