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Allston Directional

Allston Directional from directly overhead

Allston Directional is an artwork in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Single Tree Hill stands 100 m to the south-southwest, 2.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Lawton Park Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 2.6 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
2005
Material
metal
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.35229, -71.12606

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Museums
Historic sites
Parks
  • Freeman Square: 0.4 mi
  • Hooker Street Playground: 0.5 mi
  • Dwight Square: 0.5 mi
  • Coolidge Park: 0.5 mi
  • Judge Sumner Z. Kaplan Park: 0.5 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Corey Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Aspinwall Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Coolidge Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Mount Auburn: 1.5 mi
  • Dana Hill: 1.5 mi
Attractions
  • 34: 1.4 mi
  • 26: 1.4 mi
  • 45: 1.4 mi
  • 14: 1.4 mi
  • 6: 1.4 mi
Beaches
  • Crystal Lake Beach: 4.3 mi
  • Pleasure Bay Beach: 5.5 mi
  • Tenean Beach: 5.9 mi
  • Nickerson Beach: 6.7 mi
  • Borggaard Beach: 7.1 mi
Cliffs: 48
  • Lower Cliff: 3.1 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 3.1 mi
  • Temple Overhangs: 3.1 mi
  • Pusherman Wall: 3.2 mi
  • The Alcove: 3.2 mi
Picnic sites: 24
  • Pine Knoll: 3.7 mi
  • Oak Lea: 3.8 mi
  • Nature's Pavilion: 3.9 mi
  • Picnic Site 11: 6.9 mi
  • Picnic Site 12: 6.9 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Commissioners Landing: 2.7 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 9.5 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 23.9 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 23.9 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 25.0 mi
Springs: 3
  • Quarry Spring: 5.9 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 10.4 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 21.4 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Rock Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 21.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 5.6 miles of Allston Directional. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Single Tree HillSSW 214°100 m2.4 mi
Waban HillWSW 250°98 m2.6 mi
Bellevue HillS 190°94 m5.3 mi
Mount WalleyS 191°91 m3.1 mi
Wellington HillNW 316°91 m4.8 mi
Bald Pate HillSW 219°90 m4.2 mi
Green HillS 186°89 m3.4 mi
Chestnut HillSW 231°86 m2.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:0919:4320:26
September equinox06:3218:0718:44
December solstice07:1115:3016:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968747365534334
Precip in3.93.64.54.33.64.23.53.74.05.04.05.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/9622393308

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