Poverty Island Beach
Poverty Island Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Mount Archer stands 136 m to the north, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Island Marshes, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 9.2 miles off.
The story
beach in New London County, Connecticut, United States
Wikidata Q31811107, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 9.2 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 26.9 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 27.6 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Great Island Marshes: 0.2 mi
- The Nature Conservancy Griswold Point (Owned): 0.3 mi
- Belton Copp Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Great Island Marshes: 1.2 mi
- Watch Rock Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Great Island Boat Launch: 0.5 mi
- Great Island Nature Area: 0.6 mi
- Fort Saybrook Monument Park: 1.3 mi
- Fort Saybrook Monument Park: 1.3 mi
- Old Lyme Green: 2.3 mi
- White Sand Beach: 1.3 mi
- Miami Beach: 2.5 mi
- Soundview Beach: 2.8 mi
- Plum Bank Beach: 3.4 mi
- Harveys Beach: 3.5 mi
- Meeting House Hill: 2.0 mi
- Johnnycake Hill: 2.1 mi
- Ferry Hill: 3.1 mi
- Obed Heights: 3.5 mi
- Jacobs Peak: 3.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Bride Brook Historical Plaque: 5.1 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 5.8 mi
- Westbrook Honor Roll: 6.2 mi
- Westbrook: 6.3 mi
- Nut Museum: 2.3 mi
- Old Lyme Historical Society: 2.6 mi
- Lyme Art Association: 3.0 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 3.1 mi
- Connecticut River Museum: 5.7 mi
- Stone Table: 8.4 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 9.9 mi
- Slaves Burying Ground: 10.4 mi
- Parking: 10.5 mi
- tri-town marker: 10.8 mi
- Silver Falls: 10.8 mi
- Cascade: 12.6 mi
- Cascade: 12.7 mi
- Cascade: 12.7 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 13.5 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 1.3 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 11.9 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 12.8 mi
- James Madison: 14.2 mi
- Totem Pole: 14.5 mi
- Memorial Garden: 7.4 mi
- Rock Garden: 11.3 mi
- West Garden: 11.3 mi
- East Garden: 11.3 mi
- Cutting Garden: 11.3 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 7.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.1 mi
- Ram Head: 14.3 mi
- Crow Head: 15.8 mi
- Hedges Bank: 17.3 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 1.4 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 24.5 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 24.5 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 24.5 mi
- Oil Shed: 24.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 5.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 17.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.6 mi
- Powder House: 11.9 mi
- Skate Hut: 12.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 23.4 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 16.2 mi
- Old Spring: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Poverty Island Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Archer | N 350° | 136 m | 8.6 mi |
| Grassy Hill | NNE 17° | 129 m | 8.7 mi |
| Nickerson Hill | N 1° | 123 m | 8.1 mi |
| Honey Hill | NNW 347° | 114 m | 8.1 mi |
| Brown Hill | N 3° | 112 m | 7.4 mi |
| Bushy Hill | WNW 304° | 105 m | 8.8 mi |
| Pond Hill | NE 37° | 103 m | 7.5 mi |
| Millstone Hill | NNW 333° | 101 m | 7.6 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 | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 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, 11 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Saybrook Point, CT, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359280398
Day trips start here
- Old Lyme · 3 mi
- Old Saybrook · 3 mi
- Essex · 6 mi
- East Lyme · 7 mi
- Waterford · 11 mi
- New London · 13 mi
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