Bessie Bames Garden
Bessie Bames Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Single Tree Hill stands 100 m to the west-southwest, 3.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Frederick Douglass Peace Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 0.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 5.9 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 25.7 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 1 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 22 mi
- Lookout Point · 26 mi
- Eagle Rock · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Frederick Douglass Peace Garden: 0.0 mi
- West Springfield Garden: 0.3 mi
- Harvest Hope: 0.4 mi
- Garden of Knowledge: 0.5 mi
- Rutland/Wash St Comm Garden: 0.5 mi
- Frederick Douglass: 0.1 mi
- 100 Years of Solitude: 0.2 mi
- Cy Young: 0.3 mi
- 999 Cranes: 0.3 mi
- Appeal to the Great Spirit: 0.5 mi
- Southwest Corridor Park: 0.1 mi
- Douglas Courtyard: 0.2 mi
- Carter Playground: 0.2 mi
- Ramsay Park: 0.2 mi
- Southwest Corridor Park: 0.3 mi
- Bernard M. Gordon Tribute To Engineering: 0.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Newlywed Home of Martin LutherKing Jr. and Coretta Scott King: 0.3 mi
- Boston Police Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Ghost bike - George Clemmer: 0.5 mi
- Dillaway-Thomas House: 0.5 mi
- MassArt Art Museum: 0.7 mi
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: 0.8 mi
- Warren Anatomical Museum: 1.0 mi
- First Corps of Cadets Museum: 1.0 mi
- The Mapparium: 0.6 mi
- Boston Marathon Finish Line: 1.0 mi
- 9: 1.1 mi
- 4: 1.1 mi
- 1: 1.1 mi
- Buena Vista Urban Wild: 0.9 mi
- 140 Highland St: 0.9 mi
- Parker Hilltop: 1.2 mi
- Back Of The Hill Urban Wild: 1.4 mi
- Hall's Pond Sanctuary: 1.5 mi
- Parker Hill: 1.2 mi
- Flagstaff Hill: 1.6 mi
- Beacon Hill: 1.9 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 2.0 mi
- Meeting House Hill: 2.3 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 3.2 mi
- Tenean Beach: 3.7 mi
- Nickerson Beach: 4.3 mi
- Orchard Beach: 4.8 mi
- Wollaston Beach: 5.3 mi
- Pererea Point: 4.5 mi
- Lower Cliff: 4.6 mi
- Upper Cliff: 4.6 mi
- The Alcove: 4.7 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 4.8 mi
- Pine Knoll: 2.1 mi
- Oak Lea: 2.2 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 2.3 mi
- Babcock Arboretum: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 9.3 mi
- Boathouse: 9.9 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 9.9 mi
- Oil Shed: 9.9 mi
- Rainshed: 9.9 mi
- Boston Light: 9.9 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 1.6 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 9.0 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 21.6 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 21.6 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 24.7 mi
- Quarry Spring: 7.0 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 8.9 mi
- Mystery Spring: 23.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 7.5 mi
- Rock Falls: 10.3 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 23.0 mi
- Haywardville: 8.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.0 miles of Bessie Bames Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Tree Hill | WSW 255° | 100 m | 3.6 mi |
| Waban Hill | W 273° | 98 m | 4.6 mi |
| Bellevue Hill | SW 216° | 94 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Walley | SW 235° | 91 m | 3.3 mi |
| Bald Pate Hill | WSW 245° | 90 m | 5.3 mi |
| Green Hill | SW 227° | 89 m | 3.4 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | W 264° | 86 m | 4.0 mi |
| Oak Hill | WSW 246° | 84 m | 5.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:32 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel2,020 obs
- Canada Goose1,757 obs
- Mallard1,429 obs
- House Sparrow1,189 obs
- Rock Pigeon1,070 obs
- Eastern Cottontail978 obs
- American Robin897 obs
- European Starling506 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/29859160
Day trips start here
- Boston/Back Bay-Beacon Hill · 1 mi
- Boston/Fenway-Kenmore · 1 mi
- Boston/Roxbury · 1 mi
- Boston/South End · 1 mi
- Boston · 2 mi
- Boston/Dorchester · 2 mi
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