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Saturdays open up larger vistas: you can follow Paul Revere's routh around Concord and Lexington, with a side trip to the "rude bridge that arched the food." Or you can drop in on the domain of Henry D. Thoreau, 1837, at Walden Pond and stay for a drip. Or, two bucks will get you a Youth Hostel Card that will make a weekend trip to Gloucester or the Cape a cinch...
...these wishing to stick closer to Cambridge, several mediocre courses are within fifteen minutes of the Square. Nearest is Fresh Pond Golf Course, a nine hole Cambridge Municipal affair. Short, in poor condition, and fairly uninteresting, Fresh Pond's only advantage is the fact that it can be reached by driving 2 1/2 miles along Concord Avenue...
Greens fees on most of these courses are $1.25 on weekdays and slightly higher on weekends. the lowest daily rate is $.75, charged by Fresh Pond. The highest fee is the $2.00 charged by Ponkapoag...
Regardless of what people are told, there will always be those who decide that Walden Pond is a good place for a picnic. These people, impressed by the sylvan mutterings of Thoreau, will meet many, many more just like themselves at the old cabin site, and will find pleasant, quiet picnicking a difficult task indeed...
...less fortunate, the Spot Pond reservation out in Melrose is an interesting sector with wooded coverage. This small region has cooking facilities and generally isn't crowded. It can be found by following route 28 out of Sommerville right to Spot Pond...