That’s about 55 miles away as the crow flies.

Curvature?

Oh right I mean the earth is flat after all.

It's cool you can see it from there! Half the time the weather or air block the view even from Swampscott or Nahant.

Bingo!

(I don't know what else to say, I swear I'm not a flat earther!)

What kind of camera did you use? Was up there yesterday and only had my phone, so I couldn't get a picture to turn out. Was clearly visible with the naked eye though

I took this with the 10× zoom lens on my S22 Ultra, and then digitally zoomed in some more.

It was exceptionally clear today, could see the White Mountains too.

I used to work near the top of the old exchange building (53 state) and we could see it from our office on a clear day as well.

Lion turtles! Once when I had to go outside 495 one even gave me the power of water bending to keep me safe in the spirit wilds!

That's amazing. Crazy clear day

There’s nothing like getting your nads nocked

Where's that photo? 😁

Dang. Great shot!

There should be a crow icon on Google maps next to the car, person, train and bike.

Did you know beforehand you'd be able to get this shot today? Would love to give it a try, but I'm not sure what conditions to look for before attempting.

You can see Boston from there? I never knew!

Roughly speaking, because of the curvature of the earth standing at ground level, with perfect viewing conditions the average person can see the horizon as just about 3 miles.

Adding some height to your vantage point, 20 feet is about 6 miles. 70 feet is 11 miles. 400 feet is 26 miles. So being on a mountain that’s about 3000ft tall gives a sightline of 72 miles.

Boston is about 75 miles from the mountain so you can’t see any ground structures at all. The height of the taller buildings probably somewhere after the 6-8 floor or so is what’s being seen.

As a small edit: after driving into work today through downtown; I’d say the skyline we see this picture is more like building over 12 floors tall & up.

It’s turtles all the way down

I suspected I might be able to but wasn't certain. It's never very obvious so you have to look at the horizon in the right direction and squint a little.

This may be a dumb question, but why does it look like there are two groups of tall buildings with a gap in between? Which neighborhoods are we seeing?

You’re looking at the back bay neighborhood in between.

You can right click (desktop) or long press (mobile) and select "Measure Distance" to get distance as the crow flies :)

Downtown and Back Bay are what we're seeing. The gap is probably the rows of historic brownstones in between and the Common. This is due to air rights above the turnpike making it particularly attractive for developers to build large buildings in the Back Bay area.

Rumor had it in WW2 Nazis would climb to the top to report on ships coming and going in Boston.

Is you on that flimsy fire tower ?

I for one would not like my nads nocked

But there is nothing like it