(NOTE: like any driving directions/map you should always do a reality check and make sure the roads still exist, watch out for construction, and follow all traffic safety precautions. This is only to be used as an aid in planning.)

Using the Hilton Dedham Place, Dedham MA directions where those directions place you on I-95 (SR 128 / Yankee Division Hwy) between Exits 23/24 and 14, begin the following directions.

Warning:  Most mapping programs do not know how to deal with Massachusetts "roundabouts" (circles).  If you are following a direction and you come upon a "roundabout", proceed as if it was just a multiple street intersection.  In other words, if your directions say to make a left, and you encounter a "roundabout", look at the "roundabout as if it were the face of a clock and you were entering it at 6 o'clock.  The street nearest 9 o'clock is likely the street you were to turn left onto.  Obviously taking the street nearest 12 o'clock is considered going straight and the street nearest 3 o'clock is a right.

Note that the Hilton Dedham Place is at Exit 14 of 128 / I-95. This is South of the following exits.

Athletic Facility Dexter School (Olympic Rink) and Thorndike Rink Dexter School (NHL Rink)
20 Newton Street
Brookline Ma. 02146
(617) 524-9377
(617) 522-5544

The rink with parking on top is a modern facility and you can park on top, walk down the stairs and get to either rink.  However, the lower rink is nothing more than a slab of ice and a place to play a game. The locker rooms are small but adequate but there are only two or three locker rooms, so during overlapping games, some team is relegated to locker room "A".  A wooden shed door on a "breezy" room that's not as good as the shed in your back yard, only holds about 5 people and doesn't have rubber mats on the floor. You're actually better getting dressed out in the rink. The boards are an unusual height, so be careful when you jump over. Watch your step when you walk. Many of the rubber floor tiles are missing, broken or have grit embedded in them.  Put your skates on at the last minute and make sure your skate blades don't touch the cement floor.  Better yet, don't take your blade guards off 'till you're on the ice.  The ice surface is poor and gritty.  You'll want to have your skates sharpened after skating on this ice.  Neither rink has concessions or a pro shop.

From Route 128 / I-95 Exit 15: ~7.7 miles, ~14 minutes

• At Exit 15A towards Dedham RT-1A (0.4 miles from the hotel)
• Bear Right onto Boston Providence Tpk. Go ~1.8 miles and then
• Continue onto Veterans of Foreign Wars Pky. Go ~3.7 miles and then
• Turn Left onto Independence Dr. (Its a "roundabout")  Go ~0.5 miles and then
• Continue onto Grove St. Go ~0.6 miles and then
• Continue onto Newton St. Go ~0.6 miles and then
• Stay on Newton St. (bearing right). Lars Anderson Park is on your left, school is on right.
• Take right onto St. Paul Ave. Go up hill, rink is on right.

RETURN.

• Head West on Newton St. Go ~0.6 miles and then
• Continue onto Grove St. Go ~0.6  miles and then
• Continue onto Independence Dr. Go ~0.4 miles and then
• Turn Right onto Veterans of Foreign Wars Pky. Go ~2.7 miles and then
• Follow Veterans of Foreign Wars Pky. as it Bears Right. Go ~1.0 miles and then
• Continue onto Boston Providence Tpk. Go ~1.7 miles and then
• Turn Right onto I 95 (South) (Yankee Division Hwy). Go ~0.7 miles and then
• Bear Right onto East St. at Exit 14. Go ~0.5 miles and then
• Bear Right onto Allied Dr. Go ~ 0.1 miles to 25 Allied Dr, Dedham, MA

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From Route 128 / I-95 Exit 20: (per www.crgh.com)

• Take Exit 20, Rte 9 East to Chestnut Hill Ave. & Lee St..
• Take right at lights onto Lee St. and follow to end , about 1 1/4 miles.
• Take left onto Newton St. Stay on Newton St. (bearing right), Lars Anderson Park is on left.
• About 1/4 mile, take right onto St. Paul Ave. (Dexter School driveway) Go up the hill, to the end, rink entrance is on right.

Dexter Academy
RT.95N to RT.128N to 9E. Go past Chestnut Hill Mall. When you see a Texaco on the left & a Citgo on the right, start to get into the right lane. At the next light, take a right onto Lee St. When Lee Becomes Clyde St. look for Newton St. Take a left onto Newton & a right onto St. Paul Ave. follow signs to Dexter Acadamy.

Last Updated 03/11/2004