Bass Harbor Head Light
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Bass Harbor Head Light is a lighthouse in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Sargent Mountain stands 419 m to the north-northeast, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Bass Harbor Head Light Station, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 7.7 miles off.
The story
Bass Harbor Head Light is a lighthouse located within Acadia National Park in the southwest portion of Mount Desert Island, Maine, marking the entrance to Bass Harbor and Blue Hill Bay.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1858.
Wikidata Q810448, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1858
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- U.S. Coast Guard
How to reach it
- 7.7 mi off the Acadia Scenic Byway
- 15.8 mi off the Schoodic National Scenic Byway, National
- 28.9 mi off the Blackwoods Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Old Soaker Overlook · 11 mi
- Hawk Watch · 11 mi
- Beehive Overlook · 11 mi
- Frazer Point · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bass Harbor Light Station: 0.0 mi
- Chris's Pond Park: 3.8 mi
- Pemetic Elementary School play area: 4.1 mi
- Charlotte Rhoades Park: 4.7 mi
- Fire Ponds: 4.8 mi
- Big Rocks: 1.5 mi
- Burnt Hill: 2.8 mi
- Hio Hill: 3.0 mi
- Mount Gilboa: 3.1 mi
- China Hill: 3.5 mi
- Cobble Beach: 0.5 mi
- Back Beach: 1.5 mi
- Joyce Beach: 4.8 mi
- Gilley Beach: 6.1 mi
- Echo Lake Beach: 6.4 mi
- Acadia National Park: 0.6 mi
- Great Gott Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Kelley Farm Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Mitchell Marsh Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Placentia Island Preserve: 2.6 mi
- High Head: 5.0 mi
- Schoolhouse Ledge: 5.8 mi
- Pierce Head: 6.0 mi
- Canada Cliff: 6.1 mi
- Beach Cliff: 6.7 mi
- Preble-Marr Historical Museum: 4.0 mi
- Wendell Gilley Museum: 4.3 mi
- La petite Plaisance: 5.2 mi
- Islesford Historical Museum: 5.6 mi
- Seal Cove Auto Museum: 6.7 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light Station: 0.0 mi
- Champlain Monument: 7.6 mi
- Store Foundation: 7.9 mi
- House Foundation: 8.0 mi
- Barn Foundation: 8.1 mi
- Bear Island Light Station: 5.4 mi
- Baker Island Light: 7.0 mi
- Great Duck Island Light Station: 7.1 mi
- Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse: 8.2 mi
- Blue Hill Bay Light: 8.2 mi
- High Hopes Lobster Boat: 3.9 mi
- The Bubble: 9.1 mi
- Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 9.6 mi
- Thunder Hole: 10.0 mi
- Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 13.4 mi
- Jesuit Spring: 5.4 mi
- Lurvey Spring: 5.6 mi
- Birch Spring: 8.0 mi
- Maple Spring: 8.6 mi
- Fern Spring: 9.3 mi
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 6.8 mi
- Wild Gardens of Acadia: 11.6 mi
- COA Community Garden: 13.3 mi
- Newlin Garden: 13.3 mi
- Beatrix Farrand Gardens: 13.3 mi
- Man O War Waterfall: 6.7 mi
- Hadlock Falls: 8.1 mi
- Duck Brook Waterfall: 12.8 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 24.4 mi
- Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Thompson Island Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Baxter The Lobster: 13.3 mi
- Water Street Mural: 22.4 mi
- Cathedral Rock: 15.4 mi
- Long Cove: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of Bass Harbor Head Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sargent Mountain | NNE 21° | 419 m | 9.0 mi |
| Pemetic Mountain | NNE 30° | 380 m | 9.0 mi |
| Penobscot Mountain | NNE 24° | 360 m | 8.4 mi |
| Bernard Mountain | NNW 343° | 326 m | 5.8 mi |
| Dike Peak | NE 35° | 321 m | 9.6 mi |
| Gilmore Peak | NNE 19° | 316 m | 8.5 mi |
| Bald Peak | NNE 19° | 297 m | 8.3 mi |
| Mansell Mountain | NNW 348° | 289 m | 6.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:38 | 18:08 | 18:46 |
| June solstice | 04:50 | 19:37 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:21 | 17:55 | 18:33 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:10 | 15:58 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 33 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Acadia NP, 11 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Bass Harbor, ME, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 87002273OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- National Register of Historic Places — Bass Harbor Head Light Station, reference 87002273, listed 01/21/88.
OpenStreetMap element way/1056193780
Day trips start here
- Acadia National Park · 0 mi
- Surry · 21 mi
- Ellsworth · 25 mi
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