Danehy Park
Danehy Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Whipple Hill stands 110 m to the north-northwest, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Cambridge Olympians, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 1.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 4.5 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 24.5 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 4 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 24 mi
- Eagle Rock · 27 mi
- Lookout Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cambridge Olympians: 0.0 mi
- Brodette Memorial Circle: 0.3 mi
- Teeven Memorial Circle: 0.4 mi
- Cambridge Brick Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Watson's Corner: 0.7 mi
- Rothlisberger Park: 0.2 mi
- Saint Peters Field: 0.2 mi
- McMath Park: 0.4 mi
- Raymond Park: 0.5 mi
- Taylor Square: 0.5 mi
- Shawn Megan Memorial Garden: 0.2 mi
- Bikeway Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Wallach Garden: 1.1 mi
- Native Pollinator Garden: 1.2 mi
- Tufts Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.4 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.5 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.5 mi
- Cooke's Hollow: 2.2 mi
- Mystic River Reservation: 2.3 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 0.8 mi
- Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging: 1.2 mi
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1.2 mi
- Harvard Museum of Natural History: 1.3 mi
- Harvard Geological and Mineral Museum: 1.3 mi
- Boston: 0.8 mi
- Gift of the Wind: 0.9 mi
- Longfellow: 1.0 mi
- Free Range Sculpture Garden: 1.1 mi
- Judgement: 1.1 mi
- Clarendon Hill: 1.2 mi
- Powder House Hill: 1.3 mi
- Mount Auburn: 1.4 mi
- Spring Hill: 1.4 mi
- Spring Hill: 1.4 mi
- Harvard Square: 1.4 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 2.2 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 2.2 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 3.4 mi
- Citgo Sign: 3.4 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 4.5 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 5.5 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 7.0 mi
- Revere Beach: 7.9 mi
- Short Beach: 7.9 mi
- Lunch Wall: 4.6 mi
- Crag 1: 4.6 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 4.8 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 4.8 mi
- Lower Cliff: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 5.9 mi
- Valley Shelter: 6.0 mi
- Picnic Site 12: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Site 4: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 6.1 mi
- Boathouse: 13.2 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.2 mi
- Rainshed: 13.2 mi
- Boston Light: 13.3 mi
- Quarry Spring: 3.6 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 12.9 mi
- Mystery Spring: 19.2 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.0 mi
- Rock Falls: 14.7 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.5 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 3.8 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- Haywardville: 5.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.2 miles of Danehy Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple Hill | NNW 327° | 110 m | 4.4 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 328° | 107 m | 3.6 mi |
| Zion Hill | NNW 335° | 107 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NNW 340° | 105 m | 4.2 mi |
| Mount Independence | NW 307° | 101 m | 4.9 mi |
| Single Tree Hill | S 190° | 100 m | 4.6 mi |
| Waban Hill | SSW 210° | 98 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mount Gilboa | NW 319° | 95 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
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, 6 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee3,688 obs
- Western Honey Bee3,014 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee1,378 obs
- American Robin1,341 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,210 obs
- Wild Turkey1,196 obs
- Eastern Cottontail1,073 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle1,064 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/29818452
Day trips start here
- Arlington · 2 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 2 mi
- Cambridge · 2 mi
- Somerville · 2 mi
- Medford · 3 mi
- Watertown · 3 mi
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