{"id":4897,"date":"2013-10-17T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T18:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2015-12-28T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:29:13","slug":"defying-the-look-of-suburbia-at-noon-hill-in-medfield-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Defying the Look of Suburbia at Noon Hill in Medfield, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4899\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_4899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 730px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?attachment_id=4899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4899  \" alt=\"Pciture of summit at Noon Hill, Medfield MA\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1180006-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_4899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Walpole and Norfolk from Noon Hill in Medfield MA (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you enjoy easy hikes and amazing scenic views but don&#8217;t want to stray too far from the Boston area, Noon Hill in Medfield, Mass., peaks as a fantastic destination.<\/p>\n<p>A quick 30-minute hike on well-marked trails in a dense wooded setting ultimately gives way at 370 ft. to stunning views of rolling hills and open land in Walpole and Norfolk. Add a little foliage color in the fall and the scene looks more like Vermont than the suburbs between Boston and Providence, R.I. Noon Hill also features a path that meanders around beautiful Holt Pond as well as views of the Charles River &#8212; yes, that&#8217;s the same Charles River that we know so well in Boston and Cambridge! \u00a0This special Trustees land links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/baycircuit.org\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bay Circuit Trail<\/a> &#8212; extending through 34 towns in eastern Massachusetts &#8212; thus offering additional scenic splendor.<\/p>\n<p>Noon Hill is the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Trustees of Reservations<\/a> property that I have fallen in love with in the past week &#8212; the first being <a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=4879\" target=\"_blank\">World&#8217;s End in Hingham<\/a>. We can hardly wait to explore more of these publicly accessible lands that the Trustees have saved from potential development!<\/p>\n<p><em>Admission is free. Noon Hill is located on Noon Hill Rd., just off Causeway St. in Medfield. For more information, log onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrustees.org\/places-to-visit\/greater-boston\/noon-hill.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Trustees Noon Hill page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4898\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_4898\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 730px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?attachment_id=4898\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4898 \" alt=\"Picture of Noon Hill, Medfield MA\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/P1180013-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"730\" height=\"530\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_4898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noon Hill has very little in common with typical suburban Boston (photo by Eric)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoy easy hikes and amazing scenic views but don&#8217;t want to stray too far from the Boston area, Noon Hill in Medfield, Mass., peaks as a fantastic destination. A quick 30-minute hike on well-marked trails in a dense wooded setting ultimately gives way at 370 ft. to stunning views of rolling hills and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,283,2436,275,268],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}