Blue Hill Bay Light
Blue Hill Bay Light is a lighthouse in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Bernard Mountain stands 326 m to the east-northeast, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is McKenney Preserve, a nature reserve 2.0 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 13 miles off.
How to reach it
- 13.1 mi off the ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY
- 22.1 mi off the SCHOODIC NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAY, National
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset view · 15 mi
- Hawk Watch · 15 mi
- Old Soaker Overlook · 17 mi
- Beehive Overlook · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McKenney Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Pond Island Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Hog Island Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Big Babson Island Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Harriman Point Preserve: 3.6 mi
- High Head: 3.8 mi
- Conary Head: 4.3 mi
- Butlers Hill: 4.8 mi
- Tinker Hill: 4.9 mi
- Murphy Hill: 5.0 mi
- Brooklin Recreation Field: 3.9 mi
- Seal Cove Picnic Area: 5.0 mi
- Fine Sand Beach: 6.5 mi
- Nature Area: 7.1 mi
- Fire Ponds: 7.5 mi
- Birchhead Shore: 5.1 mi
- Reach Beach: 5.9 mi
- Sand Beach: 6.5 mi
- Back Beach: 6.9 mi
- Joyce Beach: 7.3 mi
- Seal Cove Auto Museum: 6.1 mi
- Sedgwick Brooklin Historical Society: 6.9 mi
- Wendell Gilley Museum: 8.8 mi
- Deer Isle Granite Museum: 10.4 mi
- La petite Plaisance: 10.7 mi
- Lookout Ledge: 8.0 mi
- High Head: 8.1 mi
- Canada Cliff: 9.0 mi
- Beach Cliff: 9.2 mi
- Schoolhouse Ledge: 10.5 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light Station: 8.2 mi
- Store Foundation: 8.6 mi
- Sarah Smith Foundation: 8.6 mi
- House Foundation: 8.6 mi
- Barn Foundation: 8.7 mi
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 12.6 mi
- Heath: 16.3 mi
- Mountain: 16.3 mi
- Meadow: 16.3 mi
- Pitch Pine Upland: 16.3 mi
- Oil House: 8.1 mi
- Keeper's House: 8.2 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light: 8.2 mi
- Bell House: 8.2 mi
- Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse: 8.3 mi
- High Hopes Lobster Boat: 11.3 mi
- The Bubble: 13.6 mi
- Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 15.9 mi
- Thunder Hole: 16.1 mi
- Town of Isle au Haut -Beach: 16.2 mi
- Lurvey Spring: 8.9 mi
- Jesuit Spring: 9.7 mi
- Birch Spring: 12.3 mi
- Maple Spring: 12.7 mi
- Fern Spring: 13.0 mi
- Man O War Waterfall: 10.2 mi
- Hadlock Falls: 12.2 mi
- Duck Brook Waterfall: 16.3 mi
- Vinal Falls: 20.5 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 22.1 mi
- Baxter The Lobster: 17.5 mi
- Water Street Mural: 20.5 mi
- Penn Station Eagle: 21.7 mi
- Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
- Thompson Island Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- Cathedral Rock: 17.4 mi
- Long Cove: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Blue Hill Bay Light. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Mountain | ENE 59° | 326 m | 7.2 mi |
| Bald Peak | ENE 60° | 297 m | 12.2 mi |
| Mansell Mountain | ENE 59° | 289 m | 7.8 mi |
| Parkman Mountain | ENE 59° | 287 m | 12.2 mi |
| Knight Nubble | ENE 58° | 283 m | 7.4 mi |
| Cedar Swamp Mountain | ENE 63° | 283 m | 12.3 mi |
| Little Notch | ENE 59° | 271 m | 7.3 mi |
| Norumbega Mountain | ENE 62° | 260 m | 11.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:38 | 18:08 | 18:46 |
| June solstice | 04:51 | 19:38 | 20:22 |
| September equinox | 06:22 | 17:55 | 18:33 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:11 | 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, 15 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Center Harbor, ME, 5 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/6525103480
Day trips start here
- Acadia National Park · 9 mi
- Surry · 17 mi
- Ellsworth · 22 mi
- Orland · 25 mi
- Bucksport · 27 mi
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