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Planted Canoe

Planted Canoe from directly overhead

Planted Canoe is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 51 m. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the southeast, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Brister Freeman Homestead Site Marker, a historic site 0.3 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 0.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Concord-Carlisle Regional High School
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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.44741, -71.34622

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Attractions
Nature reserves
Parks
Museums
Gardens
  • Native Plant Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Native Plant Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Monument Square: 1.0 mi
  • Conantum Community Gardens: 1.3 mi
  • Italinate garden: 2.1 mi
Peaks
Artworks
  • Minute Man Statue: 1.5 mi
  • Dream World: 2.1 mi
  • Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories: 2.1 mi
  • Archadian Gyro: 2.1 mi
  • Watershed: 2.1 mi
Beaches
  • Stow Town Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Borggaard Beach: 10.4 mi
  • Morses Pond Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Memorial Beach: 10.7 mi
  • Centennial Beach: 10.8 mi
Cliffs: 44
Picnic sites: 23
  • Picnic Site 1: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Site 2: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Site 3: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Site 4: 6.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 6: 6.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Waterfalls: 5
  • Wamesit Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Cascades: 24.3 mi
  • Rock Falls: 24.5 mi
  • The Falls: 24.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Commissioners Landing: 15.2 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 18.6 mi
  • Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 18.8 mi
  • Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 22.2 mi
Springs: 3
  • Mystery Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 12.3 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 21.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.5 miles of Planted Canoe. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Prospect HillSE 131°135 m6.2 mi
Little ProspectSE 133°133 m6.4 mi
Goodman HillSSW 211°119 m5.8 mi
Nagog HillNW 310°111 m6.4 mi
Annursnac HillNW 310°110 m3.3 mi
Loring HillE 96°109 m5.6 mi
Great HillWNW 285°109 m5.7 mi
Granny HillE 87°108 m6.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2118:58
June solstice05:0919:4420:27
September equinox06:3318:0818:45
December solstice07:1215:3116:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F282937495968747264524233
Precip in2.92.73.83.83.43.73.53.53.54.23.73.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bedford Hanscom FLD, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • striped wintergreen237 obs
  • pitch pine168 obs
  • pink lady's slipper165 obs
  • American chestnut156 obs
  • Ghost Pipe151 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee151 obs
  • Common Garter Snake147 obs
  • Eastern Chipmunk135 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 node/9780944398

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