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Wallace Forest

Wallace Forest from directly overhead

Wallace Forest is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 253 m. Mount Grace stands 491 m to the east-southeast, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Morse Memorial Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 2.4 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.71345, -72.39943

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Bolster Hill: 0.4 mi
  • Notch Mountain: 0.7 mi
  • Bolster Hill: 0.7 mi
  • Great Hemlock: 0.8 mi
  • Birch Point: 0.9 mi
Parks
  • Kiwanis Park: 2.0 mi
  • Loring Field: 3.2 mi
  • Ellen Lambert Murphy Memorial Community Center: 4.0 mi
  • Moores Pond Town Beach: 4.8 mi
  • Winchester Town Beach: 5.9 mi
Historic sites
Museums: 34
Attractions: 26
  • Hermit's Castle: 7.1 mi
  • Stone Bridge: 7.7 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.0 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.0 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.1 mi
Cliffs: 23
  • Table Rock: 3.9 mi
  • Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 8.3 mi
  • Introductory Buttress: 8.3 mi
  • Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 8.3 mi
  • Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 8.4 mi
Artworks: 21
  • South Royalston Chicken: 14.0 mi
  • Greenfield Money Tree: 14.4 mi
  • Reaching: 15.9 mi
  • Aurora: 16.0 mi
  • Trinity Bicycle Shop: 16.2 mi
Beaches: 16
  • Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 7.4 mi
  • Silver Lake Beach: 11.6 mi
  • Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 12.7 mi
  • North Camping Area Beach: 16.4 mi
  • Lake Dennison Picnic & Swim Area: 16.6 mi
Gardens: 14
Waterfalls: 9
  • Pulpit Falls: 1.0 mi
  • Hobo Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Royalston Falls: 7.8 mi
  • Spirit Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Falls Brook Falls: 10.8 mi
Ghost towns: 4
Covered bridges: 2
Springs: 1
  • Falcon Spring: 18.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount GraceESE 124°491 m2.7 mi
Crag MountainS 191°456 m4.9 mi
Brush MountainSSW 196°455 m4.4 mi
Bennetts KnobESE 118°444 m2.8 mi
Attleboro MountainNE 45°427 m6.3 mi
Mayo HillE 88°418 m5.1 mi
Scott MountainNE 40°410 m5.4 mi
White HillE 87°409 m6.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1219:4920:32
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1715:3416:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634475968747264514030
Precip in3.62.93.93.53.54.54.64.34.34.73.64.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tully Lake, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29914031

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