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Edmands Park

Edmands Park from directly overhead

Edmands Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the northwest, 4.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Morton Road Historic District, a park 0.2 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 5.1 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.34246, -71.19804

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Morton Road Historic District: 0.2 mi
  • Cabot Park: 0.5 mi
  • Sumner and Gibbs Street Historic District: 0.5 mi
  • Washington Park: 0.5 mi
  • Commonwealth Avenue Historic District: 0.6 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
Peaks
Beaches
  • Crystal Lake Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Morses Pond Beach: 6.9 mi
  • North Beach: 7.6 mi
  • Powissett Beach: 7.9 mi
  • South Beach: 7.9 mi
Artworks
Gardens
Cliffs: 43
  • Lunch Wall: 1.2 mi
  • Pusherman Wall: 1.5 mi
  • Temple Overhangs: 1.6 mi
  • Lower Cliff: 1.8 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 1.8 mi
Picnic sites: 42
  • Picnic Site 11: 4.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 10: 4.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 9: 4.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 12: 4.1 mi
  • Picnic Site 8: 4.2 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 4
  • Commissioners Landing: 6.5 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 8.9 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 23.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 24.0 mi
Springs: 3
  • Quarry Spring: 8.0 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 11.4 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 19.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Rock Falls: 14.0 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 20.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.0 miles of Edmands Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Prospect HillNW 318°135 m4.3 mi
Little ProspectNW 315°133 m4.1 mi
Doublet HillW 276°108 m3.9 mi
Maugus HillWSW 239°101 m4.3 mi
Single Tree HillESE 120°100 m2.7 mi
Waban HillE 99°98 m1.2 mi
Cat Rock HillNW 306°95 m5.4 mi
Mount GilboaN 7°95 m6.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:0919:4320:26
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1115:3016:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968747365534334
Precip in3.93.64.54.33.64.23.53.74.05.04.05.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 5 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel591 obs
  • eastern white pine436 obs
  • American pokeweed365 obs
  • Canada Goose296 obs
  • hay-scented fern296 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail292 obs
  • Mallard272 obs
  • American Robin265 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/116887252

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