neighborhood Soldiers Field Road is one link in a nearly nine-mile continuous roadway along the southern bank of the Charles River, continuing to the east as
Storrow Drive, David G. Mugar Way, and Embankment Road, and to the west as Nonantum Road. The road begins at the intersection with North Beacon Street and Nonantum Road. For the first there is no median division, and there is at-grade access to local businesses. The road then passes under the
Arsenal Street Bridge access roads. The road then passes south of the Northeastern University Boathouse and Charles River Community Garden, which it provides access to on the westbound side of the road. One half-mile east of the Arsenal Street Bridge there is a footbridge crossing over the road between Telford Street and the Artesani Playground, which is part of Christian Herter Park. There is access to and from the park at an at-grade intersection with Everett Street. As the road turns north it passes the
WBZ studio and Smith Playground before following the perimeter of the Soldiers Field athletic facility, home to Harvard Athletics. The closest portions of the facility to the road are the field hockey field, tennis courts and practice fields. At the top of the bend in the Charles River the road intersects with the
Eliot Bridge, which heads west from the northern end of the bend, providing access to Greenough Boulevard,
Mount Auburn Hospital and
Mount Auburn Cemetery in neighboring
Cambridge. As the road and the Charles bends southward, it passes Jordan Field (the soccer field), the Palmer Dixon Center, Dillon Field House,
Lavietes Pavilion and Blodgett Pool to the southwest and the Newell Boathouse to the northeast of the road. Soldiers Field Road then passes under North Harvard Street as it joins
Anderson Memorial Bridge. It continues eastward past the
Harvard Business School campus, where the river makes another bend at the
Weeks Footbridge. The road then passes under the approach to the
Western Avenue Bridge, where traffic passes one way from Cambridge into the Allston neighborhood. Just later, the road passes under the approach road between Cambridge Street and the
River Street Bridge, which returns traffic from Allston to Cambridge. To the south of this bridge the road passes to the north and east of rail yards before paralleling the
Massachusetts Turnpike from just east of the Allston tollbooths and past
Boston University until just west of the
Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. At this point the road and river split from the Mass Pike and pass under the
Boston University Bridge, at which point Soldiers Field Road becomes Storrow Drive. ==History==