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Community Gardens

Community Gardens from directly overhead

Community Gardens is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 29 m. Burrill Hill stands 87 m to the south, 5.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Training Field, a park 0.2 miles away. Essex Coastal Scenic Byway passes 9.3 miles off.

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What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.57021, -70.96579

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Training Field: 0.2 mi
  • Stone Street Playground: 0.7 mi
  • Tapley Park: 1.1 mi
  • Danvers Square: 1.6 mi
  • Lawrence Street Playground: 1.7 mi
Peaks
  • Whipple Hill: 0.3 mi
  • Dales Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Nichols Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Lindall Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Putnam Hill: 1.6 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Museums
Attractions
  • Connors Farm: 3.1 mi
  • Salem Cat Museum: 4.4 mi
  • BlackCraft Haunt: 4.9 mi
  • Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery: 4.9 mi
  • Bell: 5.0 mi
Beaches
Gardens
  • Trinity Church Memorial Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Ropes Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Salem Community Gardens: 5.5 mi
  • Pickman Park Community Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Davis Hayfield Pollinator Garden: 6.7 mi
Artworks
Cliffs: 49
Picnic sites: 23
  • Pinetops Picnic Area: 6.4 mi
  • Picnic Table: 14.0 mi
  • Picnic Area: 17.0 mi
  • Picnic Site 1: 18.9 mi
  • Picnic Site 2: 19.3 mi
Lighthouses: 20
Rest areas: 7
  • Commissioners Landing: 15.6 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (North Bound): 16.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 17.7 mi
  • Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 18.2 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 21.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cascade Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Newbury Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 17.4 mi
  • Hampton Falls: 24.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Quarry Spring: 11.7 mi
  • Rail Spring: 14.0 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 19.6 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 22.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.8 miles of Community Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burrill HillS 190°87 m5.6 mi
Mount GileadSSW 194°77 m5.7 mi
Mount HermonS 187°76 m5.1 mi
Wills HillWNW 302°75 m3.5 mi
Great HillNNE 13°75 m5.5 mi
Bald HillNNW 335°74 m5.2 mi
Mount MoriahSSW 195°74 m6.2 mi
Waldens HillSW 232°70 m3.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0719:4320:26
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:1115:2816:14

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283037475766727163524334
Precip in3.22.94.24.33.43.83.53.33.64.54.04.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beverly Muni AP, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Canada Goose24 obs
  • American pokeweed24 obs
  • Common Snapping Turtle19 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee19 obs
  • eastern white pine18 obs
  • garlic mustard17 obs
  • Wild Turkey16 obs
  • eastern redcedar15 obs

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29693850

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