Lexington Center

News:

Center Streetscape Project has begun. Please click here to learn more about the project.

Here is a summary of the recommendations from the recently completed Center Parking Study:

• Treat parking as a system: Coordinated Revenue Management (reveal, share, and maybe consolidate off-street and on-street revenues) 
• Create availability where it's needed most: Performance-Based Pricing (higher hourly price on Mass Ave & Waltham, lower in Waltham & library lots, lowest in attended and Town Hall lots)
• Welcome rather than penalize customers: Lengthened Time-Limits (minimum of 4 hours on-street, 8 hours or no limit off-street)
• Make it easier to find parking: Improved Signing, Way-finding and Information Program (additional historical signs at key locations directing to lots, new signs for walking from lots, wider dissemination of parking map on websites)
• Breaking down barriers to increase supply: Establishment of Shared Parking Fund (dedication of parking revenue and possible in-lieu fees to municipal leases of private lots, enabling removal of fences and increase in overall supply)
• Improve access and walk time to remote spaces: Longer-Term Walking Improvements (re-arrange CVS and Waltham lots for circulation and safety, improve access to consolidated private lots, consider bike path re-alignment or better crossings interfaces, add Mass Ave. crossing islands & visual narrowing)

The Town will be reviewing these recommendations and expect to move forward with a parking management program.

Parking In Lexington Center 

The attended lot is $0.25/hr, $2.00/day ($0.75 after 5pm) or Permit ($250/yr). Waltham St/ Muzzy St parking lot and all street metered spaces are $0.25/hour with a two hour limit, and are FREE after 8pm. The Parking lot that is designated for 'Evenings & Weekends' is permitted parking ($225/yr) during weekdays but is FREE after 5pm and on weekends.   Things to See & Do

Shopping & Dining

Check out Lex Is More, a website created to enhance local shopping in Lexington, but also provides a great guide for all your shopping and dining. The Center features: 30+ retail shops 15 restaurants 8 Hair Salons & much more!

Check out Lexington's historical sites and museums:

Lexington Battle Green Lexington Minuteman Statue Revolutionary Monument The Old Burying Ground Historical Houses - managed by Lex. Historical Society The Old Belfry Lexington Visitors Center U.S.S. Lexington Memorial The Old Depot National Heritage Museum Minuteman National Park The Lexington Minute Men Company

Tour Lexington

• Liberty Ride
• Battle Green Guides

Visitors Center The Lexington Visitors Center is a great place to start your visit in Lexington. The Visitors Center is open April through November from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday, and December through March, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 362 days a year, Monday through Sunday. The Visitors Center is located in Lexington Center across from the Battle Green at 1875 Massachusetts Avenue. Phone: 781-862-1450. 

Directions

From 95 take exit 30a, then take a Left onto Waltham Street. Once Waltham Street ends at Mass Ave, you have arrived in the Center.

From Rt. 2 take exit 54a and follow the exit onto Waltham Street Lexington. Once Waltham Street ends at Mass Ave, you have arrived in the Center.

From Logan International Airport take 93N, then take exit 30a, then take a Left onto Waltham Street. Once Waltham Street ends at Mass Ave, you have arrived in the Center.

Getting Around Lexington

Lexington is connected to 95/128, Rt. 2, 4/225, & 2A. Lexington is only 5 minutes from Hanscom Air Force Base, 10 minutes from Cambridge, 15 minutes from Boston, and 30 minutes from Logan International Airport. Lexington Center is accessible by Car, Lex-press, MBTA 62 and 76 lines, or the Minuteman Bikeway. Lexington is served by the LexPress which travels within Lexington, while the MBTA lines 62 and 76 connect to the red line train at Alewife Brook Parkway provides service to the MBTA red line subwayconnecting to Boston.