It runs along the southern boundary of a portion of the Neponset River Reservation and serves as a connection between the Neponset Valley Parkway and the Blue Hills Parkway.

[2] The parkway was built in 1931 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The parkway, a four-lane road, with two lanes in each direction, with a grassy center median strip, then winds southward, roughly following the contours of the Neponset River on the southern edge of the Neponset River Reservation.

It has a major junction with Beacon Street and Fairmount Avenue, the latter of which crosses the river into Boston.

It then passes through a section with houses lining both sides, until Dana Avenue, at which point a railroad right-of-way to its north separates it from the river.