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Minnie Reid Conservation Area

Minnie Reid Conservation Area from directly overhead

Minnie Reid Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 37 m. Robbins Hill stands 122 m to the northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Daughters of St. Paul Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 4.5 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.52037, -71.29070

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Peaks
Parks
  • Nutting Lake Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Willson Park: 1.9 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 2.2 mi
  • Wilson Mill Park: 2.7 mi
  • Town Common: 2.8 mi
Artworks
  • Buddha Statue: 1.4 mi
  • Dance Rhythm: 2.0 mi
  • Rembering Center School: 2.1 mi
  • The Patriot: 2.2 mi
  • Minute Man Statue: 4.7 mi
Gardens
  • Bedford Garden Club: 1.9 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Bedford Garden Club: 2.1 mi
  • Courtyard: 2.1 mi
  • Bedford Garden Club: 2.1 mi
Beaches
  • Baby Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Borggaard Beach: 8.8 mi
  • Freeman Lake Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Pelham Town Beach: 13.0 mi
  • Pearce Lake Beach: 13.1 mi
Cliffs: 41
Picnic sites: 24
Rest areas: 6
Lighthouses: 6
Waterfalls: 4
  • Wamesit Falls: 7.5 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 12.1 mi
  • The Falls: 22.9 mi
  • Newbury Falls: 24.3 mi
Springs: 3
  • Mystery Spring: 7.4 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 11.1 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 24.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Minnie Reid Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Robbins HillNW 320°122 m5.9 mi
Rail Tree HillWNW 285°111 m5.2 mi
Annursnac HillWSW 241°110 m6.1 mi
Loring HillSSE 154°109 m6.3 mi
Granny HillSE 143°108 m5.9 mi
Zion HillSE 128°107 m7.2 mi
Pine HillSSW 199°106 m6.0 mi
Hemlock HillNW 319°105 m2.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:0919:4420:27
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1215:3016:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272937485867737163514132
Precip in3.73.44.83.93.84.13.83.93.74.94.14.8

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

  • Water caltrop77 obs
  • Festive Tiger Beetle69 obs
  • Painted Turtle58 obs
  • northern starflower53 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage52 obs
  • alder buckthorn48 obs
  • Common Watersnake44 obs
  • Big Sand Tiger Beetle43 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/29872189

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