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Savin Hill Park

Savin Hill Park from directly overhead

Savin Hill Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 20 m. Chickatawbut Hill stands 156 m to the south, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Savin Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 2.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.31086, -71.04842

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Savin Hill: 0.1 mi
  • Meeting House Hill: 0.7 mi
  • Popes Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Telegraph Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Mount Bowdoin: 1.5 mi
Historic sites
Parks
  • McConnell Park: 0.3 mi
  • Savin Hill and Malibu Beach: 0.3 mi
  • UMass Harborwalk: 0.5 mi
  • Deer Street Park: 0.5 mi
  • Quad: 0.5 mi
Artworks
Gardens
  • Columbia Point Community Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Monadnock Street Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Nonquit Street Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Magnolia & Woodford Streets Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Audrey Jacobs Memorial Community Garden: 1.4 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Beaches
Attractions
  • Wildebeest: 2.0 mi
  • Hartmann's Mountain Zebra: 2.0 mi
  • African Lion: 2.1 mi
  • Goat: 2.1 mi
  • Masai Giraffe: 2.1 mi
Cliffs: 48
Picnic sites: 22
Rest areas: 6
  • Commissioners Landing: 3.5 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 8.6 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 19.1 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 19.1 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 24.0 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 7.1 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 9.1 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock Falls: 8.0 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 9.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.2 miles of Savin Hill Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chickatawbut HillS 186°156 m6.2 mi
Nahanton HillS 184°145 m6.0 mi
Kitchamakin HillS 184°133 m6.1 mi
Wampatuck HillS 178°103 m5.6 mi
Single Tree HillW 279°100 m5.4 mi
Fox HillS 181°95 m5.5 mi
Bellevue HillWSW 244°94 m5.4 mi
Mount WalleyW 268°91 m4.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0819:4220:25
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:1115:3016:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968747365534334
Precip in3.93.64.54.33.64.23.53.74.05.04.05.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Canada Goose530 obs
  • common mugwort418 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail378 obs
  • Rock Pigeon349 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee341 obs
  • tree-of-heaven293 obs
  • American Herring Gull279 obs
  • American Robin262 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/505740143

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