Waltham
Worth seeing in and around Waltham
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.
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- 04Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
U.S. House district in eastern Massachusetts
5.7 km · Wikipedia - 05
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- 10National Center for Jewish Film
Motion picture archive, distributor, and resource center located on the campus of Brandeis University
1.9 km · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Waltham
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 19 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 74 km · Bradley (BDL), 129 km
- Stations
- Riverside station, 4.6 km · Woodland station, 4.9 km · Silver Hill station, 5.8 km · Auburndale station, 3.6 km · Brandeis/Roberts station, 2.6 km
- Providence/Warwick → Waltham77 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · $7–10
- Portland → Waltham4062 km · quickest by air, 9h 25m · $470–720
- Hartford → Waltham138 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · $12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Waltham
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Waltham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Charles River Bike Path is a mostly off-road path that runs from Newton and Waltham east through Watertown, Boston, and Cambridge along both banks of the Charles River.
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Next door to Waltham
Waltham is 15 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Newtonvillevillage in Massachusetts3.9 km
- Nonantumhuman settlement in Massachusetts, United States of America3.2 km
- Watertown Arsenalhistoric district in Watertown, Massachusetts5.9 km
- Wabanvillage of Newton, Massachusetts, USA5.5 km