Bellevue Hill
Bellevue Hill rises to 94 m in Massachusetts. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the south-southeast, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Bellevue Hill Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway runs past it.
The story
Bellevue Hill is a neighborhood in West Roxbury comprising the areas roughly between Lagrange Street, Centre Street, and the West Roxbury Parkway. Defined by its leafy streets and stately homes, Bellevue Hill is one of the most upscale neighborhoods outside of Boston's downtown core. Bellevue Hill is also the highest natural point in the city of Boston and Suffolk County. It rises to a height of 330 feet (101m) above sea level. On it lies the Bellevue Standpipe, which is on the Boston Register of Historic Places.
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Wikidata Q4883939, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 94 m
How to reach it
- On the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 9.1 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 29.4 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 6 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 17 mi
- Lookout Point · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bellevue Hill Park: 0.0 mi
- Billings Field: 0.7 mi
- Fallon Field: 0.9 mi
- Hillside Street Play Area: 1.0 mi
- Praught Field: 1.0 mi
- Bearberry Hill: 0.5 mi
- Monterey Hill: 0.9 mi
- Peaked Hill: 1.0 mi
- Mount Hope: 1.1 mi
- Weld Hill: 1.4 mi
- Monterey Hilltop Urban Wild: 1.0 mi
- Stony Brook Reservation: 1.2 mi
- Roslindale Wetlands: 1.3 mi
- Havey Beach: 1.6 mi
- Dell Ave Rock: 1.6 mi
- Bay State Model Railroad Museum: 1.0 mi
- Larz Anderson Auto Museum: 2.4 mi
- Fairbanks House: 2.6 mi
- Loring-Greenough House: 2.7 mi
- Longyear Museum: 3.4 mi
- Historic Springhouse: 1.8 mi
- Bishop Riley: 1.9 mi
- Ghost Bike for Joseph Lee Alan Pielmeier: 2.3 mi
- The Castle: 2.4 mi
- Francis D. Martini Memorial Shell: 2.5 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.1 mi
- Leland Street Cooperative Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bradley Rosaceous Collection: 2.2 mi
- Flower Garden: 2.5 mi
- Minton Stable Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Drift by Mary Bonina: 3.0 mi
- Taino Mural: 3.5 mi
- Beauty Master Mural: 3.6 mi
- Pimentel Market Mural: 3.7 mi
- Reach: 3.8 mi
- Jamaica Pond Bench: 3.1 mi
- Sam Adams Boston Brewery Tour: 3.4 mi
- Andean Condor: 3.4 mi
- Western Grey Kangaroo: 3.4 mi
- Emu: 3.4 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 4.5 mi
- Tenean Beach: 5.3 mi
- North Beach: 5.5 mi
- South Beach: 5.8 mi
- Powissett Beach: 6.0 mi
- The Alcove: 3.6 mi
- Upper Cliff: 3.6 mi
- Lower Cliff: 3.6 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 3.8 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 3.9 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 3.4 mi
- Oak Lea: 3.4 mi
- Pine Knoll: 3.5 mi
- Babcock Arboretum: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 9.3 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 4.1 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 6.7 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 19.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 20.4 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 21.5 mi
- Boathouse: 13.4 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.4 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.4 mi
- Boston Light: 13.4 mi
- Rainshed: 13.5 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 6.1 mi
- Quarry Spring: 11.2 mi
- Mystery Spring: 25.0 mi
- Rock Falls: 9.0 mi
- Cascade Falls: 12.2 mi
- Haywardville: 13.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.7 miles of Bellevue Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Blue Hill | SSE 161° | 193 m | 4.7 mi |
| Chickatawbut Hill | SE 132° | 156 m | 5.6 mi |
| Hancock Hill | SSE 148° | 155 m | 4.7 mi |
| Buck Hill | SE 141° | 151 m | 5.5 mi |
| Hemenway Hill | SSE 151° | 140 m | 4.6 mi |
| Tucker Hill | SE 146° | 133 m | 5.3 mi |
| Wolcott Hill | SSE 156° | 132 m | 4.7 mi |
| Houghton Hill | SSE 152° | 129 m | 5.0 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.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 612292 — Bellevue Hill, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358272747
Day trips start here
- Boston/Outer Neighborhoods · 1 mi
- Eastern Massachusetts · 1 mi
- Boston/Jamaica Plain-Mission Hill · 3 mi
- Dedham · 3 mi
- Boston/Roxbury · 4 mi
- Brookline · 4 mi
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