Fog Forest Ambience

The walks.

113 so far — Boston and Beacon Hill, Salem and Plymouth, Cambridge, and the towns between. Filter by place, season, or weather. Each one plays on YouTube.

Place
Season
Weather
Length
New York City at night in clear weather: stacked lit office windows across dark towers under a black sky.
New York — the skyline, not performing for anyone
New York · Winter · 2 hr 0 min
A New England town at night in a snowstorm: a lit Christmas tree with a colored star topper beside the snowy main street
A New England town — snow and streetlights, after dark
New England · Winter · 57 min
Cambridge at midnight in autumn: a lamplit iron gate between stone pillars, white hydrangeas still blooming beside it.
Cambridge, Massachusetts — lamplight through the iron gates
Cambridge · Autumn · 33 min
Salem, Massachusetts at 2 AM in autumn night: a lantern streetlamp glowing over fallen leaves at a one-way corner
Salem, Massachusetts — a quiet walk at 2 AM
Salem · Autumn · 1 hr 4 min
Plymouth Grist Mill at night on Halloween: a floodlit waterfall churning beside the wooden waterwheel, pumpkins set along wet stone steps.
The Plymouth Grist Mill — Halloween night at the waterfall
Plymouth · Autumn · 3 hr 1 min
Manhattan at night from an open window: the Empire State Building lit white over a skyline of scattered lit windows.
Manhattan — a low hum from one window up
New York · Spring · 1 hr 55 min
Boston Seaport at midnight in freezing cold: patches of snow on a boardwalk beneath a lit cantilevered building
The Seaport, Boston — boardwalks at freezing midnight
Boston Seaport · Winter · 43 min
Beacon Hill, Boston at midnight in winter: a lit gas lamp beside the Beacon Street sign, purple lights strung through bare trees.
Beacon Hill, Boston — midnight, and the trash is already out
Beacon Hill · Winter · 29 min
Beacon Hill at midnight in winter snow: a lantern hung with holiday greenery above a footprinted snowy alleyway.
Beacon Hill, Boston — lanterns glowing against the snow
Beacon Hill · Winter · 49 min
Salem at 2 AM in the dark: a lantern-style lamppost lit above a brick sidewalk scattered with fallen leaves
Salem, Massachusetts — days before Halloween, the alleys empty
Salem · Autumn · 46 min
Beacon Hill, Boston at daytime in spring rain: a gas lamp beside a black door numbered 10 on a wet brick lane.
Beacon Hill, Boston — street names in the rain
Beacon Hill · Spring · 43 min
Sigriswil, Switzerland at daytime in clear weather: village rooftops on a green slope above a blue lake, with peaks behind
Sigriswil, Switzerland — across the ravine on the panoramic bridge
Sigriswil · Summer · 19 min
Interlaken at sunrise in clear early light: a stone bridge with flower boxes above emerald river water, shuttered facades catching the sun.
Interlaken, Switzerland — sunrise between two lakes
Interlaken · Summer · 29 min
Zermatt on a rainy day: dark timber chalets with pink flower boxes above a wet lane, cloud low on the mountains.
Zermatt, Switzerland — more wet lane than mountain view
Zermatt · Summer · 35 min
Gornergrat summit at daytime under storm clouds: a wooden hut on the rocky ridge above the Gorner Glacier
The Gornergrat ridge, Zermatt — a storm closing on the summit
Zermatt · Summer · 30 min
Zermatt, Switzerland on a summer day: village chalets in the valley below the Matterhorn, its peak wrapped in cloud.
Zermatt, Switzerland — the Gornergrat railway, station by station
Zermatt · Summer · 37 min
A New England town at night in snow: a black street clock capped with snow beside a snowbanked sidewalk.
A New England town — a snow plow working through Main Street
New England · Winter · 1 hr 9 min
A New England town at evening in fresh snow: a lit wreath on a stone church tower above snow-covered parked cars
A New England town — an umbrella held up in the last of the snow
New England · Winter · 45 min
Harvard Yard, Cambridge in daytime rain: a wet path crossing the lawn toward a brick entryway with a lit doorway.
Harvard Yard, Cambridge — the pace slows to match the weather
Cambridge · Summer · 45 min
Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston at midnight in rain: bare trees wrapped in white lights above a puddled path
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston — holiday lights, nobody to see them
Boston · Winter · 1 hr 1 min
Harvard University, Cambridge at evening in rain: brick gate arches with lit lanterns, a white steeple rising behind wet trees.
Harvard, Cambridge — red brick darker, summer green wetter
Cambridge · Summer · 41 min
Plymouth on an autumn day in rain: an empty bench beside a leaf-covered path along the brook, foliage at peak.
Plymouth, Massachusetts — peak foliage, and rain to walk it in
Plymouth · Autumn · 1 hr 1 min
Beacon Hill at daytime in autumn: red and orange ivy covering a brick rowhouse beside a gas lamp
Beacon Hill, Boston — leaves down on the cobblestones
Beacon Hill · Autumn · 45 min
Beacon Hill, Boston by day in late fall: yellow leaves blanketing a narrow street and the roofs of parked cars.
Beacon Hill, Boston — the week after peak color
Beacon Hill · Autumn · 43 min
A New England trail at daytime in rain: the path buried in orange fallen leaves between thin dark trunks.
A New England trail — rain landing on the leaves, not the branches
New England · Autumn · 1 hr 7 min
Venice at daytime in sunlight: motorboats moored on green canal water beneath a small stone footbridge
Venice, Italy — the canals on foot, not by gondola
Venice · Summer · 25 min
Zermatt, Switzerland at sunset in summer: stone-shingled chalet roofs above the village, the Matterhorn half-veiled in orange cloud.
Zermatt, Switzerland — lightning out in the range at sunset
Zermatt · Summer · 31 min
Zermatt at daytime in rain: the Matterhorn above chalet balconies and a wet lane along a wooden rail fence
Zermatt, Switzerland — rain in the village, the Matterhorn above it
Zermatt · Summer · 31 min
Arnold Arboretum, Boston by day in rain and fog: a wet boardwalk running through tall grass and rust-orange shrubs toward misted pines.
The Arnold Arboretum, Boston — fog sorting the trees into near and far
Boston · Spring · 1 hr 14 min
Beacon Hill on a summer afternoon in heavy rain: wet cobblestones between brick rowhouses, ivy and flower boxes on the walls.
Beacon Hill, Boston — heavy rain on Acorn Street
Beacon Hill · Summer · 1 hr 13 min
Harvard Yard at dusk in rain: figures with umbrellas passing the brick gate above wet red pavement
Harvard Yard, Cambridge — the lamps coming on at dusk
Cambridge · Summer · 1 hr 0 min
Downtown Boston by day after a rainstorm: the Old State House's brick gable and white tower ringed by office towers.
Boston — the Old State House, after the rainstorm
Boston · Spring · 44 min
Beacon Hill at dusk in heavy rain: lit gas lamps above a wet street of brick row houses.
Beacon Hill, Boston — just enough light left to read the brick
Beacon Hill · Spring · 1 hr 10 min
Cambridge at daytime in rain: a yellow clapboard house with white porch railings seen through an open white wooden gate
Cambridge, Massachusetts — houses built to be looked at slowly
Cambridge · Autumn · 1 hr 8 min
Zakim Bridge, Boston at late night after rain: the bridge's cables lit in white and blue beyond a tree wrapped in string lights.
The Zakim Bridge, Boston — the skyline from underneath
Boston · Summer · 1 hr 9 min
Beacon Hill, Boston at dusk after rain: gas lamps lit above wet cobblestones on Acorn Street
Beacon Hill, Boston — the hour the street lamps come on
Beacon Hill · Spring · 1 hr 0 min
Philadelphia at night in rain: a tower banded in green light above a wet riverside path, a walk signal glowing beside the trees.
Philadelphia — Rittenhouse Square to the train station, in rain
Philadelphia · Spring · 47 min
Boston in daytime rain: a stone clock tower rising above bare trees and a wet, nearly empty brick plaza.
Boston — three neighborhoods, one rain
Boston · Spring · 48 min
Arnold Arboretum at daytime in rain: flowering shrubs in pink and white crowding a wet paved path
The Arnold Arboretum, Boston — the first trees opening in rain
Boston · Spring · 1 hr 3 min
Philadelphia at evening in rain: red-brick rowhouses and a flowering dogwood along a wet brick sidewalk with an iron fence.
Philadelphia — Delancey Place on a wet evening
Philadelphia · Spring · 1 hr 0 min
Atkinson Street, Boston at daytime in overcast light: tents and carts lining both sides of the street.
Boston — the South End to Melnea Cass Boulevard
Boston · Spring · 1 hr 12 min
Mount Auburn Cemetery at daytime in rain: a granite tomb set into a planted hillside beside a black lane sign
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge — autumn rain on the lanes
Cambridge · Autumn · 46 min
Boston's Financial District in daylight after heavy rain: a lit lamppost over a wet brick sidewalk, glass towers rising behind.
Boston Financial District — everything wet, everyone resuming
Boston · Spring · 50 min
Midtown Manhattan at late night from a high open window: lit office towers and yellow cabs on the avenue below
Midtown Manhattan — an open window over Sixth Avenue
New York · Winter · 1 hr 36 min
Harvard neighborhood, Cambridge on a gray day in rain: stone steps and a balustrade rising to a brick apartment archway with one lit doorway.
Cambridge, Massachusetts — Harvard met from the side
Cambridge · Autumn · 51 min
New York's Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: graffiti-tagged shutters glowing under a yellow storefront sign, a stop sign down the block.
Chinatown, New York — 2 AM, wet pavement holding the lights
New York · Winter · 1 hr 1 min
A New England pond at daytime in snow: dried cattails standing in drifts at the edge of frozen water
A path gone completely white — the crunch, and the hush over it
New England · Winter · 1 hr 20 min
Cambridge, Massachusetts on a rainy day: a yellow Victorian house with a corner turret above a wet red-brick street.
Cambridge, Massachusetts — rain on the red brick sidewalks
Cambridge · Autumn · 36 min
An old industrial park at late night in falling snow: a single line of footprints down an unplowed brick alley.
An old industrial park — snow on the umbrella, lighter than rain
New England · Winter · 38 min
A town at night in a snowstorm: a parked car buried in fresh snow beside a lit shop sign
A town in a snowstorm — the whole neighborhood indoors but you
New England · Winter · 50 min
Copley Square, Boston at night in rain: streetlight and tower light reflecting in long streaks across the wet plaza by the library.
Back Bay, Boston — the alley that opens into the Garden
Boston · Winter · 43 min
Harvard Square, Cambridge at night in rain: open iron gates and rain-slick brick lit by storefront windows
Harvard, Cambridge — midnight rain, then the bridge to Boston
Cambridge · Winter · 1 hr 6 min
Harvard Yard, Cambridge at night in rain: a lit cupola lantern above wrought-iron gates hung between brick piers.
Harvard, Cambridge — the Square, then the Yard, in a storm
Cambridge · Winter · 1 hr 3 min
Downtown Boston at night in rain: a lit market sign in Chinese characters above graffiti-covered shutters in a narrow street.
Boston — after dark, when the light has more to do
Boston · Winter · 49 min
A New England beach on a winter morning at low tide: a wooden rail fence along the path above exposed tidal flats
A New England shore — walking out past the ends of the docks
New England · Winter · 37 min
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston at night in rain: the Samuel Eliot Morison statue seated under trees strung with white lights.
Boston — Fenway to the Common, under the green lights
Boston · Winter · 1 hr 4 min
An old New England factory town at late night in lamplight: a blue-lit clock tower above brick mills and curving rail tracks.
An old factory town — the mills after dark
New England · Winter · 43 min
Playa del Carmen at sunrise in overcast light: a wooden lifeguard tower with a thatched roof above rows of empty beach loungers
Playa del Carmen, Mexico — 6 AM, the loungers still empty
Playa del Carmen · Autumn · 18 min
A Riviera Maya resort, Mexico at sunrise in morning light: thatched-roof cabanas standing in a shallow reflecting pool among palms.
The Riviera Maya, Mexico — garden paths at sunrise
Playa del Carmen · Autumn · 20 min
A New England lighthouse at daytime in clear weather: a white tower rising behind a split-rail fence at the end of a dirt path
A New England peninsula — a bike ride out to the lighthouse
New England · Summer · 27 min
A garden outside Boston at the end of summer in heavy rain: rain stippling a stone fountain's pool in front of a brick manor house.
A garden at the end of summer — a storm walked through it
New England · Summer · 49 min
A restaurant corner at night in heavy rain: strings of lights along dark windows above parked cars on a wet street.
Outside a lit restaurant — more drum than shelter
New England · Spring · 1 hr 5 min
Auburn Cemetery at evening before a rainstorm: headstones on a sloped lawn below a lit glass building
Auburn Cemetery, near Boston — the last still hour before the storm
Boston · Summer · 1 hr 1 min
A New England cranberry bog on a summer afternoon in rain: lily pads crowding dark water around a floating blue barrel.
A cranberry bog — a storm, and the rainbow that didn't come
New England · Summer · 51 min
New England mountains at daylight in snow: snow-dusted railroad tracks branching below white-capped evergreens.
A New England mountain — rivers running under the snow
New England · Winter · 54 min
Downtown Boston at morning in rain: a stone clock tower rising over a rain-slicked, nearly empty plaza
Downtown Boston — a working city, already soaked by morning
Boston · Spring · 37 min
A yard at dusk in a summer thunderstorm: trees gone to silhouette under a rain-grey sky, the umbrella's edge overhead.
A yard before sunset — then the tree frogs took their cue
New England · Summer · 46 min
Downtown Boston at morning in rain: the Old State House tower rising behind two buses crossing a wet intersection
Boston — Washington Street to the trains, still raining
Boston · Spring · 35 min
Boston Seaport at midnight in rain: strings of globe lights over an empty plaza, pink storefront glow pooling in the puddles.
The Seaport, Boston — midnight without the dark
Boston Seaport · Winter · 39 min
Boston Chinatown at 2 a.m. in rain: the gate arch strung with lights above wet pavement and banks of old snow.
Boston — the Seaport Bridge to Chinatown at 2 AM
Boston · Winter · 32 min
A New England river trail at morning in heavy rain: puddles standing on a dirt path between wet trees
A river trail — rain that had been going all night
New England · Summer · 38 min
A New England mill town at early morning in heavy rain: a wet rail-trail beside a long mural of painted hands and fish.
An old mill town — the rail line carrying foot traffic now
New England · Spring · 24 min
A New England mill town at early morning in heavy rain: a wet rail-trail path running between soaked trees and parked cars.
A mill town rail trail — an early morning downpour
New England · Spring · 20 min
A New England mill town at afternoon after rain: a wet steel truss footbridge leading toward brick mill buildings with a clock tower
An old mill town — the steel bridge, everything still dripping
New England · Spring · 48 min
The Charles River Esplanade, Boston at morning in spring bloom: a Canada goose standing on the bank beneath a flowering cherry tree.
The Esplanade, Boston — the cherry trees deciding it is spring
Boston · Spring · 52 min
Cambridge at midnight in rain: a graffiti-covered alley with wet painted brick shining under lamplight
Cambridge, Massachusetts — a midnight walk that ends at the water
Cambridge · Spring · 52 min
Boston Common at afternoon after rain: a white church steeple above wet asphalt paths and the Common's granite subway kiosks.
Boston Common — the trees still dripping on their own schedule
Boston · Spring · 38 min
A New England grist mill in the evening after rain: a red water wheel on a fieldstone wall beside a narrow falls.
A New England grist mill — an evening after rain
Plymouth · Spring · 1 hr 10 min
A New England mill town at night in heavy rain: lit wall lamps catching rain streaks over a wet alley
An old mill town — heavy rain, and thunder that stays distant
New England · Spring · 49 min
Plymouth, Massachusetts at morning in rain: a wet path past weathered wooden buildings, with ship masts and the bay beyond.
Plymouth, Massachusetts — the Rock and the ship, standing quieter
Plymouth · Autumn · 1 hr 0 min
Boston Seaport at night in fog: a multicolored geometric deer sculpture standing over a wet crosswalk.
The Seaport, Boston — every streetlight a small local event
Boston Seaport · Winter · 39 min
Harvard University at morning in rain: a black wrought-iron gate between stone piers, a brick clock tower behind bare branches
Harvard Square, Cambridge — rain that doesn't take sides
Cambridge · Autumn · 1 hr 13 min
The Charles River Esplanade, Boston at morning in spring bloom: a white cherry tree leaning over the river against the skyline.
The Esplanade, Boston — a morning given to falling petals
Boston · Spring · 1 hr 34 min
Beacon Hill, Boston at afternoon after rain: a narrow brick-paved lane between rowhouses, still dark with wet
Beacon Hill, Boston — the neighborhood filling back in
Boston · Spring · 1 hr 12 min
Charles River Esplanade, Boston at dusk in spring: white cherry blossoms leaning over dark lagoon water, lit brownstones on the far bank.
The Esplanade, Boston — blossoms holding the last light
Boston · Spring · 42 min
Beacon Hill in daytime rain: a lit gas lamp over wet cobblestones, seen from under the edge of a black umbrella.
Beacon Hill, Boston — drizzle and lamplight in the alleys
Beacon Hill · Spring · 1 hr 1 min
Cambridge at morning in rain: a red Harvard shuttle bus passing a rain-darkened brick walkway
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge — one long street in the rain
Cambridge · Spring · 1 hr 8 min
The Boston Garden at morning in rain: wrought-iron gates open onto a wet path toward the equestrian statue, fog behind.
Boston Public Garden — early in the season, under one umbrella
Boston · Spring · 27 min
Charles River Esplanade at early morning in fog: a row of brick townhouses reflected in the flat gray river.
The Esplanade, Boston — walking out before the rain started
Boston · Spring · 39 min
Kendall Square at midnight in rain: a lit red subway station sign above a wet, reflective sidewalk
Kendall Square, Cambridge — a square mile with its titles off
Cambridge · Winter · 55 min
Avon Hill, Cambridge at evening in autumn rain: a yellow mansard-roofed house with a cupola behind wet trees and a gravel drive.
Cambridge, Massachusetts — Avon Hill to Harvard, as the light went
Cambridge · Autumn · 56 min
Newbury Street, Boston at early morning in fog: a stone church tower rising over bare trees into a gray sky
Newbury Street, Boston — the length of it, before the fog lifted
Boston · Spring · 36 min
Zakim Bridge, Boston at 2 a.m. in rain: white cable stays lit against the dark, a glowing handrail strip along the wet footpath beneath.
Under the Zakim Bridge, Boston — 2 AM, and nobody else out
Boston · Winter · 37 min
Boston Public Garden in the afternoon after rain: fallen leaves on a wet path curving toward the lagoon footbridge.
Boston Public Garden — the drip off the branches after rain
Boston · Autumn · 32 min
Plymouth at sunset after rain: a wooden boardwalk running past an old brick building toward Plymouth Bay
The Seaside Rail Trail, Plymouth — sunset after the storm
Plymouth · Autumn · 34 min
A New England mill town at evening in freezing rain: fresh footprints in a snow-dusted alley between brick mill walls.
An old mill town — freezing rain turning over to snow
New England · Winter · 40 min
Cambridge Harborwalk at midnight in heavy rain: rain streaking past a streetlamp over a wet railed walkway.
The Harborwalk, Cambridge — trains crossing, the skyline half gone
Cambridge · Winter · 22 min
Cutler Park at afternoon in rain: a gravel path curving between autumn-colored trees at the river's edge
Cutler Park, outside Boston — rain on the umbrella, river alongside
Boston · Autumn · 53 min
Longfellow Bridge, Boston at night in rain: twin lamps glowing over a wet sidewalk, signal lights streaking the roadway.
The Longfellow Bridge — trains passing through the rain
Boston · Winter · 24 min
A New England forest at morning in rain: hemlock roots crossing a needle-strewn bluff above river rapids
River falls in the woods — rain in the canopy, then on the ground
New England · Autumn · 47 min
Harvard Square, Cambridge at morning in light rain: a curved brick path to a bay-windowed brick hall, wet leaves scattered across the lawn.
Harvard Square, Cambridge — rain light enough to walk bare-headed
Cambridge · Autumn · 19 min
An East Coast beach at morning in rain: a wooden staircase over granite boulders, a folded beach chair tipped at its foot.
An East Coast beach — rain from above, waves from the side
New England · Winter · 39 min
Boston Seaport at night in fog: a lamppost lighting brick pavers along the empty harborwalk
The Seaport, Boston — a district with its far edges gone
Boston Seaport · Winter · 27 min
An abandoned New England farm at morning in autumn rain: a half-flooded wooden boardwalk on the path through bare trees.
An abandoned dairy farm — rain close, the ocean somewhere past it
New England · Autumn · 45 min
Boston Chinatown at night in fog: strings of red and orange paper lanterns crossing beneath a lit office tower.
Chinatown, Boston — towers gone to suggestions in the fog
Boston · Autumn · 40 min
Plymouth at morning in rain: pumpkins floating in the brook below the mill's wooden waterwheel
Plymouth, Massachusetts — the grist mill down to Brewster Gardens
Plymouth · Winter · 21 min
A New England forest trail at morning in winter rain: a fallen log beside a path buried in copper-brown leaves.
A forest pond — winter rain, nothing to look up afterward
New England · Winter · 32 min
Beacon Hill, Boston at morning in winter rain: a gas lamp trimmed with a red holiday bow above a wet cobblestone lane between brick rowhouses
Beacon Hill, Boston — steady rain, one winter morning
Boston · Winter · 34 min
New England beach at morning in rain: a timber footbridge on green-painted pilings over rain-wet tidal sand and windrows of seaweed.
A beach outside Boston — rain and surf, never quite agreeing
New England · Winter · 27 min
A stone fireplace at night in winter: stockings and lit candles on the mantel beside a Christmas tree strung with lights.
A fire and a lit tree — the room holds still
New England · Winter · 30 min
Downtown Boston at night after rain: bare trees wrapped in strings of white lights over a dark walkway
Boston — the blue archway and the carousel, after the storm
Boston · Autumn · 1 hr 7 min
Boston at night in winter rain: trees strung with green Christmas lights over a wet brick sidewalk.
Boston — a dinosaur among the Faneuil Hall lights
Boston · Winter · 1 hr 14 min
Harvard Square at morning in rain: umbrellas passing through open iron gates in a red-brick wall.
Harvard Square, Cambridge — a famous place, off-hours
Cambridge · Autumn · 1 hr 3 min

The Quiet List

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