Grove Street Park
Grove Street Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the west, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Fresh Pond Dog Beach, a park 0.3 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 1.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 15 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 5.2 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 25.6 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 5 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 23 mi
- Lookout Point · 27 mi
- Eagle Rock · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Fresh Pond Dog Beach: 0.3 mi
- Payson Park: 0.4 mi
- Glacken Field: 0.4 mi
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway: 0.7 mi
- Lieutenant Paul J. Sullivan Playground: 0.7 mi
- Mount Auburn Veterans Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Teeven Memorial Circle: 0.9 mi
- Site of Fitchburg Railroad Hill Crossing Depot: 0.9 mi
- The Sphinx: 1.0 mi
- Brodette Memorial Circle: 1.0 mi
- Turtle: 0.7 mi
- Boston: 1.3 mi
- Evo: 1.7 mi
- Longfellow: 1.7 mi
- Allumination: 1.9 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 0.8 mi
- Mount Auburn: 1.2 mi
- Coolidge Hill: 1.2 mi
- Whitney Hill: 1.5 mi
- Wellington Hill: 2.1 mi
- Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging: 0.9 mi
- Edmund Fowle House: 1.4 mi
- Armenian Museum of America: 1.7 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 1.9 mi
- The Plumbing Museum: 2.2 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.2 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.3 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.3 mi
- Whitney Hill Park: 1.4 mi
- Hunnewell Woods: 1.9 mi
- Shawn Megan Memorial Garden: 1.4 mi
- Wallach Garden: 1.9 mi
- Penniman Road Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Harvard Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bikeway Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- Harvard Square: 2.2 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 2.3 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 2.4 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Top/End): 3.3 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Bottom/Start): 3.5 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 4.5 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 5.0 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 7.8 mi
- Tenean Beach: 8.6 mi
- Corinha Beach: 9.1 mi
- Lunch Wall: 3.7 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 4.0 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 4.0 mi
- Lower Cliff: 4.1 mi
- Upper Cliff: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 4.8 mi
- Valley Shelter: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Site 12: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Site 5: 4.9 mi
- Boathouse: 14.2 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 14.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 14.2 mi
- Rainshed: 14.3 mi
- Boston Light: 14.3 mi
- Quarry Spring: 4.6 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 12.9 mi
- Mystery Spring: 18.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 6.1 mi
- Rock Falls: 14.9 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.4 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 4.7 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 11.4 mi
- Haywardville: 6.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.5 miles of Grove Street Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Hill | W 275° | 135 m | 4.8 mi |
| Little Prospect | W 272° | 133 m | 4.9 mi |
| Whipple Hill | NNW 344° | 110 m | 4.3 mi |
| Turkey Hill | N 349° | 107 m | 3.5 mi |
| Zion Hill | NNW 349° | 107 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | N 356° | 105 m | 4.4 mi |
| Mount Independence | NW 321° | 101 m | 4.3 mi |
| Single Tree Hill | S 175° | 100 m | 4.1 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 Bee1,625 obs
- Western Honey Bee1,526 obs
- Mallard890 obs
- American Robin858 obs
- Great Blue Heron633 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk620 obs
- Canada Goose605 obs
- Eastern Cottontail598 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/29744955
Day trips start here
- Watertown · 1 mi
- Arlington · 2 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 2 mi
- Cambridge · 3 mi
- Somerville · 3 mi
- Boston/Fenway-Kenmore · 4 mi
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