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Old 07-05-2020, 06:35 PM
 
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Are there swimming holes like in NY state. The beaches seem nice but the parking seems iffy . So i prefer a more low key swimming place
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Old 07-05-2020, 06:52 PM
 
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most cities have public pools.
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Old 07-06-2020, 07:24 AM
 
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I’d say a swimming hole an informal place to swim. If it’s in a rural area then profbabky not illegal just informal — no life guards no facilities. Massachusetts has plenty of swimming holes just like New York. With swimming holes you have to live there and know where they are. One exception I can think of is in the Connecticut River just off route 9 in Northampton. uMass has a sculling float there. You can swim off the float. Water is lovely, the cars hum over the Calvin Coolidge bridge and kids swing off a rope into the water from the island across the way. In the Boston area I don’t know. Urban areas tend to make the swimming illegal except in formal locations. There must be swimming holes in some rivers like the Sudbury and the Charles (upstream, like in Dover or Medfield). Natural lakes or ponds like Spot Pond, Spy Pond... you could jump in, whose going to stop you? I’ve heard of nighttime skinny dipping in Jamaica Pond in years past. Walden Pond is a combination of formal guarded beach and swimming hole because you can swim at any point along the shore not only at the guarded beach. But the parking is iffy just like the salt water beaches. Houghtons Pond in the Blue Hills has a beach and plenty of parking. Also a pond in the breakheart Reservation with a guarded beach but you can probably jump in from elsewhere along the shore too.
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Old 07-06-2020, 08:23 AM
 
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New Hampshire lakes region is probably your best bet.
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Old 07-06-2020, 09:23 AM
 
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This website may be of some help

https://outsideanalytics.com/outly/explore/water
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Old 07-06-2020, 09:44 AM
 
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New Hampshire lakes region is probably your best bet.
Where are the swimming spots in Boston area.
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Old 07-06-2020, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Bergen County, New Jersey
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Old 07-07-2020, 11:06 AM
 
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Breakheart in Saugus has a couple small lakes for swimming. They can get crowded though.


https://www.mass.gov/locations/breakheart-reservation
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Old 07-11-2020, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Baltimore
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Houghtons Pond
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Old 07-12-2020, 09:30 PM
 
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Are you talking about abandoned quarries?
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