Highland

The first thing to know: this area revolves around a massive park. When you drive through on a clear day, you'll spot the 28-acre Highland Park right away—it's the kind of green space that actually gets used. Walking trails loop through in winter for cross-country skiing, sledding hills draw kids when snow falls, a splash pad runs in summer, and there's a regulation disc golf course if you're into that. The park's been here since eighteen seventy-three, and it shows: this is the neighborhood's actual center, not just a marketing line. Most homes date from the forties through sixties, older brick and wood construction on neat, mowed lots. You're bordered by Leonard Street and I-196 to the north and south, College and Fuller to the sides—roughly a square mile of dense residential calm.