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Doyle Community Park and Center

Doyle Community Park and Center from directly overhead

Doyle Community Park and Center is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 162 m. Mount Wachusett stands 609 m to the southwest, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairfield Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1981
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.54814, -71.77176

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fairfield Park: 0.7 mi
  • South Fitchburg Playground: 1.0 mi
  • Doyle Field: 1.0 mi
  • Doyle Field: 1.2 mi
  • Carter Park: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Carter Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Monoosnoc Hills: 1.3 mi
  • North Monoosnoc Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Pine Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Gardner Hill: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Oliver E. Hazard Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • Oliver Carter Monument: 1.5 mi
  • Willard Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • Leominster World War 1 Memorial: 1.6 mi
  • Leominster Spanish - American War Memorial: 1.6 mi
Attractions
  • Whale Rock: 1.6 mi
  • Moses' Rock: 1.8 mi
  • Coggshall Rock Ledges & Cliffs: 1.8 mi
  • Painted Rock: 3.1 mi
  • Observation Tower: 7.1 mi
Artworks
  • "Johnny Ro": 3.0 mi
  • Wo Peen, The Dreamer: 8.6 mi
  • Pumunangwet, He Who Soots the Stars: 8.7 mi
  • Schoolboy of 1850: 9.5 mi
  • Forest Bells: 11.8 mi
Museums: 58
Gardens: 48
Beaches: 29
  • Wilder Beach: 2.2 mi
  • The Beach at Arrive: 2.4 mi
  • Lunenburg Town Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Crocker Pond Beach: 5.8 mi
  • Swimming Hole: 8.3 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Cascades: 1.5 mi
  • Emerson Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Trap Falls: 8.6 mi
  • The Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Purgatory Lower Falls: 21.8 mi
Cliffs: 10
Picnic sites: 4
Springs: 2
  • The Ashburnham Spring: 9.5 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 18.5 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 4.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Doyle Community Park and Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WachusettSW 235°609 m7.1 mi
Pine HillSW 231°440 m6.7 mi
Crow HillsWSW 252°376 m4.8 mi
Brown HillNW 322°368 m6.2 mi
Ball HillWSW 243°364 m4.1 mi
South Monoosnoc HillSW 222°345 m2.2 mi
Prospect HillW 275°344 m7.1 mi
Academy HillW 265°344 m7.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2218:59
June solstice05:1019:4620:29
September equinox06:3518:0918:46
December solstice07:1415:3216:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252735475867727163514031
Precip in2.62.83.83.83.64.13.53.44.04.53.63.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fitchburg Muni AP, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Chestnut-collared Longspur37 obs
  • Painted Turtle22 obs
  • Horned Lark20 obs
  • mountain laurel20 obs
  • White-tailed Deer12 obs
  • House Sparrow11 obs
  • Common Snapping Turtle11 obs
  • Common Watersnake10 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/29759167

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