Dedham

Worth seeing in and around Dedham

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   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. It is the highest point in Norfolk County, and the Greater Boston area, and the tallest of the 22 hills that make up the Blue Hills chain in the Blue Hills Reservation.

   5.3 km · hill · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory

   The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts is the foremost structure associated with the history of weather observations in the United States. Located atop Great Blue Hill about 10 miles south of Boston, Massachusetts, it is home to the oldest continuous weather record in North America, and was the location of the earliest kite soundings of the atmosphere in North America in the 1890s, as well as the development of the radiosonde in the 1930s.

   5.4 km · Weather observatory in Milton, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Fairbanks House

   The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace and their family.

   200 m · historic house in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cutler Park

   Cutler Park Reservation is a state-owned nature preserve and public recreation area that lies between Route 128/I-95 and the Charles River in Needham, Massachusetts. The state park's 772 acres contain the largest remaining freshwater marsh on the middle Charles River.

   5.3 km · state park in Massachusetts · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Norfolk County Courthouse

   The Norfolk County Courthouse, also known as the William D. Delahunt Courthouse, is a National Historic Landmark at 650 High Street in Dedham, Massachusetts. It currently houses the Norfolk County Superior Court.

   1.1 km · National Historic Landmark in Dedham, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St. Mary's Church

   St. Mary of the Assumption Church (commonly referred to as St.

   700 m · church in Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Great Blue Hill Observation Tower

   The Great Blue Hill Observation Tower, known locally as Eliot Tower, is a historic stone tower located near the summit of Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts. The tower was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps and is a good example of the rustic architecture CCC projects were known for.

   5.5 km · observation tower in Milton, United States of America · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Mother Brook

   Mother Brook is an artificial waterway in Dedham, and Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and the first man-made canal in the present-day United States. Constructed in 1639 by settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it diverts water from the Charles River to the Neponset River and was originally designed to power water mills.

   3.8 km · canal in Norfolk and Suffolk counties, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Stony Brook Reservation

   Stony Brook Reservation is a woodland park in Boston and Dedham, Massachusetts, a unit of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, part of the state park system of Massachusetts. It was established in 1894 as one of the five original reservations created by the Metropolitan Park Commission.

   3.1 km · state park in Boston at the headwaters of Stony Brook · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Parson Barnard House

    The Parson Barnard House is a historic late-First Period house at 179 Osgood Street in North Andover, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1715 by Parson Thomas Barnard after his previous house burned down.

    5.7 km · Museum in Massachusetts · Wikipedia

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Getting to Dedham

Airports

Boston Logan (BOS), 19 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 61 km · Bradley (BDL), 130 km

Stations

Norwood Memorial Airport, 5.7 km · Dedham Corporate Center station, 1.8 km · Hersey station, 5.5 km · Norwood Depot, 5.6 km · Roslindale Village station, 5.9 km

• Providence/Warwick → Dedham

  62 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $6–8
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• Portland → Dedham

  4072 km · quickest by air, 9h 25m · $470–720
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• Hartford → Dedham

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $13–18
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