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Martha Jones Butterfly Garden

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Martha Jones Butterfly Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 55 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the east, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Martha Jones Conservation Land, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 1.7 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes
Fee
No

How to reach it

Coordinates42.20009, -71.23465

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Buckmaster Pond: 0.6 mi
  • Buckmaster Pond Park: 0.6 mi
  • Pheasant Hill Park: 0.9 mi
  • Richard B Murphy Square: 1.2 mi
  • Shattuck Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Beaches
  • South Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Powissett Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Shapiro Beach: 2.4 mi
  • North Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Turner Pond Beach: 3.7 mi
Museums
  • Morse House: 2.3 mi
  • Peak House Museum: 3.3 mi
  • Lowell Mason Museum and Music Center: 3.6 mi
  • Kingsbury Grist Mill: 3.7 mi
  • Medfield Historical Society Museum: 3.7 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Foundation & Chimney: 4.3 mi
  • 2: 4.9 mi
  • 1: 4.9 mi
  • Martini Junction: 4.9 mi
  • 13: 5.3 mi
Gardens
  • Formal Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Kitchen Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Trial Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Shade Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Weezie's Garden for Children: 6.3 mi
Cliffs: 51
  • Breakneck Ledge: 6.9 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 8.9 mi
  • The Alcove: 9.0 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 9.1 mi
  • Lower Cliff: 9.1 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Oak Grove: 10.2 mi
  • Nature's Pavilion: 10.3 mi
  • Oak Lea: 10.3 mi
  • Pine Knoll: 10.4 mi
  • Babcock Arboretum: 12.4 mi
Rest areas: 8
  • Westwood Rest Area: 4.1 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 13.4 mi
  • Commissioners Landing: 13.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 14.0 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 20.9 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 8.6 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 17.6 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 18.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Martha Jones Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillE 82°193 m6.2 mi
Moose HillSSE 168°163 m5.4 mi
Hancock HillE 80°155 m7.2 mi
Hemenway HillE 80°140 m7.0 mi
Bluff HillS 171°138 m6.1 mi
Snow HillWNW 301°137 m3.2 mi
Cedar HillWNW 295°134 m2.4 mi
Wolcott HillE 81°132 m6.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:1019:4320:25
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1115:3116:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737264534334
Precip in3.93.44.84.43.64.23.64.03.75.04.15.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Walpole 2, 3 mi away.

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee85 obs
  • Common Garter Snake68 obs
  • common mugwort68 obs
  • Wild Turkey65 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle63 obs
  • American Robin57 obs
  • garlic mustard55 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail51 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/1366699197

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