The ends of each T line have MBTA garages:

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Counter-clockwise from upper right that’s Wonderland, Oak Grove, Alewife, Riverside, Forest Hills, and Braintree.

Forest Hills from the south ain’t bad, take the orange in and out

What direction are you coming from? Alewife, Riverside, and most of the Quincy RL stops have good parking

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If you don't mind a short ride on the T to get to it, There are stretches of Comm. Ave in Allston/Brighton that have free street parking. Just make sure to take note of the days where there's street sweeping.

Boston is a huge city. You could easily drive from one side to the other side in an hour. It could help us if you tell us where in Boston you want to park.

You can park for 7 bucks a day at a place that provides train, or for free at a park and ride

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A lot of people park at the T terminuses (Alewife and Oak Grove are two I’ve done myself) and with traffic a lot of the time it’s just as fast.

Park at Encore and take the shuttle into Chinatown

This is probably going to get downvoted but you are living somewhere that is different from what you are used to and you need to adjust your expectations and way of life, not the other way around. If you are from somewhere else in the US you are in a mindset of driving wherever you need to go, including in the urban core. That isn’t realistic here unless you have thousands of extra dollars to pay for parking. You need to make use of the transit system and the many parking garages it offers outside the urban core.

Free parking not really a thing any more. Park at a T station to save some money.

Get the ParkBoston app... its useful for shorter stays.

Riverside! It's at the end of the green line (D), parking is $6/day and it will cost you about $2.50 (or whatever the per-trip subway fare is these days) to get into the city. I parked there during the week a couple of months ago and the lot was almost empty, since many folks still are not commuting. You can renew via the parking app.

You absolutely do not need a car in Boston (especially if you are staying at the HI hostel downtown). It's extremely walkable/bikeable/transit-friendly. Just leave the car at Riverside.

Wonderland is also an option. At the end of the blue line which is way quicker than the green if your hostel is in downtown. Think it’s $6 a day too.

Might be kind of out of the way though, as it’s northeast of Boston.

Keep the car out of the city and walk/ride the T. If ur doing things outside the city get the wheels. South/N. Shore or cape would require the car.

Boston + Cambridge are the most walkable cities in the county.

DON’T bring it. You will regret it

I Park at Riverskde

Meter in Brookline

Museum of fine arts

I usually just park at the prudential center garage and walk the 20mins or so to the stadium. It’s only $25 if you scan your game ticket after you scan your parking ticket when you leave

Highly suggest not driving. It's more hassle than it's worth

The Children’s donation center is great! I do doubles there whenever I can and they keep me very well fed and comfy throughout the process (takes 45-60min vs the usual 15min for whole blood)

MGH also has a donation center that validates parking (though IMO, their space is nowhere near as nice as Children’s)

As an aside, I highly recommend doubles. You can donate every 16wks and still be at your max amount of donations. And since it’s an apheresis donation you don’t really lose all that much fluid - if anything I often feel better walking out than walking in. Plus you get to eat Tums like SweetTarts.

https://www.childrenshospital.org/ways-help/donate-blood

https://www.massgeneral.org/blood-donor

If you donate before February you can enter to win a whole month of free parking at children’s.

I’ll see y’all at work. 🫡

Do you mind dropping the link? I don’t need the parking but would love to assist

Thanks. I assumed I was ineligible because I was born and raised in England, but looks like that rule has been reviewed and I'm now able to donate. I wouldn't have known had I not read about this.

Whereas I was donating in England, moved to Germany for 7 years, and then recently moved here. So I’ve had a 7 year gap where I was ineligible.

The Red Cross New England Blood Center at Tufts Medical (right on the Orange Line) also offers free parking , snacks, and the occasional chatchki or gift card.

I'm a 107x donor, and also volunteer there.

Boston Red Cross Blood, Platelet and Plasma Donation Center. 274 Tremont Street. Boston, MA 02116. Phone: 1-800-RED CROSS.

Personally I'd take your bikes on the commuter rail with you rather then fight through the Boston traffic/need to try and find parking. It's easy to do so on the weekends.

Avoid the drive to Boston, instead bike from Salem down through Marblehead, to Nahant and circle around the island, its an awesome ride

Christian Herter Park, right on the Paul Dudley Bike Path: https://www.parkandpedal.org/

If you plan on stopping for lunch or equivalent, make sure you've got good locks. A cable lock has a good chance of ending in tears.

There is also a train.

Avery fully validates a garage parking for executive members (3 hours).

You can always try to find a parking meter for other locations though.

Chestnut Hill has free parking but I believe all the others you need to find a meter spot or have some degree of validation required. Pretty sure the garage that seaport validates has charging stations but not 100% positive.

You are so much better off driving to the closest t stop, parking there (it's like 4$ an hour) and taking the train in. That's probably the only feasible way. Brookline is famous for not allowing even their residents to park on streets for more than 2 hours or overnight

How "all day" are we talking? Is this like 9-5 or like 24/7. If it's 24/7 you're gonna need to rent or buy a parking spot (will cost thousands(not cheap)). If it's 9-5 you could probably park at a green line station like Beaconsfield or Chestnut Hill and commute by train & foot for the last mile. It's also not cheap but also not that expensive maybe like 20 bucks a day. You could also just gamble on overstaying on 2h street parking moving your car as much as you can like on lunch or something. Maybe you'll get a $50 ticket per week and that amounts to $10 day not bad

They won't ticket you. Even if they do. Which they rarely do. It's cheaper than parking in Boston

Some years ago the Globe reported that the most prolific city employee ticketing for parking violations preferred to work the streets with no meters and 2 hour parking. His tickets brought in $1mm+.

Park on a quiet side street you’ll probably be fine, the few times you get a ticket will be worth it. Just don’t park in the same spot each time.