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MIT & the Innovation Mile

From the Great Dome to Kendall Square's biotech skyline

Self-guided walking tour in Cambridge · 2.0 mi · walking · ~1h 28m · 6 stops

MIT & the Innovation Mile — From the Great Dome to Kendall Square's biotech skyline · MassRoam self-guided tour
▶ Narrated — included with MassRoam+
About this walk

This is the Cambridge mile that keeps rewriting itself — from MIT's postcard Great Dome to Frank Gehry's tumbling Stata Center and the biotech towers of Kendall Square, one of the densest innovation districts on the planet.

A campus is an argument in brick about what education is for. Cambridge has a long-running one. Six stops over 2.0 miles, about an hour of walking. Each one starts talking the moment you reach it, so you can keep your eyes on the street instead of a screen.

Of the eight MassRoam tours in Cambridge, this is the campus one. There is no start time to make — walk it in one go, or leave the rest for another afternoon.

MIT's landmark Great Dome above Killian Court.
MIT's landmark Great Dome above Killian Court. — Peacearth, CC BY-SA 4.0

What you get

Stops
6
each narrated, GPS-triggered along the route
Distance
2.0 mi
walking
Time
1h 28m
at your own pace
Access
MassRoam+
subscription, in the app

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