Point of Rocks Landing Beach
Point of Rocks Landing Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the east-southeast, 2.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Shaw Lot, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 0.5 miles off. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Beach in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49323536, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Ellis Landing Beach: 0.8 mi
- Robbins Hill Beach: 1.3 mi
- Crosby Landing Beach: 2.0 mi
- Paine's Creek Beach: 2.4 mi
- Skaket Beach: 3.2 mi
- Cape Cod Sea Camps: 1.4 mi
- Town of Brewster vacant structure: 1.5 mi
- Former Camp Wono: 2.8 mi
- Drummer Boy Park: 2.9 mi
- Eldredge Park: 4.3 mi
- Tawasentha Hill: 2.0 mi
- Deer Park Hill: 2.1 mi
- Grassy Nook: 2.7 mi
- Mill Hill: 3.6 mi
- Hokum Rock: 6.1 mi
- Shaw Lot: 0.5 mi
- Stonehedge: 0.7 mi
- Paine Lot: 0.7 mi
- Labrecque Cr: 0.7 mi
- Price Lot: 0.8 mi
- Brenton I Wixon Memorial Park: 3.6 mi
- Eagle Point: 3.6 mi
- Battle of Orleans Massachusetts 1814: 3.7 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Life Boat CG36500: 3.7 mi
- Jeremiah's Gutter: 4.8 mi
- Cobb House Museum: 1.2 mi
- Cape Cod Museum of Natural History: 2.7 mi
- Stony Brook Grist Mill & Museum: 2.9 mi
- French Cable Station Museum: 4.4 mi
- Brooks Academy Museum: 6.0 mi
- The Catch: 4.3 mi
- Chime: 8.5 mi
- James Otis Jr.: 13.0 mi
- Mercy Otis Warren: 13.0 mi
- The Great Green Whale: 13.5 mi
- Brewster Historical Society Windmill Village: 2.9 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 3.7 mi
- Jonathan Young Windmill: 4.7 mi
- Penniman House: 6.3 mi
- Grand Slam Entertainment: 7.1 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 8.5 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 15.3 mi
- PAAM Sculpture Garden: 20.4 mi
- Suzanne's Garden: 20.5 mi
- Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 20.6 mi
- Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 9.8 mi
- Indian Neck: 9.8 mi
- Salten Point: 13.0 mi
- Fullers Point: 16.6 mi
- bluff: 23.4 mi
- Nauset Light: 8.6 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Station: 9.3 mi
- Chatham Light: 9.3 mi
- Highland/Cape Cod Light: 18.4 mi
- Picnick Area: 2.5 mi
- Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 7.9 mi
- truck pull-off: 3.5 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 12.7 mi
- Long Point: 18.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point of Rocks Landing Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Hill | ESE 119° | 165 m | 2.1 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | W 267° | 82 m | 24.2 mi |
| Discovery Hill | W 261° | 77 m | 20.8 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 246° | 60 m | 6.4 mi |
| Clay Hill | WSW 248° | 58 m | 16.0 mi |
| Black Ball Hill | WSW 245° | 45 m | 6.8 mi |
| Faunces Mountain | W 267° | 43 m | 22.8 mi |
| Mill Hill | E 86° | 41 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:06 | 19:37 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 15:28 | 16:13 |
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 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 71 | 64 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 7 mi away.
Mean tidal range 9.73 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Sesuit Harbor, East Dennis, MA, 5 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358283222
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