Great Blue Hill
Great Blue Hill is a hill of 635 feet located within the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Randolph and Canton, Massachusetts, about 10 miles south of downtown Boston.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Swampyank, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 600 feet
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Big Blue Mountain”, “Blue Hill”, and “The Blue Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Hills Ski Area and Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate.
Blue Hills Ski Area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Blue Hills Ski Area is located on the western face of Great Blue Hill in Canton, Massachusetts. This land is part of the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate
Nature reserve
Photo: JoeyBagODonuts, CC BY 3.0.
The Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate is a nonprofit country house and garden ground museum in Canton, Massachusetts. It is operated by The Trustees of Reservations. The grounds are open every day, sunrise to sunset, without charge.
Thacher Montessori School
School
Thacher Montessori School is an independent day school located in Milton, Massachusetts for toddlers through 8th graders. Thacher Montessori is accredited by the Association of Independent Schools of New England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Readville and Hyde Park.
Readville
Neighborhood
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Readville is part of the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. Readville's ZIP Code is 02136. It was called Dedham Low Plains from 1655 until it was renamed after James Read, the owner of the Dedham Manufacturing Company along Mother Brook, in 1847.
Hyde Park
Suburb
Photo: Biruitorul, Public domain.
Hyde Park is the southernmost neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Situated 7.9 miles south of downtown Boston, it is home to a diverse range of people, housing types and social groups.
Milton
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Milton is an immediate southern suburb of Boston. The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census.
Great Blue Hill
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Town of Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.21185° or 42° 12′ 43″ northLongitude
-71.11416° or 71° 6′ 51″ westElevation
600 feet (183 metres)Open location code
87JC6V6P+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 358273119OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Great Blue Hill” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Great Blue Hill”
- Cebuano: “Great Blue Hill”
- Chinese: “大藍山”
- Dutch: “Great Blue Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل جريات بلو هيل”
- French: “Great Blue Hill”
- German: “Great Blue Hill”
- Japanese: “グレート・ブルー・ヒル”
- Ladin: “Great Blue Hill”
- Portuguese: “Great blue hill”
- Portuguese: “Great Blue Hill”
- Urdu: “گریٹ بلیو ہل”
- Uzbek: “Buyuk koʻk togʻ”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ponkapoag and Brush Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eliot Tower and Path Continues.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Great Blue Hill”. Photo: Swampyank, Public domain.