Parsons Field
Parsons Field is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 160 m. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the north-northwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Common, a park 0.3 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 16.2 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 19.9 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 23.7 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 23.9 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 10 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 21 mi
- Waterfall · 23 mi
- Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Town Common: 0.3 mi
- Austin Gaughan Memorial Field: 1.2 mi
- Foley Field: 1.3 mi
- Lake Vale Cemetery: 2.6 mi
- Brown Ellison Park: 6.0 mi
- Jabish Street Pumping Station: 0.3 mi
- Cold Spring Conservation Area: 0.3 mi
- Warner Road Conservation Area: 1.0 mi
- Springfield Water Supply Land: 1.8 mi
- UMass Experimental Forest: 2.2 mi
- Pond Hill: 2.3 mi
- Juckett Hill: 3.3 mi
- Turkey Hill: 3.3 mi
- Quabbin Hill: 3.5 mi
- East Hill: 3.9 mi
- Timber Frame: 2.8 mi
- SSG 102: 9.2 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 9.2 mi
- The Rock House: 10.2 mi
- Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 11.9 mi
- Winsor Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
- Stone Fountain: 7.0 mi
- Frank A Hyrniewicz Memorial: 7.1 mi
- DonaldCurtis Workshop: 7.1 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: Steel Beam: 7.4 mi
- Stone House Museum: 0.3 mi
- Belchertown Firefighter's Museum: 0.4 mi
- National Yiddish Book Center: 7.3 mi
- Bob Stiles House Museum: 7.3 mi
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: 7.5 mi
- Pick-your-own Fields: 7.6 mi
- Community Garden: 7.7 mi
- Hampshire Food Forest: 7.8 mi
- Fort River Elementary Gardens: 8.5 mi
- Yushien Japanese Garden: 8.8 mi
- Graffiti Wall: 7.6 mi
- Robert Frost: 8.8 mi
- Eusebio, "The Spirit of Soccer": 9.1 mi
- Quinnipiac: 10.0 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 10.1 mi
- Indian Leap: 9.4 mi
- Titans Piazza: 10.3 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 11.9 mi
- Roaring Falls: 15.9 mi
- Overlook: 17.3 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 8.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 10.8 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 10.9 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 11.3 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 11.4 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 13.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.8 mi
- Picnic: 24.1 mi
- Rd: 14.4 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 14.5 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 14.5 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 18.6 mi
- Cascade: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Parsons Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lincoln | NNW 347° | 375 m | 6.1 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 357° | 371 m | 7.5 mi |
| Colonels Mountain | ESE 109° | 362 m | 8.9 mi |
| East Hill | N 3° | 338 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mount Norwottock | WNW 288° | 337 m | 6.1 mi |
| Prescott Hill | NNE 16° | 336 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NNE 19° | 335 m | 9.4 mi |
| Juckett Hill | NNE 17° | 327 m | 3.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:35 | 16:21 |
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 | 24 | 25 | 34 | 45 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belchertown, 3 mi away.
- pitch pine30 obs
- winged euonymus23 obs
- Painted Turtle16 obs
- striped wintergreen15 obs
- American chestnut12 obs
- Blue Dasher12 obs
- Canada Goose11 obs
- garlic mustard11 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/29914995
Day trips start here
- Ludlow · 9 mi
- South Hadley · 9 mi
- Amherst · 10 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 10 mi
- Hadley · 11 mi
- Northampton · 12 mi
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