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Spectacle Ponds is a very beautiful lake in beautiful surroundings. One of the governing traits of the surroundings of Spectacle Ponds is Crosbys Hill, and there are some nice whitewater spots on Charles River. This lake is so wonderful. There are plenty of people from Boston-Cambridge-Quincy here at Spectacle Ponds, and visiting Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is just something you need to do if you haven't yet. Why not camp at Lorraine Park Campground
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Silver Lake Town Beach is a beach near Spectacle Ponds that you can visit; if you came for an overnight stay Wyman's Beach is a nice spot to camp. All the outdoors exciting stuff close to Spectacle Ponds will keep you coming back again and again. Very wonderful scenery and nice skiing is what you get at Bradford, and Renaissance Bedford Hotel is a great | |
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place to get some rest. Get yourself into a kayak and hit Concord River.
This lake is so wonderful. Lakes are such serene places, why not go to Fawn Lake close to Spectacle Ponds, and why not spend some time golfing at a close
by golf course like Pine Meadows Golf Club. Spectacle Ponds ordinarily gets a good deal of rainfall; the month of November is the wettest with most of the rain, and the driest month is February. Skiing at Blue Hills is one of those
things you just should do; since you're here, you could pop by Beaver Brook.
During the days of summer at Spectacle Ponds temperatures are ordinarily in the 80's while overnight lows are regularly in the 50's. Throughout the winter
this place gets highs in the 30's; night lows all through the winter for Spectacle Ponds tend to be in the 0's.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 42.51667
Longitude: -71.25
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Bradford, Massachusetts, 18 miles away
300 vertical feet |
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Blue Hills, Massachusetts, 20 miles away
309 vertical feet |
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McIntyre, New Hampshire, 28 miles away
300 vertical feet |
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Concord River, Middlesex CountyCounty, 7 miles away
Class III+(IV) - 1.5 miles long (Close to Lowell) |
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Charles River, Norfolk CountyCounty, 13 miles away
Class I - 0.1 miles long (Needham Rapids) |
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Assabet River, Middlesex/Worcester CountyCounty, 19 miles away
Class I-II - 1.5 miles long (Route 117 to Route 62) |
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Fawn Lake, Middlesex CountyCounty, 2 miles away |
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The Doubletree Hotel Boston-Bedford Glen, nestled on 24 wooded acres only 16 miles northwest of Downtown Boston just off the crossroads of I-95 and Route 3, is centrally located by the Middlesex towns...
