Destinations · Massachusetts
Reading
MA · 42.5256, -71.0953
Battle Road Scenic Byway, Revolutionary Heritage Byway and Essex Coastal Scenic Byway are 3 of 6 signed byways within 30 miles of Reading, Massachusetts.
Get in
Interstate 93 and 95 runs along the border of Reading, you can take the exits off onto Route 129 or Route 28 to travel into town. Traffic on the highway does get quite heavy during rush hour.
The same roads run past Boston, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Reading are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Battle Road Scenic Byway · 8 mi · national
- Revolutionary Heritage Byway · 13 mi · national
- Essex Coastal Scenic Byway · 16 mi
- The Apple Way of Londonderry · 26 mi
- Coastal Byway · 28 mi
- Independence Byway · 28 mi
Lookouts
- Skywalk Observatory · 12 mi
- Eagle Rock · 21 mi
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 21 mi
Named places
- Hunt Memorial Park · 0 mi
- Memorial Park · 0 mi
- Town Common · 0 mi
- Elm Park · 1 mi
- Monterisi Property · 1 mi
- Quannapowitt Lakeshore · 1 mi
- Washington Park · 1 mi
- Stone Lot · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Wakefield · 2 mi
- Stoneham · 3 mi
- North Reading · 4 mi
- Wilmington · 4 mi
- Woburn · 4 mi
- Saugus · 6 mi