Don't Get Storrowed
Pick your moving truck to see if it can use Boston's car-only riverside parkways — and the truck-legal way around if it can't.
Every year, moving trucks too tall for Boston's riverside parkways get their roofs sheared off by a low bridge — locals call it getting Storrowed, and it peaks on the September 1 moving day. Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive are for cars only. Pick your rental truck to see whether it can go, and the truck-legal way around if it can't.
5 ft 8 in · A typical passenger car or SUV
Your vehicle: 5 ft 8 in tall
A car is fine on the parkways.
A passenger car is allowed. Trucks, vans and buses are not — this is the one time being small helps.