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West Newton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around West Newton

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
    Brandeis University

    Private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Boston College Law School

    Law school of Boston College

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Middlesex University

    University in Massachusetts, United States

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Waban station

    Light rail stop in Newton, Massachusetts

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lasell University

    Private university in Auburndale, Massachusetts, United States

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crystal Lake

    Lake in Newton, Massachusetts, United States

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rose Art Museum

    Art museum in Waltham, Massachusetts

    3 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    National Center for Jewish Film

    Motion picture archive, distributor, and resource center located on the campus of Brandeis University

    3 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hemlock Gorge Reservation

    State park in Massachusetts, USA

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Echo Bridge

    Bridge in Massachusetts, United States

    4 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.

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Getting to West Newton

Airports
Boston Logan (BOS), 19 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 71 km · Bradley (BDL), 128 km
Stations
Eliot station, 3.7 km · Newton Highlands station, 3.8 km · Newton Centre station, 4 km · Riverside station, 2.1 km · Woodland station, 2.1 km
  • Providence/Warwick → West Newton
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · $7–10
  • Portland → West Newton
    3504 km · quickest by air, 11h 54m · $480–720
  • Hartford → West Newton
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for West Newton

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 West Newton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Newton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    247 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    271 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,733 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,748 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,851 km

If you know how people move in West Newton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to West Newton

West Newton is 14 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Newton Centrevillage of Newton, Massachusetts, USA3.8 km
  • Newtonvillevillage in Massachusetts2.4 km
  • Nonantumhuman settlement in Massachusetts, United States of America2.9 km
  • Wabanvillage of Newton, Massachusetts, USA2.5 km
  • Newton Lower Fallsvillage in Massachusetts, USA2.9 km