Sandy Point Beach
Sandy Point Beach is a beach in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Copicut Hill stands 109 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Newport Polo, a attraction 0.8 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 2.3 miles off.
The story
Beach in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49324624, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 2.3 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 2.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 7.1 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
- 14.7 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 16 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Albro Woods: 1.8 mi
- Frank Carson Playground: 3.2 mi
- Weetamoo Woods: 3.4 mi
- Paradise Valley Park: 3.9 mi
- Middletown Valley Park: 4.0 mi
- Newport Car Museum: 2.7 mi
- Whitehall Museum House: 3.1 mi
- Prudence Island Historical Society: 5.3 mi
- Founders Hall: 5.6 mi
- Old Colony House: 5.8 mi
- Patriots Park: 3.8 mi
- Fort Butts Revolutionary War Memorial: 4.6 mi
- Archibald Gracie Lawence memorial stone: 4.7 mi
- Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower: 4.7 mi
- Rhode Island Red Monument: 5.5 mi
- Slate Hill: 1.7 mi
- Windmill Hill: 2.0 mi
- Wilcox Hill: 2.2 mi
- Barker Hill: 2.5 mi
- Turkey Hill: 3.5 mi
- Peckham Beach: 2.2 mi
- Third Beach: 4.2 mi
- Second Beach: 4.5 mi
- Surfer's End: 4.5 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 4.9 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 5.9 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 5.9 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 6.7 mi
- Statue of Roger Williams: 7.0 mi
- The Sky Improvement Society's Home for Troubled Clouds: 8.5 mi
- Newport Polo: 0.8 mi
- Old Colony House: 5.8 mi
- Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium: 5.9 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 6.0 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 6.0 mi
- High Hill Point: 1.1 mi
- Fogland Marsh Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Donavan Marsh: 1.7 mi
- Eight Rod Farm: 2.6 mi
- Seapowet Marsh Management Area: 2.6 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 3.9 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 4.2 mi
- The Blue Garden: 7.9 mi
- Woodcart Garden: 12.1 mi
- Helfand Farm Community Gardens: 12.8 mi
- The Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Marys Seat: 5.5 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 6.9 mi
- Usher Rocks: 8.2 mi
- Rams Head: 9.0 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 9.6 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 13.3 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 21.4 mi
- Factory Pond: 21.8 mi
- Crystal Spring: 22.7 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 14.8 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 15.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 22.5 mi
- Beavertail Light: 11.0 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 11.0 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 17.5 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 13.6 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 14.0 mi
- Big Beach: 17.5 mi
- Little Beach: 17.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Sandy Point Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copicut Hill | NE 37° | 109 m | 14.9 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 17° | 95 m | 7.5 mi |
| Slate Hill | WSW 248° | 87 m | 1.7 mi |
| Cook Hill | NNE 17° | 85 m | 8.1 mi |
| Drum Rock Hill | NW 307° | 82 m | 14.6 mi |
| Townsend Hill | NNE 17° | 77 m | 9.0 mi |
| Congdon Hill | W 263° | 75 m | 13.1 mi |
| Hammond Hill | W 260° | 73 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:34 | 16:19 |
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 | 32 | 38 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport State AP, 3 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station The Glen, RI, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357260092
Day trips start here
- Newport County · 2 mi
- Middletown · 4 mi
- Portsmouth · 4 mi
- Little Compton · 5 mi
- Tiverton · 5 mi
- Newport · 6 mi
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