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Flynns Beach

Flynns Beach from directly overhead

Flynns Beach is a beach in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 120 m. Wood Hill stands 277 m to the west-northwest, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Spring Lake Beach, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Great and Breakneck Hill Roads passes 12 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
120 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.98176, -71.66118

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Spring Lake Beach: 0.3 mi
  • Spring Lake Beach: 0.3 mi
  • Spring Lake Beach: 0.4 mi
  • Black Hut State Management Area: 0.5 mi
  • Black Hut State Management Area: 0.7 mi
Parks
  • Harrisville Fishing Area: 1.2 mi
  • Firefighter's Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
  • Burrillville Town Common: 1.4 mi
  • Hauser Field: 2.8 mi
  • Granite Mill Park: 2.8 mi
Historic sites
  • Oakland Mill: 1.8 mi
  • Crash Site Monument: 6.2 mi
  • Six Toes trail marker: 6.3 mi
  • Taft - Main House: 7.4 mi
  • Bryant Archway: 7.6 mi
Peaks
Artworks
  • Statue of Hachikō: 7.7 mi
  • Statue: 13.0 mi
  • Veritas Eternaliter Juvenis (truth is eternally young): 14.9 mi
  • McGlynn Sculpture Court: 15.2 mi
  • Monsignor Cavallaro: 16.3 mi
Attractions
  • Fat Man's Misery: 10.5 mi
  • Devil's Corncrib: 10.5 mi
  • Cumberlandite: 10.6 mi
  • Crazy Corners: 12.9 mi
  • Teetering Rock: 15.5 mi
Museums: 56
Beaches: 30
Gardens: 26
  • Eric J. Cook Memorial Garden: 8.6 mi
  • Janet Colby Memorial Garden: 8.6 mi
  • Rain Gardens: 13.6 mi
  • Manton Bend Community Garden: 15.7 mi
  • Garden of Heroes: 16.4 mi
Picnic sites: 22
  • Site #36: 12.6 mi
  • 1: 17.7 mi
  • 36: 17.8 mi
  • 2: 17.8 mi
  • 16-34: 17.8 mi
Cliffs: 14
Waterfalls: 6
  • Cascade Brook Falls: 8.5 mi
  • Ponogansett Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Cargill Falls: 13.6 mi
  • Spencer Rock Waterfall: 20.3 mi
  • Payne's Pond Falls: 24.7 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Thirsty Beaver: 9.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 11.4 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 11.5 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.1 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 19.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Roger Williams Spring: 16.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Flynns Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wood HillWNW 300°277 m9.2 mi
Durfee HillSW 214°244 m7.5 mi
Whites HillSW 219°240 m9.3 mi
Pine HillSW 216°235 m8.6 mi
Mount DanielsWNW 294°231 m7.9 mi
Benson MountainW 276°226 m7.0 mi
Wadkin HillNW 310°224 m6.6 mi
Chopmist HillS 183°223 m9.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2218:59
June solstice05:1219:4420:26
September equinox06:3518:0918:46
December solstice07:1215:3416:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283138495968747265534334
Precip in4.43.74.94.73.64.33.64.04.25.14.25.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woonsocket, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357264890

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