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Gallagher Memorial Park

Gallagher Memorial Park from directly overhead

Gallagher Memorial Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the northwest, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is McMullen Museum of Art, a museum 0.3 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 4.0 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.34508, -71.16552

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rogers Park: 0.4 mi
  • Boyden Park: 0.4 mi
  • Oak Square: 0.4 mi
  • Hardiman Playground: 0.4 mi
  • Theresa Hynes Park: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Soldiers Monument: 0.5 mi
  • Rabbi Joseph Shalom Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Aerosmith Apartment: 1.5 mi
  • Watertown Founders Monument: 1.6 mi
  • Joseph P. Golden Memorial: 1.6 mi
Peaks
Artworks
Attractions
Gardens
  • Penniman Road Community Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Lawton Park Community Garden: 2.0 mi
  • School Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Emma Hart Fessenden Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Harvard Community Garden: 3.0 mi
Beaches
  • Crystal Lake Beach: 2.3 mi
  • Tenean Beach: 7.2 mi
  • Pleasure Bay Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Borggaard Beach: 7.6 mi
  • Nickerson Beach: 8.3 mi
Cliffs: 44
  • Lunch Wall: 1.3 mi
  • Temple Overhangs: 1.4 mi
  • Pusherman Wall: 1.4 mi
  • Lower Cliff: 1.5 mi
  • Upper Cliff: 1.5 mi
Picnic sites: 27
  • Pine Knoll: 4.7 mi
  • Oak Lea: 4.8 mi
  • Nature's Pavilion: 4.9 mi
  • Picnic Site 11: 5.3 mi
  • Picnic Site 10: 5.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 4
  • Commissioners Landing: 4.8 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 8.8 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 23.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 24.5 mi
Springs: 3
  • Quarry Spring: 7.0 mi
  • Pakomet Spring: 10.7 mi
  • Mystery Spring: 20.5 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Rock Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Wamesit Falls: 20.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 5.8 miles of Gallagher Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Prospect HillNW 304°135 m5.4 mi
Little ProspectWNW 301°133 m5.3 mi
Doublet HillW 273°108 m5.6 mi
Single Tree HillSSE 156°100 m1.7 mi
Waban HillSW 228°98 m0.6 mi
Bellevue HillSSE 167°94 m4.9 mi
Bird's HillSSW 211°92 m5.1 mi
Mount WalleySSE 151°91 m2.9 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, 4 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel775 obs
  • Canada Goose738 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee581 obs
  • American pokeweed557 obs
  • eastern white pine511 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail484 obs
  • Mute Swan466 obs
  • Mallard459 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/29835195

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