Mount Misery
Mount Misery rises to 80 m in Massachusetts. Prospect Hill stands 135 m to the east-southeast, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Scout Island, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 2.6 miles off.
The story
Mount Misery is a 284-foot hill and public conservation land in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Route 117 (Great Road) and on the Bay Circuit Trail near the Sudbury River. Containing 227 acres (92 ha), Mount Misery is the largest piece of conservation land in the town and contains seven miles of public hiking trails through hills, wetlands and agricultural fields.
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Wikidata Q49053646, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 80 m
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 14.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 28.8 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 28.6 mi off the The Apple Way of Londonderry
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 14 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 25 mi
- Lookout Point · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Codman Estate: 0.8 mi
- Codman House Museum: 0.8 mi
- Gropius House: 1.1 mi
- Thoreau Cabin replica: 1.5 mi
- Ralph Waldo Emerson House: 2.6 mi
- Deborah Birt Memorial Park Lincoln Woods: 1.0 mi
- Oxbow Meadows: 1.0 mi
- Codman Community Farm: 1.0 mi
- Sculpture park: 1.2 mi
- Peace Garden: 1.2 mi
- Last Out: 1.8 mi
- Ferma: 1.8 mi
- Archadian Gyro: 1.9 mi
- Decordova Ball: 1.9 mi
- Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories: 1.9 mi
- Scout Island: 0.6 mi
- Baker Bridge North: 1.0 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mass Audubon Headquarters: 1.2 mi
- Adams Land: 1.3 mi
- Adams: 1.3 mi
- Brister Freeman Homestead Site Marker: 1.8 mi
- Reflection: 1.9 mi
- Aureet Bar-Yam: 2.1 mi
- ELISHA GARFIELD HOMESTEAD: 2.3 mi
- Stow Town Beach: 7.9 mi
- Morses Pond Beach: 8.7 mi
- Learned Pond Beach: 9.8 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 9.9 mi
- Memorial Beach: 9.9 mi
- Italinate garden: 0.8 mi
- People For Pollinators: 1.5 mi
- Native Plant Garden: 1.5 mi
- Conantum Community Gardens: 1.7 mi
- Planted Canoe: 1.9 mi
- Hathaway Hill: 1.2 mi
- Fairhaven Hill: 1.2 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.5 mi
- Urato Farm: 1.5 mi
- Round Hill: 2.2 mi
- Emerson's Cliff: 1.1 mi
- Thoreau Cabin site: 1.5 mi
- Ponyhenge: 1.6 mi
- Thoreau Bean Field: 1.6 mi
- Captain Miles House: 2.1 mi
- Farmers Cliff: 4.4 mi
- Bloody Bluff: 4.6 mi
- Falling Rock Ridge: 7.3 mi
- Lunch Wall: 10.4 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 10.8 mi
- Picnic Site 2: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Site 3: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Site 1: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Site 4: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Site 6: 5.2 mi
- Boathouse: 24.1 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 24.1 mi
- Oil Shed: 24.1 mi
- Rainshed: 24.1 mi
- Boston Light: 24.2 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 14.6 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 17.0 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 19.4 mi
- Salem Rest Area and Welcome Center: 24.0 mi
- Mystery Spring: 11.5 mi
- Quarry Spring: 12.4 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 20.4 mi
- Cascade Falls: 13.9 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 14.6 mi
- Rock Falls: 23.3 mi
- Haywardville: 13.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.6 miles of Mount Misery. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Hill | ESE 115° | 135 m | 5.2 mi |
| Little Prospect | ESE 118° | 133 m | 5.3 mi |
| Reeves Hill | S 183° | 122 m | 5.2 mi |
| Goodman Hill | SW 224° | 119 m | 4.4 mi |
| Annursnac Hill | NNW 328° | 110 m | 4.7 mi |
| Loring Hill | ENE 77° | 109 m | 5.8 mi |
| Great Hill | WNW 301° | 109 m | 6.4 mi |
| Doublet Hill | SE 143° | 108 m | 6.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:44 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:31 | 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 | 29 | 37 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bedford Hanscom FLD, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358272450
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