Beach · Massachusetts

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.

About

The story

beach in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States

Wikidata Q49321721, matched on coordinates and name (96 m apart).

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 0 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.46724, -70.63195

21.0 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Peaks

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

Parks

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

Beaches

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

Historic sites50

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

Museums39

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

Attractions26

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

Cliffs20

Gardens17

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

Artworks12

Helen Keller: 4.5 mi
Whale Tail: 4.5 mi
Rachel Carson: 4.5 mi
Whale Tail: 8.3 mi
Buddha: 9.8 mi

Lighthouses7

Rest areas4

truck pull-off: 20.3 mi
truck pull-off: 20.3 mi
Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 21.7 mi
Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 23.3 mi

Picnic sites2

Bourne Recreation Area: 19.4 mi
Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.5 mi

Springs1

Crystal Spring: 18.2 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.7 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°	94.8 m	9.4 mi
Pine Hill	NNE 12°	93 m	17.0 mi
Telegraph Hill	NNE 22°	85 m	19.9 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

Conditions

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.

Tides

Mean tidal range 1.59 ft at the nearest NOAA station.

NOAA CO-OPS station VINEYARD HAVEN, VINEYARD HVN HBR, MA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/9759179314

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