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Craigville Beach

Craigville Beach from directly overhead

Craigville Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Beach, a beach less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 4.5 miles off.

The story

Craigville Beach is located on Nantucket Sound. It is located in Craigville (part of Centerville, Massachusetts) and is a very popular tourist hot spot on Cape Cod. Unlike many private Cape beaches which offer parking to residents only, Craigville is a public beach area, available to non-residents for a daily parking fee. In the summer, kite surfing is extremely popular. Craigville Beach is geologically contiguous with Covell's Beach to the east. The Covell's Beach parking lot is only open to Barnstable residents during peak times. The private Craigville Beach Association and The Beach Club flank the main public area. In Massachusetts, public property ends at the low tide line; only certain activities (not including recreational walking and sunbathing) are allowed by right between the low and high tide lines.

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Wikidata Q5181768, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
0 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.63206, -70.35641

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
  • Long Beach: 0.0 mi
  • Long Beach: 0.3 mi
  • Dowses Beach: 0.8 mi
  • Christian Camp Meeting Beach: 1.0 mi
  • Public Beach: 1.1 mi
Parks
  • Armstrong-Kelley Park: 1.3 mi
  • Osterville Library Park: 1.5 mi
  • Aaron S. Crosby Park: 1.6 mi
  • Mothers Park: 1.6 mi
  • Playground/Field: 2.1 mi
Peaks
  • Sunset Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Shootflying Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Clay Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Cobbs Hill: 5.7 mi
  • Scorton Hill: 6.4 mi
Museums: 45
  • Centerville Historical Museum: 1.2 mi
  • Zion Union Heritage Museum: 3.5 mi
  • Guyer Barn: 4.0 mi
  • Cape Cod Maritime Museum: 4.2 mi
  • Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit: 4.4 mi
Historic sites: 44
  • Railroad Wharf: 3.5 mi
  • Sachem Iyanough: 4.0 mi
  • American Legion Post 206: 4.0 mi
  • Korean War Memorial: 4.1 mi
  • John F Kennedy Memorial: 4.1 mi
Attractions: 23
  • Marstons Mills Herring Run: 3.3 mi
  • Wackenhammer's Clockwork Arcade and Carousel: 3.7 mi
  • Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 4.5 mi
  • Putter's Paradise: 5.1 mi
  • Jump On Us!: 5.5 mi
Cliffs: 17
Gardens: 14
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Mashpee Community Garden: 6.7 mi
  • Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 9.7 mi
  • McInnes Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 11.0 mi
Artworks: 12
Rest areas: 11
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 5.1 mi
  • truck pull-off: 5.7 mi
  • truck pull-off: 5.9 mi
  • truck pull-off: 7.1 mi
  • truck pull-off: 9.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Picnic sites: 4
  • Bourne Recreation Area: 14.3 mi
  • Herring Run Recreational Area: 14.4 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 18.8 mi
  • Picnick Area: 19.5 mi
Springs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.8 miles of Craigville Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillENE 62°165 m18.7 mi
Pine HillWNW 296°93 m12.0 mi
Telegraph HillNW 316°85 m9.7 mi
Flatrock HillNW 312°82 m12.6 mi
Avery HillWNW 304°80 m12.5 mi
Discovery HillNW 318°77 m8.6 mi
Deer Horn HillW 279°71 m12.2 mi
Discovery HillNW 311°61 m13.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4618:1718:54
June solstice05:0819:3820:20
September equinox06:2918:0418:41
December solstice07:0615:3016:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313237465564717064544536
Precip in3.73.64.84.03.43.32.83.23.84.34.14.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hyannis, 4 mi away.

Mean tidal range 3.19 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station Hyannis Port, MA, 3 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358274772

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