Attraction · Maine
Fishway Viewing Area
Fishway Viewing Area is an attraction in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Whitten Hill stands 193 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is 250th Anniversary Park, a park 0.1 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Brunswick Hydroelectric Station
How to reach it
Coordinates43.92012, -69.96743
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- 250th Anniversary Park: 0.1 mi
- Androscoggin Riverwalk Park: 0.2 mi
- Swinging Bridge Park: 0.3 mi
- Mill Street Lot: 0.3 mi
- Pinette’s Landing: 0.4 mi
Gardens
- Senior Garden: 0.4 mi
- Saint Paul's Memorial Garden: 0.5 mi
- Pumpkin Garden: 0.9 mi
- Coffin Street Garden: 1.1 mi
- Bowdoin Organic Garden: 1.1 mi
Attractions: 60
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House: 0.6 mi
- Cripps Creek Disc Golf Course: 2.5 mi
- "The Final Charge" (Locked-horm Moose Display): 8.0 mi
- LL Bean Boot: 8.0 mi
- Desert of Maine: 10.3 mi
Historic sites
- Frances Caroline Chamberlain: 0.8 mi
- Joshua L. Chamberlain: 0.8 mi
- Robert P. Dunlap: 0.9 mi
- Bowdoin Civil War Monument: 0.9 mi
- Bowdoin War Memorial: 0.9 mi
Nature reserves
- Coombs Property: 1.3 mi
- Cow Island: 1.5 mi
- Coffin's Ice Pond: 1.6 mi
- Greater Commons: 2.4 mi
- Town Commons: 2.5 mi
Peaks
- Mount Ararat: 1.4 mi
- Rocky Hill: 2.6 mi
- Oak Hill: 3.6 mi
- Buttermilk Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Bald Rock: 4.8 mi
Museums: 52
- Pejepscot Historical Society: 0.5 mi
- Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum: 0.7 mi
- Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum: 0.9 mi
- Brunswick Naval Aviation Museum: 2.5 mi
- The Butterfly & Insect Museum: 7.1 mi
Beaches: 49
- Coffin Pond: 1.1 mi
- Thomas Point Beach: 4.2 mi
- Sea Cove Beach: 11.7 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 13.5 mi
- Spring Beach: 14.0 mi
Artworks: 42
- Holy Trinty: 0.5 mi
- Blessed Virgin Mary: 0.5 mi
- Joshua L. Chamberlain: 0.7 mi
- Polar Bear Statue: 0.9 mi
- The Lineman: 1.0 mi
Cliffs: 8
- Hockomock Head: 10.6 mi
- Morse Point: 15.4 mi
- The Bluff: 17.6 mi
- White Head Cliff: 22.0 mi
- The Cliffs: 22.1 mi
Lighthouses: 3
- Doubling Point Rear Range Light: 8.9 mi
- Doubling Point Front Range Light: 8.9 mi
- Bug Light: 22.6 mi
Waterfalls: 2
- First Falls: 13.4 mi
- Presumpscot Falls: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Fishway Viewing Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitten Hill | N 352° | 193 m | 12.7 mi |
| Bradbury Mountain | W 264° | 143 m | 10.8 mi |
| Robinson Mountain | NW 322° | 129 m | 13.1 mi |
| Tryon Mountain | W 268° | 119 m | 11.3 mi |
| Tate Hill | NNW 345° | 109 m | 5.4 mi |
| Cox Pinnacle | WNW 288° | 108 m | 5.0 mi |
| Marston Hill | W 260° | 108 m | 12.5 mi |
| Bibber Hill | W 267° | 105 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:44 | 18:14 | 18:52 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:43 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:01 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:18 | 16:06 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 23 | 32 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brunswick NAS, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/2832914834
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