Plum Bank Beach
Plum Bank Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Mount Archer stands 136 m to the north, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Saybrook Town Beach, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. North Fork Trail passes 9.6 miles off.
The story
Beach in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31811103, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Old Saybrook Town Beach: 0.0 mi
- Trask Town Park: 1.2 mi
- Kavanagh Park: 1.2 mi
- Main Street Park: 1.7 mi
- Old Saybrook Town Green: 1.7 mi
- Beacon Hill: 1.7 mi
- Jacobs Peak: 2.6 mi
- Prospect Hill: 2.9 mi
- Ingham Hill: 3.2 mi
- Obed Heights: 3.3 mi
- Westbrook Honor Roll: 3.1 mi
- Westbrook: 3.1 mi
- In Memorium Albert H. Cyphers Sr.: 3.2 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 4.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Westbrook Historical Society Building: 3.1 mi
- Nut Museum: 4.3 mi
- Old Lyme Historical Society: 4.8 mi
- Lyme Art Association: 5.1 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 5.2 mi
- Harveys Beach: 0.4 mi
- Great Hammock Beach: 0.4 mi
- Indiantown Beach: 0.7 mi
- Chalker Beach: 1.0 mi
- Chapman Beach: 1.5 mi
- Harvey's Beach: 0.3 mi
- Town Of Old Saybrook Dock (Sheffield Street): 1.9 mi
- Old Saybrook Town Launching Ramp (North Cove Road): 2.1 mi
- Salt Island: 2.5 mi
- Town Open Space (Salt Works Road): 2.7 mi
- Stone Table: 6.6 mi
- Historic Ferry: 10.6 mi
- Lavender Pond Farm: 10.7 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 10.7 mi
- Slaves Burying Ground: 10.8 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 2.3 mi
- James Madison: 10.9 mi
- Totem Pole: 11.6 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 14.3 mi
- Big Bird: 15.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 8.5 mi
- Native Plant Gardens: 11.5 mi
- Madison Community Gardens: 11.6 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 14.2 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 12.8 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 12.9 mi
- Silver Falls: 13.4 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 13.5 mi
- Chapman Falls: 15.1 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 8.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 8.9 mi
- Ram Head: 14.6 mi
- Chimney Corner: 16.7 mi
- Crow Head: 17.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 2.5 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 20.1 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 24.0 mi
- Powder House: 15.3 mi
- Skate Hut: 15.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 21.4 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 2.6 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 15.8 mi
- Old Spring: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Plum Bank Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Archer | N 11° | 136 m | 9.5 mi |
| Grassy Hill | NNE 33° | 129 m | 10.8 mi |
| Wig Hill | NNW 333° | 128 m | 10.5 mi |
| Tower Hill | NW 313° | 126 m | 8.9 mi |
| Nickerson Hill | NNE 21° | 123 m | 9.6 mi |
| Honey Hill | N 10° | 114 m | 8.8 mi |
| Brown Hill | NNE 25° | 112 m | 9.0 mi |
| Bushy Hill | NW 325° | 105 m | 6.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:40 | 16:24 |
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 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 12 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Saybrook Point, CT, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359267611
Day trips start here
- Old Saybrook · 2 mi
- Essex · 6 mi
- Old Lyme · 6 mi
- East Lyme · 10 mi
- Waterford · 14 mi
- New London · 16 mi
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