Great Hill Recreation Area
Great Hill Recreation Area is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 105 m. Oak Hill stands 187 m to the northwest, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Hill Conservation Land, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 4.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 105 m
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 20.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 25.3 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 25.4 mi off the The Apple Way of Londonderry
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 21 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Great Hill Conservation Land: 0.1 mi
- Pacy Conservation Land: 0.6 mi
- Monsen Conservation Land: 0.8 mi
- Patriots Hill Conservation Land: 1.1 mi
- Cr #3: 1.2 mi
- Great Hill: 0.2 mi
- Conant Hill: 0.3 mi
- Faulkner Hill: 0.8 mi
- Wright Hill: 1.5 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 2.4 mi
- Discovery Museum: 0.3 mi
- Hosmer House Museum: 0.6 mi
- YV Art Museum: 3.9 mi
- West School Museum: 4.8 mi
- American Heritage Museum: 5.4 mi
- Jones Field: 0.8 mi
- Acton Arboretum: 1.2 mi
- Rockland Soccer Fields: 1.5 mi
- Acton Common: 1.5 mi
- Elm Street Fields: 1.5 mi
- ABRHS Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Stow Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Flerra Meadows Community Garden Boxborough: 3.7 mi
- Yapp Conservation Land Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Colonial Herb Garden: 4.2 mi
- Isaac Davis Home Site: 1.0 mi
- Mead Stone: 1.4 mi
- Isaac Davis Monument: 1.5 mi
- John Robbins Foundation: 1.8 mi
- Captain Sargent Homestead Foundation: 2.1 mi
- stone pile: 2.4 mi
- Diamond Crossing: 3.1 mi
- Old Stone Chamber: 3.5 mi
- Colonel Barrett House: 3.6 mi
- Davies’ Pest House Foundation: 3.6 mi
- Chime Wall: 4.6 mi
- Amadinda: 4.6 mi
- Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio: 5.0 mi
- The Olympic Bell: 5.0 mi
- Minute Man Statue: 5.1 mi
- Stow Town Beach: 4.9 mi
- Harvard Town Beach: 7.3 mi
- Thurston's Beach: 7.4 mi
- Bolton Town Beach: 7.5 mi
- Memorial Beach: 7.6 mi
- Farmers Cliff: 4.5 mi
- Falling Rock Ridge: 8.4 mi
- Bloody Bluff: 9.6 mi
- Old Limestone Quarry: 12.6 mi
- Sawyer Bluff: 15.3 mi
- Family Friendly Area (Multi-use): 9.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 11.2 mi
- Picnic Site 2: 11.2 mi
- Picnic Site 3: 11.3 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 11.3 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 13.6 mi
- Cascades: 18.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 19.2 mi
- Emerson Falls: 20.8 mi
- The Falls: 21.0 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 13.3 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 20.7 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 22.8 mi
- Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 23.1 mi
- Mystery Spring: 8.0 mi
- Quarry Spring: 17.8 mi
- Haywardville: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.7 miles of Great Hill Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill | NW 304° | 187 m | 6.0 mi |
| Oak Hill | WNW 295° | 187 m | 6.0 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | WSW 254° | 145 m | 6.5 mi |
| Flagg Hill | W 266° | 139 m | 2.5 mi |
| Stevens Hill | SW 236° | 127 m | 6.5 mi |
| Marble Hill | WSW 243° | 126 m | 3.8 mi |
| Spindle Hill | SW 235° | 123 m | 4.3 mi |
| Birch Hill | SW 223° | 121 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:44 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:08 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:31 | 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 | 26 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Maynard 2, 3 mi away.
- Green Frog133 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage98 obs
- Painted Turtle97 obs
- eastern white pine86 obs
- American Robin83 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee73 obs
- Common Garter Snake72 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit71 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 node/358277905
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