Gooseberry Beach
Gooseberry Beach is a beach in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Shrub Hill stands 125 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Hazard Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 3.6 miles off.
The story
Gooseberry Beach is a beach located in Newport, Rhode Island off Ocean Drive. It is a private beach, but also open to the public. The beach is located between Bailey's Beach and Hazard's Beach. Gooseberry itself is nestled in a sort of cove, protected by a spit of land and several large boulders roughly 75 metres offshore at high tide, no more than 50 at low tide.
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Wikidata Q5584121, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 3.6 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 2.1 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 11.9 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 12.9 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 20 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Belcourt of Newport: 0.8 mi
- Marble House: 0.9 mi
- Rough Point Museum: 0.9 mi
- Rosecliff Mansion: 1.0 mi
- National Museum of American Illustration: 1.1 mi
- Ballard Park: 0.5 mi
- Murphy Field: 0.6 mi
- Rovensky Park: 0.8 mi
- Spencer Park: 1.1 mi
- King Park: 1.2 mi
- USS Bennington Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Fort Adams: 1.5 mi
- EgyptAir Flight 990 Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Portuguese Discovery Monument: 1.8 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 2.1 mi
- Castle Hill: 2.0 mi
- Fort Wetherill: 2.2 mi
- Bliss Hill: 3.5 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 3.5 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.6 mi
- Hazard Beach: 0.1 mi
- Bailey Beach: 0.5 mi
- Rejects Beach: 0.6 mi
- Belmont Beach: 1.2 mi
- King Park Beach: 1.2 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 0.9 mi
- Rough Point Mansion: 0.9 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 1.3 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 1.7 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 1.7 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 1.2 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 1.9 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 1.9 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 8.4 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 10.7 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 2.8 mi
- Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve: 4.3 mi
- Wilbour Woods: 7.9 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 8.1 mi
- High Hill Point: 8.2 mi
- The Blue Garden: 0.8 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 7.8 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 8.4 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 10.8 mi
- Florence Nightingale Memorial Garden: 11.0 mi
- Marys Seat: 2.1 mi
- Rams Head: 2.1 mi
- The Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Lion Head: 3.6 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 13.4 mi
- Beavertail Light: 4.1 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 4.1 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 23.6 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 24.3 mi
- Block Island Southeast Light: 24.3 mi
- Big Beach: 17.0 mi
- Little Beach: 17.3 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 18.8 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 18.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.2 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 21.5 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 21.7 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 7.0 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 14.7 mi
- Factory Pond: 15.2 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 15.1 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 15.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Gooseberry Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shrub Hill | NW 307° | 125 m | 15.4 mi |
| Yorker Hill | WNW 292° | 98 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WNW 285° | 97 m | 12.3 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 27° | 95 m | 14.9 mi |
| Sherman Hill | WNW 287° | 88 m | 10.4 mi |
| Slate Hill | NNE 28° | 87 m | 6.3 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 272° | 78 m | 11.2 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 298° | 75 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:35 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport Rose, 3 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Castle Hill, RI, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357257785
Day trips start here
- Brenton Point State Park · 2 mi
- Newport · 2 mi
- Middletown · 4 mi
- Dutch Island · 5 mi
- Jamestown · 5 mi
- Narragansett · 7 mi
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