Boylston Street

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Boylston Street is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs. It begins at its eastern end in central Boston as the continuation of Essex Street at the intersection of Tremont, and forms the southern boundary of Boston Common, past Charles Street, the Boston Public Garden. West of Arlington Street it becomes a major commercial artery in the city's Back Bay neighborhood, and forms the northern boundary of busy Copley Square. The street then forms the northern boundary of the Back Bay Fens, the direction of traffic switching from west-east to east-west. It then runs through the Fenway neighborhood through a swath of parking lots and other underutilized space, before ending at the intersection of Brookline Avenue and Park Drive.

The street continues to the south through the town of Brookline and the city of Newton as the continuation of Boston's Huntington Avenue (Route 9), where it forms a divided highway.