Billings Field
Billings Field is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the south-southeast, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Bellevue Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 0.8 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 8.8 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 29.4 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 6 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 17 mi
- Lookout Point · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bellevue Hill: 0.7 mi
- Peaked Hill: 0.9 mi
- Bearberry Hill: 1.1 mi
- Weld Hill: 1.5 mi
- Monterey Hill: 1.6 mi
- Praught Field: 0.7 mi
- Bellevue Hill Park: 0.7 mi
- Hynes Playground: 0.9 mi
- Hynes Field: 1.0 mi
- Brucewood St Park: 1.0 mi
- Havey Beach: 1.0 mi
- Hancock Woods: 1.1 mi
- Charles River Wildlife Management Area: 1.4 mi
- Roslindale Wetlands: 1.5 mi
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary: 1.6 mi
- Bay State Model Railroad Museum: 1.4 mi
- Larz Anderson Auto Museum: 2.3 mi
- Fairbanks House: 2.7 mi
- Loring-Greenough House: 2.9 mi
- Longyear Museum: 3.0 mi
- Historic Springhouse: 1.8 mi
- The Castle: 2.1 mi
- Bishop Riley: 2.5 mi
- Ghost Bike for Joseph Lee Alan Pielmeier: 2.5 mi
- Oakdale war memorial: 2.7 mi
- Bradley Rosaceous Collection: 2.4 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.5 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.5 mi
- Minton Stable Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- Jamaica Pond Park Rain Garden: 3.1 mi
- Jamaica Pond Bench: 3.2 mi
- Sam Adams Boston Brewery Tour: 3.6 mi
- Andean Condor: 3.7 mi
- Emu: 3.7 mi
- Western Grey Kangaroo: 3.7 mi
- Drift by Mary Bonina: 3.2 mi
- Taino Mural: 3.6 mi
- Beauty Master Mural: 3.7 mi
- Saint Ignatius Loyola: 3.8 mi
- Pimentel Market Mural: 3.8 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 3.8 mi
- North Beach: 5.2 mi
- South Beach: 5.4 mi
- Powissett Beach: 5.6 mi
- Shapiro Beach: 5.7 mi
- The Alcove: 3.0 mi
- Upper Cliff: 3.1 mi
- Lower Cliff: 3.1 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 3.3 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 3.3 mi
- Oak Lea: 3.8 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 3.8 mi
- Pine Knoll: 3.8 mi
- Babcock Arboretum: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 8.7 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 4.4 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 6.8 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 19.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 20.5 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 22.2 mi
- Boathouse: 13.9 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.9 mi
- Oil Shed: 14.0 mi
- Boston Light: 14.0 mi
- Rainshed: 14.0 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 6.8 mi
- Quarry Spring: 11.0 mi
- Mystery Spring: 24.4 mi
- Rock Falls: 9.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 12.1 mi
- Haywardville: 13.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.0 miles of Billings Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Blue Hill | SSE 156° | 193 m | 5.2 mi |
| Hancock Hill | SE 144° | 155 m | 5.3 mi |
| Hemenway Hill | SSE 147° | 140 m | 5.2 mi |
| Tucker Hill | SE 143° | 133 m | 5.9 mi |
| Wolcott Hill | SSE 151° | 132 m | 5.2 mi |
| Houghton Hill | SSE 147° | 129 m | 5.6 mi |
| Strawberry Hill | WSW 238° | 114 m | 6.0 mi |
| High Rock | SW 227° | 104 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:16 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Cottontail1,090 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel546 obs
- American Robin526 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee410 obs
- Western Honey Bee293 obs
- Mourning Dove248 obs
- garlic mustard237 obs
- Northern Cardinal211 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/29834688
Day trips start here
- Boston/Outer Neighborhoods · 1 mi
- Eastern Massachusetts · 2 mi
- Boston/Jamaica Plain-Mission Hill · 3 mi
- Dedham · 3 mi
- Boston/Roxbury · 4 mi
- Brookline · 4 mi
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