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FCS Community Garden

FCS Community Garden from directly overhead

FCS Community Garden is a garden in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 45 m. Atherton Hill stands 178 m to the west, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is West Street Memorial Park, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 26 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Freeport Community Services

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates43.85537, -70.10486

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Discovery Park: 0.2 mi
  • Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
  • Leon Gorman Park: 0.5 mi
  • Porter's Landing: 1.0 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 1.6 mi
Attractions
  • "The Final Charge" (Locked-horm Moose Display): 0.2 mi
  • LL Bean Boot: 0.2 mi
  • Desert of Maine: 2.6 mi
  • Big Indian: 3.3 mi
  • Bradbury Mountain State Park: 4.8 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Freeport Community Garden (at Elm Street): 0.3 mi
  • Organic Gardens: 2.4 mi
  • Organic Vegetable Fields: 2.6 mi
  • Yarmouth Community Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Yarmouth Community Garden: 4.1 mi
Peaks
Beaches: 57
Artworks: 47
  • Can't Stop Hip Hop: 5.7 mi
  • Frog Rock: 5.9 mi
  • Labyrinth in the Woods: 6.7 mi
  • Blessed Virgin Mary: 7.8 mi
  • Holy Trinty: 7.9 mi
Museums: 46
Cliffs: 9
  • White Head Cliff: 15.1 mi
  • The Cliffs: 15.2 mi
  • Cod Ledges: 15.7 mi
  • Cunner Ledges: 15.9 mi
  • Morse Point: 17.5 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • First Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Presumpscot Falls: 12.5 mi
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of FCS Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Atherton HillW 260°178 m12.6 mi
Dutton HillW 268°175 m11.8 mi
Hunt HillW 269°153 m11.2 mi
Blackstrap HillWSW 238°151 m12.6 mi
Gloucester HillNW 306°150 m11.6 mi
Leighton HillWSW 237°145 m13.5 mi
Libby HillWSW 254°144 m13.5 mi
Bradbury MountainNW 310°143 m5.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4518:1518:53
June solstice04:5919:4320:27
September equinox06:2818:0218:40
December solstice07:1215:1916:06

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222533445464706961493928
Precip in3.53.34.04.43.64.73.73.84.35.44.74.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gray, 8 mi away.

  • Monarch25 obs
  • rugosa rose24 obs
  • Wood Frog22 obs
  • sensitive fern19 obs
  • wild sarsaparilla19 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee18 obs
  • Canada mayflower17 obs
  • red trillium15 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1449292255

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