Birchhead Shore
Birchhead Shore is a beach in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Bernard Mountain stands 326 m to the east, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Hundred Acre Wood, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
What to expect
- Step-free access
- No
How to reach it
- 12.6 mi off the Acadia Scenic Byway
- 21.9 mi off the Schoodic National Scenic Byway, National
- 29.1 mi off the Blackwoods Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Hawk Watch · 17 mi
- Beehive Overlook · 19 mi
- Old Soaker Overlook · 19 mi
- Frenchman Bay Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Brooklin Recreation Field: 1.3 mi
- Bridge End Park: 6.5 mi
- Walker Pond Heritage Park: 6.6 mi
- Nature Area: 6.9 mi
- Pine Hill Nature Area: 7.0 mi
- Reach Beach: 5.6 mi
- Causeway Beach: 6.1 mi
- Lily Pond Beach: 7.8 mi
- Carrying Place Beach: 10.3 mi
- Back Beach: 11.2 mi
- High Head: 3.6 mi
- Steves Hill: 3.8 mi
- Caterpillar Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Conary Head: 5.3 mi
- Seven Star Hill: 5.6 mi
- Hundred Acre Wood: 0.9 mi
- Harriman Point Preserve: 1.7 mi
- McKenney Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Big Babson Island Preserve: 4.8 mi
- The Nub: 4.9 mi
- Sedgwick Brooklin Historical Society: 2.6 mi
- Jonathan Fisher House: 7.1 mi
- Seal Cove Auto Museum: 7.8 mi
- Salome Sellers House Museum: 10.2 mi
- Deer Isle Granite Museum: 11.6 mi
- Gull Ledges: 6.5 mi
- Lookout Ledge: 7.3 mi
- Beach Cliff: 11.0 mi
- Canada Cliff: 11.1 mi
- The Bluffs: 12.4 mi
- Yourcenar: 11.7 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light Station: 12.6 mi
- Castine Civil War Monument: 13.0 mi
- Store Foundation: 13.5 mi
- House Foundation: 13.6 mi
- Blue Hill Bay Light: 5.1 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light: 12.6 mi
- Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse: 13.2 mi
- Bear Island Light Station: 14.5 mi
- Baker Island Light: 18.5 mi
- High Hopes Lobster Boat: 15.0 mi
- The Bubble: 15.4 mi
- Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 18.4 mi
- Thunder Hole: 18.5 mi
- Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 18.6 mi
- Lurvey Spring: 11.3 mi
- Jesuit Spring: 12.3 mi
- Birch Spring: 14.3 mi
- Maple Spring: 14.4 mi
- Fern Spring: 14.5 mi
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 15.3 mi
- COA Community Garden: 17.8 mi
- Newlin Garden: 17.9 mi
- Wild Gardens of Acadia: 17.9 mi
- Beatrix Farrand Gardens: 17.9 mi
- Man O War Waterfall: 12.2 mi
- Hadlock Falls: 14.0 mi
- Duck Brook Waterfall: 17.1 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 18.8 mi
- Vinal Falls: 20.7 mi
- Water Street Mural: 17.5 mi
- Baxter The Lobster: 18.6 mi
- Before The Wind: 21.6 mi
- The Whale: 21.6 mi
- Penn Station Eagle: 22.4 mi
- Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- Thompson Island Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
- Cathedral Rock: 17.2 mi
- Long Cove: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Birchhead Shore. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Mountain | E 92° | 326 m | 9.4 mi |
| Mansell Mountain | E 90° | 289 m | 9.9 mi |
| Knight Nubble | E 91° | 283 m | 9.5 mi |
| Blue Hill Mountain | N 351° | 281 m | 8.9 mi |
| Little Notch | E 91° | 271 m | 9.4 mi |
| Norumbega Mountain | E 85° | 260 m | 13.2 mi |
| Beech Mountain | E 89° | 256 m | 10.7 mi |
| Western Mountain | E 90° | 246 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:38 | 18:08 | 18:47 |
| June solstice | 04:51 | 19:38 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:22 | 17:55 | 18:34 |
| December solstice | 07:08 | 15:11 | 15:59 |
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 | 20 | 22 | 31 | 42 | 53 | 61 | 67 | 67 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Surry, 14 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Center Harbor, ME, 3 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358226570
Day trips start here
- Acadia National Park · 13 mi
- Surry · 13 mi
- Ellsworth · 19 mi
- Orland · 20 mi
- Bucksport · 22 mi
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