Worth the trip around Boston
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
Boston Harbor does the work here: Fort Warren on Georges Island at 11.6 km, Fort Strong and its batteries at 9.1 km, Long Island Head Light (1901) at 9 km, Deer Island Light, The Graves Light at 15.7 km. Sixty-seven beaches follow, Pleasure Bay Beach at 4.2 km first. Up the coast, Derby Wharf Light and Fort Pickering Light (1871) in Salem sit right at the edge of the circle.
The 234 peaks are the odd number. Boston is not mountainous; these are the city's named hills, Beacon Hill 0.5 km from the center, Copps Hill, Breeds Hill at 2 km, Meeting House Hill. The Custom House Tower Observation Deck at 0.5 km and Eliot Tower (1934) at 16.7 km are the viewpoints worth the climb. An island fort takes a ferry to reach, and RLQuest still checks that you got there.
Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Boston.
Few places to many
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
