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Better Homes and Gardens 1950 Achievement Award

Better Homes and Gardens 1950 Achievement Award from directly overhead

Better Homes and Gardens 1950 Achievement Award is a historic site in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 28 m. Cairn Hill stands 92 m to the south, 4.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Floral Way, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 7.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Inscription
Better Homes and Gardens Magazine Achievement Award More Beautiful America Competition Wakefield Garden Club 1950
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.50585, -71.07667

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Floral Way: 0.2 mi
  • Paddy Heights Veterans Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Virginia Wood: 3.4 mi
  • Honor Roll of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars: 3.4 mi
  • Woburn Moose Memorial: 3.9 mi
Parks
  • Hiker Monument and Rockery: 0.2 mi
  • Upper Common: 0.3 mi
  • Moulton Field: 0.5 mi
  • Nasella Field: 0.7 mi
  • Paddy Heights Veterans Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Peaks
Beaches
Attractions
  • Stone Chimney: 3.6 mi
  • Pickerel Rock: 4.1 mi
  • Steel Tower: 4.4 mi
  • 1899 MIT Observatory site: 4.5 mi
  • Echo Rock: 4.6 mi
Artworks
  • Baldwin Green: 4.2 mi
  • Orange Dinosaur: 4.5 mi
  • Rock spiral: 5.2 mi
  • Jumbo Statue: 7.1 mi
  • The Cannon: 7.2 mi
Gardens
Cliffs: 49
Picnic sites: 25
  • Pinetops Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
  • Picnic Site 1: 11.7 mi
  • Picnic Site 2: 12.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 3: 12.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 4: 12.1 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 6
  • Commissioners Landing: 10.2 mi
  • Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 18.7 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 20.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (North Bound): 20.6 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 22.2 mi
Springs: 5
  • Quarry Spring: 5.0 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 17.8 mi
  • Rail Spring: 20.4 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 20.5 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 24.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cascade Falls: 4.2 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Newbury Falls: 18.5 mi
  • Rock Falls: 21.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 5.2 miles of Better Homes and Gardens 1950 Achievement Award. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cairn HillS 186°92 m4.2 mi
Bear HillSSW 209°91 m3.2 mi
Castle RockSE 126°87.2 m2.0 mi
Burrill HillESE 103°87 m4.8 mi
Horn Pond MountainSW 233°86 m5.2 mi
Winthrop HillSSW 206°84 m3.5 mi
Boojum RockS 184°83 m4.6 mi
Crow HillESE 123°82.9 m2.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:1918:57
June solstice05:0819:4320:26
September equinox06:3218:0618:44
December solstice07:1115:2916:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283037485867737264534334
Precip in3.93.64.94.33.84.24.03.53.94.84.05.0

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/7656468885

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