Nature reserve · Massachusetts

Sudbury River Reservation

Marked private. Do not count on getting in.

Sudbury River Reservation from directly overhead

Sudbury River Reservation is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 83 m. Fay Mountain stands 212 m to the west-southwest, 4.1 miles off. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

Getting there

How to reach it

Coordinates42.26716, -71.55649

16.6 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
17.0 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
18.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
25.6 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Sudbury River Reservation: 0.1 mi
Cr #8: 0.4 mi
Sudbury River Reservation: 0.5 mi
Roosevelt Farms: 0.7 mi
Roosevelt Farms: 0.7 mi

Parks

Highland Park: 0.7 mi
Highland Park: 0.8 mi
Highland Park: 0.8 mi
Highland Park: 0.8 mi
Highland Park: 0.9 mi

Peaks

Saddle Hill: 1.5 mi
Fairview Hill: 1.5 mi
Newtons Hill: 1.7 mi
Mount Nebo: 1.9 mi
Mount Vickery: 2.0 mi

Historic sites

Watkins Woods Plaque: 1.9 mi
Martha Templeman Plaque: 2.0 mi
WW1 Memorial: 3.2 mi
Caffrey family house foundation (1790s): 3.4 mi
War veterans memorial: 4.7 mi

Gardens

Community Garden Southborough: 2.4 mi
Southborough Town Pound: 3.0 mi
Berlin Community Garden: 6.8 mi
Cider Knoll Community Garden: 7.3 mi
Hudson Community Garden: 8.3 mi

Artworks

horseshoe sculpture: 3.1 mi
George V. Brown Memorial: 3.3 mi
Hoyt Statue: 3.3 mi
Fireball: 8.3 mi
Stegosaurus: 8.4 mi

Attractions

Boston Marathon Starting Line: 3.2 mi
“The Rock” in Marlborough: 7.0 mi
Teetering Rock: 7.5 mi
Chattering Rock: 7.7 mi
Old Black Oak: 8.4 mi

Museums

Picnic sites37

Picnic Site 9: 17.3 mi
Picnic Site 10: 17.3 mi
Picnic Site 8: 17.3 mi
Picnic Site 11: 17.4 mi
Picnic Site 6: 17.4 mi

Beaches35

Hopkinton Reservoir Beach: 2.2 mi
Hopkinton Main Beach: 2.5 mi
Lake Chauncy Public Beach: 3.1 mi
Learned Pond Beach: 7.3 mi
Memorial Beach: 7.5 mi

Cliffs20

Condo Rock: 7.0 mi
The Wall: 7.2 mi
Falling Rock Ridge: 7.8 mi
Sawyer Bluff: 11.5 mi
Scar Hill Bluffs: 11.6 mi

Rest areas6

Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 19.1 mi
Westwood Rest Area: 20.7 mi
Interstate 95 Rest Area: 22.8 mi
Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 22.9 mi
Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 23.3 mi

Waterfalls2

Cascades: 23.5 mi
Emerson Falls: 24.5 mi

Springs1

Mystery Spring: 22.8 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.6 miles of Sudbury River Reservation. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Fay Mountain	WSW 243°	212 m	4.1 mi
George Hill	SW 221°	183 m	6.5 mi
Green Hill	W 265°	181 m	6.5 mi
Pratt Hill	SSW 207°	181 m	6.6 mi
Peppercorn Hill	S 182°	174 m	5.5 mi
Boston Hill	W 275°	172 m	5.6 mi
Sligo Hill	N 353°	172 m	5.6 mi
Bear Hill	SSW 192°	170 m	4.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:51	18:22	18:58
June solstice	05:11	19:44	20:27
September equinox	06:34	18:08	18:45
December solstice	07:13	15:32	16:18

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	26	28	36	47	57	66	72	70	62	51	41	32
Precip in	3.4	3.1	3.9	4.1	3.8	4.1	3.9	3.8	4.2	4.8	3.7	4.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Natick, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29782789

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