Glacken Field
Glacken Field is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the west, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Auburn Veterans Memorial, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 2.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 17 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 4.8 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 25.4 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 4 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 23 mi
- Lookout Point · 27 mi
- Eagle Rock · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Auburn Veterans Memorial: 0.0 mi
- The Sphinx: 0.6 mi
- Brodette Memorial Circle: 0.7 mi
- Teeven Memorial Circle: 0.7 mi
- Mary Baker Eddy Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway: 0.3 mi
- Kingsley Park: 0.3 mi
- Little Fresh Pond Dog Beach: 0.3 mi
- Grove Street Park: 0.4 mi
- Buckingham, Brown And Nichols School Athletic Field: 0.5 mi
- Turtle: 0.4 mi
- Boston: 1.2 mi
- Longfellow: 1.3 mi
- Evo: 1.4 mi
- All That Empty Space: 1.5 mi
- Mount Auburn: 0.8 mi
- Coolidge Hill: 0.9 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 1.1 mi
- Whitney Hill: 1.8 mi
- Clarendon Hill: 2.1 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.0 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.1 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.2 mi
- Whitney Hill Park: 1.7 mi
- Hunnewell Woods: 2.0 mi
- Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging: 1.1 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 1.6 mi
- Edmund Fowle House: 1.7 mi
- The Collection Of Historical Scientific Instruments: 1.8 mi
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1.9 mi
- Shawn Megan Memorial Garden: 1.1 mi
- Wallach Garden: 1.5 mi
- Harvard Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Penniman Road Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Adolphus Busch Hall Garden: 1.9 mi
- Harvard Square: 1.7 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 2.5 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 2.6 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Top/End): 3.4 mi
- 34: 3.5 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 4.6 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 5.1 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 7.4 mi
- Tenean Beach: 8.2 mi
- Corinha Beach: 8.7 mi
- Lunch Wall: 3.8 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 3.9 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 3.9 mi
- Lower Cliff: 4.1 mi
- Upper Cliff: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 5.2 mi
- Valley Shelter: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Site 12: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 5.3 mi
- Picnic Site 5: 5.3 mi
- Boathouse: 13.8 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.8 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.8 mi
- Rainshed: 13.8 mi
- Boston Light: 13.9 mi
- Quarry Spring: 4.5 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 12.6 mi
- Mystery Spring: 19.1 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.9 mi
- Rock Falls: 14.6 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.7 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 4.3 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 11.3 mi
- Haywardville: 6.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.4 miles of Glacken Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Hill | W 276° | 135 m | 5.2 mi |
| Little Prospect | W 273° | 133 m | 5.3 mi |
| Whipple Hill | NNW 339° | 110 m | 4.6 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 343° | 107 m | 3.8 mi |
| Zion Hill | NNW 345° | 107 m | 5.3 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | N 352° | 105 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Independence | NW 318° | 101 m | 4.6 mi |
| Single Tree Hill | S 180° | 100 m | 4.0 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 | 20:26 |
| 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, 6 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,908 obs
- Western Honey Bee1,817 obs
- American Robin1,033 obs
- Mallard880 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel872 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle812 obs
- Eastern Cottontail764 obs
- Canada Goose742 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/29837013
Day trips start here
- Arlington · 2 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 2 mi
- Cambridge · 2 mi
- Watertown · 2 mi
- Somerville · 3 mi
- Boston/Back Bay-Beacon Hill · 4 mi
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