Lake Tashmoo Town Beach

Lake Tashmoo Town Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Wood Island, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 21 miles off.
The story
Beach in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49321721, matched on coordinates and name (96 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 21.0 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Owen Park: 1.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 1.9 mi
- Boch Park: 1.9 mi
- Valley Park: 2.5 mi
- Oriental Park: 3.1 mi
- Pilot Hill: 1.0 mi
- Tashmoo Hill: 1.7 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 3.4 mi
- Nobska Hill: 3.6 mi
- Mount Sod: 4.0 mi
- Tisbury Town Beach: 1.7 mi
- Owen Park Beach: 1.7 mi
- Lamberts Cove Beach: 2.3 mi
- Eastville Beach: 2.4 mi
- Doug's Cove: 2.6 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 3.6 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 4.0 mi
- War Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Woods Holl: 4.4 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 6.0 mi
- Wood Island: 0.3 mi
- Phillips Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Thompson Land: 0.7 mi
- Pilot Hill Farm: 0.9 mi
- Tashmoo Farm: 1.1 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 1.7 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 2.1 mi
- Cottage Museum: 3.7 mi
- Mariposa Museum: 3.9 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 4.3 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 3.9 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 4.4 mi
- The Liberté: 5.4 mi
- Polly Hill Arboretum: 5.5 mi
- Big Bridge: 5.6 mi
- Husselton Head: 1.9 mi
- Makonikey Head: 1.9 mi
- North Head: 2.3 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 3.9 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 4.2 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 4.6 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 5.2 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 6.1 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 14.7 mi
- Rotch- Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum: 19.0 mi
- Helen Keller: 4.5 mi
- Whale Tail: 4.5 mi
- Rachel Carson: 4.5 mi
- Buddha: 9.8 mi
- Tree of Bike: 13.2 mi
- West Chop Light: 1.9 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 3.6 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 16.4 mi
- truck pull-off: 20.3 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 21.7 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 23.3 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 19.4 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.5 mi
- Crystal Spring: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.7 miles of Lake Tashmoo Town Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Hill | SW 216° | 95 m | 9.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 12° | 93 m | 17.0 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | NNE 14° | 82 m | 20.4 mi |
| Avery Hill | NNE 12° | 80 m | 18.7 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SW 221° | 78 m | 9.2 mi |
| Discovery Hill | NNE 25° | 77 m | 19.7 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | N 9° | 71 m | 13.5 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SW 220° | 68 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:39 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:05 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:32 | 16:16 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 5 mi away.
Mean tidal range 1.59 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station VINEYARD HAVEN, VINEYARD HVN HBR, MA, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/9759179314
Day trips start here
- Mattapoisett · 16 mi
- SouthCoast · 16 mi
- Marion · 17 mi
- Dartmouth · 20 mi
- New Bedford · 20 mi
- Rochester · 21 mi
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