Thorndike Field
Thorndike Field is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Whipple Hill stands 110 m to the northwest, 3.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Magnolia Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 0.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 0.6 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 5.3 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 24.2 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 5 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 25 mi
- Eagle Rock · 27 mi
- Lookout Point · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Magnolia Park: 0.1 mi
- Alewife Linear Park: 0.5 mi
- Waldo Park: 0.6 mi
- Crosby School Park: 0.6 mi
- Clarendon Avenue Playground: 0.6 mi
- Boston: 0.2 mi
- My Boys: 1.2 mi
- Robbins Memorial Flagstaff: 1.3 mi
- Jumbo Statue: 1.4 mi
- The Cannon: 1.4 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.4 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.4 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 0.5 mi
- Cooke's Hollow: 1.3 mi
- Hill's Hill: 2.1 mi
- Site of Fitchburg Railroad Hill Crossing Depot: 0.7 mi
- Teeven Memorial Circle: 0.8 mi
- Cambridge Olympians: 0.9 mi
- Brodette Memorial Circle: 0.9 mi
- Stephen Edward Conley: 1.0 mi
- Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging: 0.8 mi
- Cyrus Dallin Art Museum: 1.2 mi
- Smith Museum Archives: 1.3 mi
- Jason Russell House: 1.3 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 1.6 mi
- Clarendon Hill: 1.0 mi
- Walnut Hill: 1.4 mi
- Powder House Hill: 1.5 mi
- Spring Hill: 2.0 mi
- Spring Hill: 2.0 mi
- Shawn Megan Memorial Garden: 1.0 mi
- Tufts Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Bikeway Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Alex's Place: 1.4 mi
- Native Pollinator Garden: 1.6 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 1.3 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 1.3 mi
- Harvard Square: 2.3 mi
- Bowman Tavern: 3.9 mi
- Pickerel Rock: 4.1 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 3.7 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 5.9 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 7.8 mi
- Revere Beach: 8.2 mi
- Short Beach: 8.4 mi
- Crag 1: 4.4 mi
- Lunch Wall: 5.1 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 5.3 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 5.3 mi
- Lower Cliff: 5.4 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Site 4: 5.7 mi
- Valley Shelter: 5.7 mi
- Picnic Site 2: 5.7 mi
- Picnic Site 3: 5.7 mi
- Boathouse: 13.9 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.9 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.9 mi
- Rainshed: 13.9 mi
- Boston Light: 13.9 mi
- Quarry Spring: 3.2 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 13.8 mi
- Mystery Spring: 18.4 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 4.6 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 24.9 mi
- Cascade Falls: 4.7 mi
- Rock Falls: 15.6 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 17.6 mi
- Haywardville: 5.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.0 miles of Thorndike Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple Hill | NW 326° | 110 m | 3.5 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 328° | 107 m | 2.7 mi |
| Zion Hill | NNW 335° | 107 m | 4.2 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NNW 342° | 105 m | 3.3 mi |
| Mount Independence | WNW 301° | 101 m | 4.1 mi |
| Waban Hill | SSW 200° | 98 m | 4.4 mi |
| Mount Gilboa | NW 315° | 95 m | 2.8 mi |
| Cairn Hill | NE 44° | 92 m | 4.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
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, 7 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,913 obs
- Western Honey Bee1,658 obs
- Mallard869 obs
- American Robin834 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee814 obs
- Eastern Cottontail694 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle599 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel592 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/29830652
Day trips start here
- Arlington · 1 mi
- Cambridge · 2 mi
- Medford · 2 mi
- Somerville · 2 mi
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 3 mi
- Watertown · 3 mi
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