Boston Street Map Poster

Few American street maps look like Boston’s. Where most US cities follow a neat grid, this printable city map reveals the tangle of colonial lanes that grew from cow paths and shoreline — the winding streets of the North End and Beacon Hill, the wandering route of the Freedom Trail, and Boston Common opening green at the city’s core. The orderly nineteenth-century grid of Back Bay, with its alphabetical cross streets from Arlington to Hereford, sits in striking contrast just to the west.

The Charles River curves along the top of the map, separating Boston from Cambridge, while the harbour and the looping streets of the South End fill out a layout no other city shares. That irregularity is exactly what makes a street map of Boston such a characterful poster, whether it hangs in a brownstone apartment or a college dorm.

This is wall art for anyone with roots in the city or a degree earned along the Charles. For a New England gallery wall, explore our other United States city maps or set it beside the New York map poster to contrast Boston’s organic lanes with Manhattan’s grid. Every Boston city map is a free, high-resolution, printable download.