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Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden

Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden from directly overhead

Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Single Tree Hill stands 100 m to the west-southwest, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Lewis Street Mall, a park 0.1 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 1.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Friends of the Mary Ellen Welch Greenway
Access
Yes
Fee
No
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.36724, -71.03949

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lewis Street Mall: 0.1 mi
  • Piers Park: 0.2 mi
  • Albert "Junior" Lombardi Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
  • Detective Walter E. Malone Square: 0.3 mi
  • Rockies Urban Wilds: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Commemorative Relief of Noodle Island: 0.1 mi
  • Joseph F. Fiandaca: 0.3 mi
  • LoPresti Park: 0.3 mi
  • Korean War Memorial: 0.3 mi
  • Mothers of Maverick Street: 0.3 mi
Artworks
  • Rising Tides: 0.1 mi
  • Pillar: 0.1 mi
  • Islands: 0.2 mi
  • Ties: 0.3 mi
  • Rise: 0.4 mi
Gardens
Peaks
  • Camp Hill: 0.3 mi
  • Copps Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Breeds Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Beacon Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Admiral's Hill: 1.6 mi
Museums
Attractions
Beaches
  • Pleasure Bay Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Corinha Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Short Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Yirrel Beach: 3.6 mi
  • Revere Beach: 4.3 mi
Nature reserves
Cliffs: 49
Picnic sites: 24
  • Pine Knoll: 4.9 mi
  • Oak Lea: 5.0 mi
  • Nature's Pavilion: 5.1 mi
  • Babcock Arboretum: 6.8 mi
  • Pinetops Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 4
  • Commissioners Landing: 1.8 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 12.0 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 21.7 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 21.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Rock Falls: 11.7 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 22.4 mi
Springs: 3
  • Quarry Spring: 5.8 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 11.0 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 24.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.5 miles of Mary Ellen Welch Memorial Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Single Tree HillWSW 242°100 m6.5 mi
Cairn HillNNW 336°92 m5.9 mi
Mount WalleySW 231°91 m6.4 mi
Green HillSW 227°89 m6.5 mi
Boojum RockNNW 336°83 m5.5 mi
Fisher HillWSW 243°81 m5.7 mi
Corey HillWSW 250°80 m5.1 mi
Mount HoodN 3°79 m5.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0819:4320:25
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:1115:3016:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303238495868747366554536
Precip in3.43.24.23.63.23.93.33.23.64.03.74.3

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel1,296 obs
  • Rock Pigeon1,143 obs
  • House Sparrow923 obs
  • Mallard779 obs
  • Canada Goose696 obs
  • American Herring Gull554 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail399 obs
  • American Robin382 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/962624623

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