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Reach Beach

Reach Beach from directly overhead

Reach Beach is a beach in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Bernard Mountain stands 326 m to the east-northeast, 13 miles off. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 18 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Island Heritage Trust

How to reach it

Coordinates44.23512, -68.61453

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Nature Area: 1.4 mi
  • Lily Pond Park: 3.0 mi
  • Mariner's Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
  • Deer Isle Ballfield and Playground: 3.1 mi
  • Brooklin Recreation Field: 4.8 mi
Peaks
  • Conary Head: 1.7 mi
  • Brays Mountain: 2.3 mi
  • High Head: 2.5 mi
  • Jims Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Burnt Hill: 6.5 mi
Beaches
Museums: 30
Cliffs: 28
Historic sites: 23
  • Isle Au Haut Rural School: 11.1 mi
  • Sarah Smith Foundation: 11.1 mi
  • Store Foundation: 11.3 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 11.3 mi
  • House Foundation: 11.3 mi
Gardens: 22
  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 18.5 mi
  • Tanglewood Garden: 20.9 mi
  • Heath: 21.9 mi
  • Mountain: 21.9 mi
  • Pitch Pine Upland: 21.9 mi
Attractions: 7
  • Town of Isle au Haut -Beach: 14.2 mi
  • High Hopes Lobster Boat: 17.1 mi
  • The Bubble: 19.3 mi
  • Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 21.7 mi
  • Thunder Hole: 21.9 mi
Springs: 7
  • Lurvey Spring: 14.7 mi
  • Jesuit Spring: 15.5 mi
  • Birch Spring: 18.0 mi
  • Maple Spring: 18.3 mi
  • Fern Spring: 18.5 mi
Artworks: 6
Waterfalls: 5
  • Vinal Falls: 15.3 mi
  • Man O War Waterfall: 15.8 mi
  • Hadlock Falls: 17.8 mi
  • Duck Brook Waterfall: 21.6 mi
  • Ellsworth Falls: 24.4 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 12.4 mi
  • Thompson Island Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Cathedral Rock: 22.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.8 miles of Reach Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bernard MountainENE 69°326 m12.9 mi
Mansell MountainENE 68°289 m13.5 mi
Knight NubbleENE 68°283 m13.0 mi
Blue Hill MountainN 5°281 m13.8 mi
Little NotchENE 68°271 m12.9 mi
Western MountainENE 68°246 m13.0 mi
Caterpillar MountainNNW 340°148 m7.1 mi
Sawyer MountainS 181°148 m12.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3918:0918:47
June solstice04:5119:3820:22
September equinox06:2217:5618:34
December solstice07:0815:1115:59

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202231425361676759483727
Precip in4.13.64.24.33.74.53.13.13.95.14.95.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Surry, 19 mi away.

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Center Harbor, ME, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/700007531

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