Nature reserve · Massachusetts

Magnante Land/Garrison Farm

Magnante Land/Garrison Farm from directly overhead

Magnante Land/Garrison Farm is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 240 m. Ragged Hill stands 368 m to the west-northwest, 3.3 miles off. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 8.6 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built: 1978

Visiting

What to expect

Access: Yes

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.26757, -72.12545

8.6 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
17.6 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
21.7 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National

Overlooks nearby

Summit House · 24 mi
Kiwanis Point · 24 mi
Waterfall · 28 mi
Overlook · 28 mi

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Peaks

Wigwam Hill: 0.4 mi
Buck Hill: 0.9 mi
Whortleberry Hill: 1.7 mi
Tower Hill: 2.0 mi
Hales Hill: 2.1 mi

Parks

North Brookfield Common: 2.2 mi
West Brookfield Common: 2.3 mi
KIA memorial: 2.4 mi
Lewis Field: 3.7 mi
Brookfield Town Common: 3.8 mi

Historic sites

KIA Memorial: 2.3 mi
Dr. Milman Pease Fountain: 3.8 mi
Warren Civil War Monument: 5.1 mi
9/11 Memorial: Steel Beam: 6.8 mi
Civil War Memorial: 10.6 mi

Attractions

Path Continues: 2.6 mi
Path Continues: 2.7 mi
The Rock House: 3.7 mi
Path Continues?: 4.1 mi
Path Continues: 5.6 mi

Museums37

Stone House Museum: 14.2 mi
Belchertown Firefighter's Museum: 14.3 mi
Keep Homestead Museum: 15.4 mi
Worcester Historical Museum: 16.4 mi
Salisbury Mansion: 16.5 mi

Gardens32

Butterfly Garden: 3.5 mi
Herb Garden: 11.1 mi
Small House Garden: 11.1 mi
IUI Garden for the Ages: 14.4 mi
Hadwen Community Garden: 14.9 mi

Artworks30

Motion: 12.7 mi
Guitar: 13.0 mi
Orthodox Altar: 15.2 mi
Goddard Rocket: 15.5 mi
Sigmund Freud: 15.5 mi

Beaches15

West Brookfield Town Beach: 2.3 mi
Lashaway Park Town Beach: 4.5 mi
Streeter Beach: 10.9 mi
Woodstock Town Beach: 17.7 mi
Haviland Pond Beach: 19.1 mi

Cliffs9

Indian Kitchen: 11.4 mi
Rattlesnake Ledge: 13.5 mi
Overlook: 13.8 mi
Ice Fall (in winter): 19.2 mi
Ice Fall: 19.3 mi

Ghost towns4

Greenwich: 10.8 mi
Dana: 11.9 mi
Enfield: 12.8 mi
Prescott: 14.1 mi

Waterfalls3

Bear's Den Falls: 21.6 mi
Cascade: 23.3 mi
Emerson Falls: 24.5 mi

Picnic sites1

Picnic: 17.4 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Magnante Land/Garrison Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Ragged Hill	WNW 295°	368 m	3.3 mi
Colonels Mountain	WSW 248°	362 m	5.9 mi
Coys Hill	WSW 250°	356 m	4.5 mi
Tufts Hill	NNE 32°	351 m	4.0 mi
Poverty Hill	NNW 330°	348 m	7.5 mi
Bell Hill	ENE 65°	336 m	2.2 mi
Tower Hill	SSW 206°	336 m	8.6 mi
Charity Hill	NNW 332°	333 m	8.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:53	18:24	19:01
June solstice	05:13	19:47	20:29
September equinox	06:36	18:11	18:48
December solstice	07:15	15:34	16:20

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	25	27	35	46	57	66	71	69	62	50	41	31
Precip in	3.7	3.2	4.3	4.3	3.5	3.9	4.0	4.4	4.1	4.8	3.9	4.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Brimfield Lake, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29676930

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