Old Garden Beach
Old Garden Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Mount Ann stands 78 m to the west-southwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is The Headlands, a park 0.2 miles away. Essex Coastal Scenic Byway passes 4.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 4.8 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
- 18.2 mi off the Coastal Byway
- 21.0 mi off the Independence Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Eagle Rock · 6 mi
- Wildlife Viewing Platform · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Headlands: 0.2 mi
- Star Island Park: 0.3 mi
- Harvey Park: 0.4 mi
- Inner Harbor Park: 0.4 mi
- Barletta Park: 0.5 mi
- High Rock: 1.3 mi
- Pool Hill: 1.4 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 1.5 mi
- Great Hill: 1.5 mi
- Nugent Boulders: 2.3 mi
- Town Conservation Land: 0.4 mi
- Kieran Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Waring Field: 0.6 mi
- Rowe Parcel: 0.7 mi
- Straitsmouth Island Wildlife Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Front Beach: 0.7 mi
- Back Beach: 0.9 mi
- Pebble Beach: 1.6 mi
- Cape Hedge Beach: 1.6 mi
- Long Beach: 2.0 mi
- James A. Babson Museum: 2.1 mi
- Cape Ann Museum: 4.1 mi
- Cape Ann Historical Museum: 4.1 mi
- Maritime Gloucester: 4.2 mi
- CAM Green: 4.2 mi
- The Paper House: 1.7 mi
- Whale's Jaw: 2.1 mi
- Peter's Pulpit: 2.3 mi
- Prosperity Follows Service: 2.6 mi
- If Work Stops Values Decay: 2.6 mi
- Solomon Jacobs Landing: 4.2 mi
- Coast Guard Aviation Monument: 4.6 mi
- Ten Pound Island Lighthouse: 4.6 mi
- Fishermens' Monument: 4.6 mi
- World War II Memorial: 4.9 mi
- Cold Frames: 8.8 mi
- Formal Garden: 9.0 mi
- Bushee Garden: 14.4 mi
- Range Light Sculpture Garden: 16.8 mi
- The Gentian Garden: 16.9 mi
- Fitz Hugh Lane: 4.2 mi
- Fishermen's Wives Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Winslow II: 16.3 mi
- Osprey: Pandion Haliaetus: 16.8 mi
- Sparrows: 16.9 mi
- The Headlands: 0.2 mi
- Brier Neck: 2.5 mi
- Bass Rocks: 3.2 mi
- Stage Head: 5.1 mi
- Coastal Bank Bluff: 8.8 mi
- Ramp: 2.0 mi
- Boathouse: 2.1 mi
- Utility Building: 2.1 mi
- Tram Way: 2.1 mi
- Cape Ann Light (Twin Lights): 2.1 mi
- I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 20.8 mi
- Seabrook Rest Area: 20.9 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 23.0 mi
- Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 23.3 mi
- Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 23.5 mi
- Rail Spring: 15.4 mi
- Lion's Spring: 22.7 mi
- Newbury Falls: 17.5 mi
- Hampton Falls: 21.9 mi
- Dogtown: 3.1 mi
- Pinetops Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Old Garden Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Ann | WSW 243° | 78 m | 7.0 mi |
| Turkey Hill | W 277° | 74 m | 13.2 mi |
| Red Rock | WSW 245° | 70 m | 6.8 mi |
| Pool Hill | W 266° | 66 m | 1.4 mi |
| Morse Hill | WSW 243° | 62 m | 8.7 mi |
| Pigeon Hill | NW 312° | 61 m | 1.5 mi |
| Browns Hill | WSW 256° | 61 m | 12.6 mi |
| Bush Hill | W 275° | 61 m | 12.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:17 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:05 | 19:42 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:04 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:27 | 16:12 |
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 | 27 | 28 | 35 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 41 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beverly, 13 mi away.
Mean tidal range 8.7 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Rockport, MA, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358274947
Day trips start here
- Rockport · 1 mi
- Gloucester · 4 mi
- Essex · 9 mi
- Manchester · 10 mi
- North Shore · 11 mi
- Hamilton · 12 mi
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