Tufts Park
Tufts Park is a park in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Whipple Hill stands 110 m to the northwest, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Powder House Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 1.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 4.2 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 22.9 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 4 mi
- Eagle Rock · 26 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 26 mi
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Powder House Park: 0.4 mi
- Powderhouse Square: 0.4 mi
- Columbus Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
- Community Path: 0.5 mi
- Henry Hanson Park: 0.5 mi
- Powder House Hill: 0.4 mi
- Winter Hill: 0.7 mi
- Walnut Hill: 0.7 mi
- Spring Hill: 0.9 mi
- Clarendon Hill: 0.9 mi
- Native Pollinator Garden: 0.5 mi
- Alex's Place: 0.6 mi
- Tufts Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Bikeway Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Elly the Elephant: 0.5 mi
- George the Giraffe & Big Poppy: 0.5 mi
- Elfland: 0.6 mi
- Free Range Sculpture Garden: 0.6 mi
- The Cannon: 0.7 mi
- Mystic River Reservation: 0.7 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.7 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.7 mi
- Alewife Brook Parkway: 1.7 mi
- Cooke's Hollow: 2.5 mi
- Paul Revere Park: 0.7 mi
- Stephen Edward Conley: 0.8 mi
- President Obama Rose Garden: 0.9 mi
- Shapiro Family Plaza: 1.0 mi
- Watson's Corner: 1.0 mi
- Somerville Historical Museum: 1.1 mi
- Medford Historical Society: 1.2 mi
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House: 1.4 mi
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology: 1.6 mi
- Harvard Museum of Natural History: 1.6 mi
- Harvard Square: 2.0 mi
- Arlington Center Historic District: 2.6 mi
- Central Street Historical District: 2.6 mi
- Hikmat home: 2.7 mi
- Charles Riverboat Company: 2.8 mi
- Borggaard Beach: 4.0 mi
- Revere Beach: 6.4 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 6.5 mi
- Short Beach: 6.6 mi
- Revere Beach: 6.6 mi
- Crag 1: 3.0 mi
- Lookout Cliff: 4.7 mi
- Lunch Wall: 6.1 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 6.2 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 6.3 mi
- Pine Knoll: 6.7 mi
- Oak Lea: 6.8 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 6.9 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 7.3 mi
- Pinetops Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
- Boathouse: 12.2 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 12.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 12.3 mi
- Rainshed: 12.3 mi
- Boston Light: 12.3 mi
- Quarry Spring: 2.4 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 13.5 mi
- Mystery Spring: 19.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 3.4 mi
- Rock Falls: 15.0 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.4 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 3.5 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 13.0 mi
- Haywardville: 4.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 4.7 miles of Tufts Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whipple Hill | NW 306° | 110 m | 4.7 mi |
| Turkey Hill | WNW 303° | 107 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NW 317° | 105 m | 4.2 mi |
| Mount Gilboa | WNW 296° | 95 m | 4.2 mi |
| Cairn Hill | NNE 22° | 92 m | 3.2 mi |
| Wellington Hill | W 270° | 91 m | 4.2 mi |
| Bear Hill | N 1° | 91 m | 4.4 mi |
| Horn Pond Mountain | NNW 328° | 86 m | 4.7 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 | 06:32 | 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 | 30 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boston, 6 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee2,756 obs
- Western Honey Bee1,947 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee1,290 obs
- American Robin864 obs
- Eastern Cottontail770 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle767 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel735 obs
- House Sparrow696 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/29743756
Day trips start here
- Medford · 1 mi
- Somerville · 1 mi
- Cambridge · 2 mi
- Arlington · 3 mi
- Boston/Charlestown · 3 mi
- Everett · 3 mi
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