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Adams Farm

Adams Farm from directly overhead

Adams Farm is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 76 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the east-northeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Warren Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 2.6 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.18507, -71.25640

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Gardens
Peaks
Parks
  • Wilson Street Playground: 1.6 mi
  • Pheasant Hill Park: 1.7 mi
  • Alevizos Park: 1.9 mi
  • Buckmaster Pond: 2.1 mi
  • Buckmaster Pond Park: 2.1 mi
Museums
  • Peak House Museum: 2.1 mi
  • Kingsbury Grist Mill: 2.3 mi
  • Lowell Mason Museum and Music Center: 2.5 mi
  • Medfield Historical Society Museum: 2.5 mi
  • Morse House: 2.6 mi
Beaches
  • Turner Pond Beach: 2.4 mi
  • South Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Shapiro Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Powissett Beach: 3.4 mi
  • North Beach: 3.6 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions
  • 2: 3.4 mi
  • 1: 3.4 mi
  • 13: 3.8 mi
  • 14: 3.8 mi
  • 15: 3.9 mi
Cliffs: 47
  • Breakneck Ledge: 8.3 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 8.4 mi
  • King Philip Cave: 8.5 mi
  • The Alcove: 10.4 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 10.5 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Oak Grove: 9.7 mi
  • Nature's Pavilion: 11.8 mi
  • Oak Lea: 11.9 mi
  • Pine Knoll: 11.9 mi
  • 36: 13.0 mi
Rest areas: 8
  • Westwood Rest Area: 5.5 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 12.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 12.8 mi
  • Commissioners Landing: 15.2 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 19.5 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 9.8 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 19.0 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 20.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Adams Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillENE 76°193 m7.5 mi
Moose HillSSE 153°163 m4.8 mi
Bluff HillSSE 157°138 m5.4 mi
Snow HillNNW 329°137 m3.2 mi
Cedar HillNNW 334°134 m2.3 mi
Wolcott HillENE 75°132 m7.9 mi
Pegan HillNNW 332°125 m5.2 mi
Dudley HillS 169°116 m6.3 mi
Conditions

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 solstice07:1115:3116:17

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, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/29836291

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