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Great Blue Hill is a hill of 635 feet (194 m) located within the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Randolph and Canton, Massachusetts, about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Boston. It is the highest point in Norfolk County and the Greater Boston area.
Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, is home to 585 completed high-rises, [1] 37 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The city's skyscrapers and high-rises are concentrated along the roughly 2.5 mile High Spine , which runs from the Back Bay to the Financial District and West End ...
Wattaquadock Hill is the highest peak between Boston and Mount Wachusett and the highest in Bolton, followed closely by Vaughn Hill. [2] On the hill are many hiking trails near pine forests, streams, a large pond with a beaver dam, and a kettle hole bog. The hill may be accessed via the Welch Pond Trail Head on Wattaquadock Hill Road and there ...
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. [1] [2] [3] It rises to a height of 330 feet (101m) above sea level. [4]
The list of tallest buildings in Massachusetts is divided into two lists: List of tallest buildings in Boston; List of tallest buildings in Massachusetts, exclusive of Boston; Note: Many of the tallest buildings in the U.S. state of Massachusetts are located in its capital, Boston. There is also: List of tallest buildings in Cambridge ...
This is a list of the 25 tallest buildings in the U.S. state of Massachusetts outside of Boston, its capital and largest city. The U.S state of Massachusetts is a New England State north of New York and shares its border with Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. [ 1 ]
Mount Wachusett and flat environs. Mount Wachusett is a (formerly) glaciated monadnock: a single mountain on a relatively flat landscape.Glacial activity that shaped the mountain can be seen at Balance Rock on the northeast side of the mountain: two large boulders were stacked one on top of each other by moving glaciers thousands of years ago.
To be included on the list, a place needs to be an incorporated municipality (i.e. a city, town, or village) and it needs to be at an elevation of 3,000 feet (914 m) or higher. In the United States, settlements above 3,000 feet are found primarily on the High Plains , in the Rocky Mountains , and in Western North Carolina .