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The Pitts Conservation Land

The Pitts Conservation Land from directly overhead

The Pitts Conservation Land is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 55 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the east, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Buckmaster Pond, a park 0.2 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 1.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1975
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.20889, -71.23333

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Buckmaster Pond: 0.2 mi
  • Buckmaster Pond Park: 0.2 mi
  • Pheasant Hill Park: 0.7 mi
  • Westwood Veterans' Park: 0.8 mi
  • Deerfield School Park: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Gardens
Beaches
  • South Beach: 1.6 mi
  • North Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Powissett Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Shapiro Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Turner Pond Beach: 4.3 mi
Historic sites
Museums
  • Morse House: 2.8 mi
  • Peak House Museum: 3.5 mi
  • Lowell Mason Museum and Music Center: 3.8 mi
  • Medfield Historical Society Museum: 4.0 mi
  • Kingsbury Grist Mill: 4.1 mi
Attractions
  • Foundation & Chimney: 3.8 mi
  • Martini Junction: 4.4 mi
  • 2: 5.3 mi
  • 1: 5.3 mi
  • 13: 5.6 mi
Artworks
Cliffs: 51
  • Breakneck Ledge: 6.8 mi
  • The Alcove: 8.4 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 8.5 mi
  • Lower Cliff: 8.5 mi
  • Pusherman Wall: 8.6 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Nature's Pavilion: 9.9 mi
  • Oak Lea: 9.9 mi
  • Pine Knoll: 10.0 mi
  • Oak Grove: 10.8 mi
  • Picnic Site 9: 12.1 mi
Rest areas: 8
  • Westwood Rest Area: 3.9 mi
  • Commissioners Landing: 13.2 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 14.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 14.6 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 21.5 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 8.5 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 17.0 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 18.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of The Pitts Conservation Land. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillE 88°193 m6.1 mi
Moose HillS 170°163 m6.0 mi
Hancock HillE 85°155 m7.1 mi
Hemenway HillE 85°140 m6.8 mi
Bluff HillS 172°138 m6.7 mi
Snow HillWNW 291°137 m3.0 mi
Cedar HillW 280°134 m2.2 mi
Wolcott HillE 86°132 m6.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:0919:4320:25
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1115:3116:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303239506069747265534435
Precip in3.42.83.74.03.33.93.03.63.84.53.74.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norwood MEM AP, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29745115

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