Bikeway Community Garden
Bikeway Community Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Whipple Hill stands 110 m to the northwest, 4.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Free Range Sculpture Garden, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 1.6 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Somerville Conservation Commission
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 1.6 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 4.2 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 23.5 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 4 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 25 mi
- Eagle Rock · 26 mi
- Lookout Point · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Free Range Sculpture Garden: 0.0 mi
- Elfland: 0.1 mi
- George the Giraffe & Big Poppy: 0.4 mi
- Elly the Elephant: 0.4 mi
- Gift of the Wind: 0.5 mi
- Kenney Park: 0.1 mi
- Seven Hills Park: 0.3 mi
- Powder House Park: 0.3 mi
- Somerville Community Path: 0.3 mi
- Powderhouse Square: 0.4 mi
- Native Pollinator Garden: 0.3 mi
- Tufts Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Alex's Place: 0.7 mi
- Shawn Megan Memorial Garden: 0.9 mi
- Powder House Hill: 0.3 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.7 mi
- Clarendon Hill: 0.7 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.8 mi
- Walnut Hill: 0.8 mi
- Watson's Corner: 0.4 mi
- Shapiro Family Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Ghost bike - Bernard Lavins: 0.5 mi
- Stephen Edward Conley: 0.5 mi
- Cambridge Brick Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 0.8 mi
- Somerville Historical Museum: 1.0 mi
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1.2 mi
- Harvard Museum of Natural History: 1.2 mi
- Harvard Geological and Mineral Museum: 1.2 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.1 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.1 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.1 mi
- Mystic River Reservation: 1.3 mi
- Cooke's Hollow: 2.3 mi
- Harvard Square: 1.6 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 2.4 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 2.4 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 2.9 mi
- Longfellow Bridge Trophy Room: 3.1 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 4.2 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 6.4 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 6.6 mi
- Revere Beach: 6.9 mi
- Short Beach: 7.0 mi
- Crag 1: 3.6 mi
- Lookout Cliff: 5.3 mi
- Lunch Wall: 5.5 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 5.6 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 5.7 mi
- Pine Knoll: 6.4 mi
- Oak Lea: 6.5 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 6.6 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 6.8 mi
- Valley Shelter: 7.0 mi
- Boathouse: 12.5 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 12.5 mi
- Oil Shed: 12.6 mi
- Rainshed: 12.6 mi
- Boston Light: 12.6 mi
- Quarry Spring: 2.8 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 13.2 mi
- Mystery Spring: 19.6 mi
- Cascade Falls: 4.0 mi
- Rock Falls: 14.8 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.5 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 3.5 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 12.5 mi
- Haywardville: 4.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 4.8 miles of Bikeway Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple Hill | NW 314° | 110 m | 4.6 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NW 312° | 107 m | 3.7 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NW 326° | 105 m | 4.2 mi |
| Waban Hill | SW 216° | 98 m | 4.8 mi |
| Mount Gilboa | NW 304° | 95 m | 4.0 mi |
| Cairn Hill | NNE 26° | 92 m | 3.8 mi |
| Wellington Hill | W 277° | 91 m | 3.7 mi |
| Arlington Heights Hills | WNW 297° | 85 m | 4.0 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 | 20:26 |
| 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 | 30 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boston, 6 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee3,256 obs
- Western Honey Bee2,342 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee1,371 obs
- American Robin1,205 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle1,151 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,107 obs
- Wild Turkey1,018 obs
- Eastern Cottontail995 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/102468219
Day trips start here
- Cambridge · 1 mi
- Somerville · 1 mi
- Arlington · 2 mi
- Medford · 2 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 3 mi
- Boston/Charlestown · 3 mi
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