Roachs Shore
Roachs Shore is a beach in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Mount Felix stands 142 m to the west-northwest, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Caveat Forest Legacy Easement, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. Lower Susquehanna Scenic Byway passes 5.8 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Lower Susquehanna Scenic Byway
- 7.5 mi off the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, National
- 10.9 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
- 23.0 mi off the Horses and Hounds Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- King & Queen Seat · 24 mi
- Hawk Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Long Point Park: 1.9 mi
- Veterans Park: 2.0 mi
- Fair Green Park: 2.1 mi
- Charlestown Historic District: 2.1 mi
- Charlestown Athletic Complex: 2.3 mi
- Caveat Forest Legacy Easement: 1.2 mi
- Dilks Forest Legacy Easement: 2.4 mi
- Elk River Associates Forest Legacy Easement: 3.0 mi
- Elk Neck State Forest Arboretum Trail: 5.0 mi
- Welch Point Managed Hunting Area: 5.3 mi
- Maryland Women in Military Service Monument: 5.2 mi
- Havre de Grace: 6.1 mi
- Gold Star Families Memorial Monument: 6.2 mi
- Ice Storage: 6.4 mi
- Lafayette: 6.5 mi
- Hand: 5.5 mi
- Big Fish, School of Fish: 6.1 mi
- Hammering Heart: 8.8 mi
- Wings of Thought: 14.9 mi
- Chloe & Lucinda (Nubian Goats): 14.9 mi
- Upper Bay Museum: 3.7 mi
- Perryville Railroad Museum: 5.7 mi
- Light Keeper's House Museum: 6.2 mi
- Maritime Museum: 6.2 mi
- Havre de Grace Decoy Museum: 6.3 mi
- Community Connecting Us - Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Polinator Garden: 11.1 mi
- Clark Garden: 14.4 mi
- Native Garden: 14.4 mi
- Worrilow Garden: 14.4 mi
- Black Hill: 1.6 mi
- Bull Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Rhodes Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Foys Hill: 4.0 mi
- Mauldin Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Herrs Potato Chip Factory: 14.3 mi
- Rudolph and Arthur Covered Bridge: 14.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Speedway: 19.0 mi
- Robert Fulton Birthplace: 20.6 mi
- Wilmington & Western Railroad: 22.5 mi
- North East Beach Area: 3.6 mi
- Garrett Island Beach: 6.3 mi
- Betterton Beach: 12.9 mi
- Belcamp Beach: 15.1 mi
- Deemer's Beach: 21.9 mi
- White Banks: 4.5 mi
- The Eye: 8.2 mi
- Wildcat Point: 18.0 mi
- Green Quarry: 18.4 mi
- Frenchtown: 7.4 mi
- Lapidum: 9.3 mi
- Glenville: 21.1 mi
- Deer Creek Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Rock Ridge Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
- Wilson's Picnic Area: 24.7 mi
- Black Barren Spring: 17.7 mi
- Black Rock Spring: 23.6 mi
- Bethel Bridge Lighthouse (replica): 8.7 mi
- Chauncey O. Simpson Memorial Rest Area: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Roachs Shore. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Felix | WNW 283° | 142 m | 8.8 mi |
| Goat Hill | NNW 333° | 135 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Ararat | WNW 301° | 134 m | 7.2 mi |
| Egg Hill | NNE 25° | 125 m | 8.9 mi |
| Bald Friar | NW 311° | 116 m | 17.2 mi |
| Schoolhouse Hill | WNW 287° | 115 m | 14.5 mi |
| Cherry Hill | NW 320° | 111 m | 19.9 mi |
| Horseshoe Hill | NE 43° | 101 m | 23.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:01 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Aberdeen Phillips FLD, 12 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Charlestown, Northeast River, MD, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358241369
Day trips start here
- Perryville · 6 mi
- Havre de Grace · 7 mi
- Chesapeake City · 8 mi
- Aberdeen · 11 mi
- Newark · 15 mi
- Oxford · 17 mi
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