Salt Box Beach
Salt Box Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the northeast, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilbur Preserve North, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 2.9 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Beach in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
Wikidata Q49324562, matched on coordinates and name (12 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Flax Pond: 0.9 mi
- Haigis Beach: 2.2 mi
- Glendon Road Beach: 2.4 mi
- Sea Street Beach: 2.6 mi
- Swan Lake Association Beach: 2.7 mi
- Bass River Park: 1.0 mi
- Wings Grove Beach & Park: 1.1 mi
- Hazelmoor Park: 1.6 mi
- Johnny Kelley Park: 1.6 mi
- Windmill Park: 2.1 mi
- Wilbur Preserve North: 0.4 mi
- Wilbur Preserve South: 0.5 mi
- Conservation Land/Main St: 0.8 mi
- Barbour Land: 0.8 mi
- Indian Lands: 0.8 mi
- German hill: 2.2 mi
- Hokum Rock: 3.7 mi
- Black Ball Hill: 3.7 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.9 mi
- Signal Hill: 3.9 mi
- Carroll A. DeSilver: 2.3 mi
- Eagle Point: 4.7 mi
- Baxter Grist Mill: 4.9 mi
- Sachem Iyanough: 6.1 mi
- John F Kennedy Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Whydah Pirate Museum: 3.4 mi
- Edward Gorey House: 4.2 mi
- Captain Bangs Hallet House: 4.2 mi
- Cape Cod Museum of Art: 4.4 mi
- Josiah Dennis Manse Museum: 4.5 mi
- Pirates Cove: 3.3 mi
- Grand Slam Entertainment: 3.9 mi
- Jump On Us!: 4.6 mi
- Putter's Paradise: 5.0 mi
- Brewster Historical Society Windmill Village: 5.7 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 7.5 mi
- Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 16.0 mi
- Mashpee Community Garden: 16.3 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 16.7 mi
- McInnes Garden: 17.9 mi
- The Great Green Whale: 5.7 mi
- Saint John Paul: 6.3 mi
- James Otis Jr.: 7.1 mi
- Mercy Otis Warren: 7.1 mi
- The Catch: 11.9 mi
- Salten Point: 7.4 mi
- Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 11.0 mi
- Fullers Point: 11.8 mi
- bluff: 16.0 mi
- Indian Neck: 17.7 mi
- Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Picnick Area: 9.7 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.2 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 22.1 mi
- truck pull-off: 1.5 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 6.1 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 23.8 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Station: 11.4 mi
- Chatham Light: 11.4 mi
- Nauset Light: 16.8 mi
- Long Point: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Salt Box Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Hill | NE 52° | 165 m | 8.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | W 276° | 93 m | 20.5 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | WNW 283° | 85 m | 16.7 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | WNW 286° | 82 m | 19.7 mi |
| Avery Hill | W 281° | 80 m | 20.3 mi |
| Discovery Hill | WNW 282° | 77 m | 15.7 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | W 267° | 71 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mountain Hill | WNW 299° | 61 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:07 | 19:37 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:03 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 15:29 | 16:14 |
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 | 31 | 31 | 37 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 71 | 71 | 64 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W Harwich, 3 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station South Yarmouth, Bass River, MA, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358275699
Day trips start here
- Wareham · 29 mi
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