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Ayer Community Garden

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Ayer Community Garden from directly overhead

Ayer Community Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 70 m. North Peak stands 192 m to the south-southwest, 6.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Balchs Pond, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.55127, -71.57605

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Albert J. Pirone Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Depot Square Park: 0.9 mi
  • Harvard Park: 1.5 mi
  • Barber Land: 1.6 mi
  • Mirror Lake: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
  • S/SGT Leon A. Cote: 0.8 mi
  • cellar hole: 1.0 mi
  • windmill site: 1.4 mi
  • Tannery site: 1.4 mi
  • The great barn ruins: 1.4 mi
Peaks
Artworks
Gardens
  • Native Herb Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Katie's Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Colonial Herb Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Flerra Meadows Community Garden Boxborough: 5.2 mi
  • Yapp Conservation Land Community Garden: 6.2 mi
Museums
Attractions
Beaches: 31
  • Harvard Town Beach: 4.0 mi
  • Thurston's Beach: 4.8 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 7.1 mi
  • Wilder Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Lunenburg Town Beach: 8.6 mi
Picnic sites: 19
Cliffs: 9
Waterfalls: 9
  • Cascades: 11.4 mi
  • Trap Falls: 13.2 mi
  • Emerson Falls: 13.5 mi
  • The Falls: 13.6 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 15.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
Springs: 2
  • Mystery Spring: 8.6 mi
  • The Ashburnham Spring: 18.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.0 miles of Ayer Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
North PeakSSW 198°192 m6.6 mi
Oak HillSSE 151°187 m2.8 mi
Oak HillSSE 165°187 m3.4 mi
Prospect HillSSW 207°171 m3.7 mi
Flat HillWNW 295°161 m5.9 mi
Hunting HillNW 309°158 m5.9 mi
Vaughn HillsSSW 199°158 m6.8 mi
Dean's HillSSW 200°157 m3.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2118:59
June solstice05:1019:4520:28
September equinox06:3418:0818:46
December solstice07:1415:3116:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252735475867727163514031
Precip in2.62.83.83.83.64.13.53.44.04.53.63.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fitchburg Muni AP, 9 mi away.

  • bear oak304 obs
  • goat's rue46 obs
  • American pokeweed22 obs
  • Common Garter Snake20 obs
  • pink lady's slipper20 obs
  • alder buckthorn19 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum18 obs
  • Painted Turtle17 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1430898041

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