Hynes Field
Hynes Field is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 47 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the south-southeast, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Hynes Playground, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 1.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 47 m
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 7.8 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 5 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 18 mi
- Lookout Point · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hynes Playground: 0.0 mi
- Brucewood St Park: 0.1 mi
- West Roxbury Parkway: 1.0 mi
- Billings Field: 1.0 mi
- Fallon Field: 1.1 mi
- Hancock Woods: 0.4 mi
- D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary: 0.7 mi
- Kesseler Woods Conservation Area: 0.9 mi
- Kesseler Woods Conservation Area: 1.1 mi
- Roslindale Wetlands: 1.1 mi
- Peaked Hill: 0.6 mi
- Walnut Hill: 0.7 mi
- Weld Hill: 1.0 mi
- Green Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Walley: 1.2 mi
- Historic Springhouse: 1.2 mi
- Ghost Bike for Joseph Lee Alan Pielmeier: 2.0 mi
- Parkman Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Soldier's Monument: 2.2 mi
- The Castle: 2.9 mi
- Bay State Model Railroad Museum: 1.3 mi
- Larz Anderson Auto Museum: 1.4 mi
- Longyear Museum: 2.1 mi
- Loring-Greenough House: 2.2 mi
- Metropolitan Waterworks Museum: 2.5 mi
- Bradley Rosaceous Collection: 1.9 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.1 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.1 mi
- Jamaica Pond Park Rain Garden: 2.3 mi
- Jamaica Pond Park Rain Garden: 2.3 mi
- Jamaica Pond Bench: 2.4 mi
- Sam Adams Boston Brewery Tour: 2.9 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Top/End): 3.1 mi
- Piccadilly Square Chair: 3.2 mi
- Andean Condor: 3.2 mi
- Drift by Mary Bonina: 2.6 mi
- Taino Mural: 2.9 mi
- Saint Ignatius Loyola: 2.9 mi
- Beauty Master Mural: 2.9 mi
- Pimentel Market Mural: 3.1 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 3.2 mi
- Tenean Beach: 5.6 mi
- North Beach: 5.9 mi
- South Beach: 6.2 mi
- Powissett Beach: 6.3 mi
- The Alcove: 2.2 mi
- Upper Cliff: 2.2 mi
- Lower Cliff: 2.2 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 2.5 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 2.5 mi
- Oak Lea: 3.3 mi
- Pine Knoll: 3.4 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 3.4 mi
- Babcock Arboretum: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 8.0 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 5.4 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 6.0 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 20.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 21.4 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 22.6 mi
- Boathouse: 13.6 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.6 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.6 mi
- Boston Light: 13.7 mi
- Rainshed: 13.7 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 7.4 mi
- Quarry Spring: 10.0 mi
- Mystery Spring: 23.6 mi
- Rock Falls: 10.2 mi
- Cascade Falls: 11.1 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 24.2 mi
- Haywardville: 12.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.1 miles of Hynes Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Blue Hill | SSE 161° | 193 m | 6.1 mi |
| Hancock Hill | SSE 151° | 155 m | 6.1 mi |
| Hemenway Hill | SSE 153° | 140 m | 6.0 mi |
| Wolcott Hill | SSE 157° | 132 m | 6.0 mi |
| High Rock | SW 221° | 104 m | 6.0 mi |
| Maugus Hill | W 280° | 101 m | 6.0 mi |
| Single Tree Hill | N 2° | 100 m | 1.9 mi |
| Waban Hill | NNW 341° | 98 m | 3.2 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 | 20:25 |
| 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, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Cottontail1,151 obs
- American Robin965 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel903 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee576 obs
- Western Honey Bee495 obs
- Mourning Dove310 obs
- garlic mustard309 obs
- lesser celandine267 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/358265183
Day trips start here
- Boston/Outer Neighborhoods · 1 mi
- Boston/Jamaica Plain-Mission Hill · 2 mi
- Eastern Massachusetts · 2 mi
- Brookline · 3 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 4 mi
- Boston/Fenway-Kenmore · 4 mi
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