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Adams Point Wildlife Management Area

Adams Point Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Adams Point Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. Third Hill stands 104 m to the northeast, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Adam's Family Monument, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Coastal Byway passes 5.5 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
NH Dept of Fish & Game
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.09324, -70.86780

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Hoyt Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Knight Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Brown Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Jeffs Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Hobbs Hill: 3.6 mi
Parks
  • Newington Town Park: 1.7 mi
  • Newington Town Park: 2.0 mi
  • Richard Schanda Conservation Park: 3.6 mi
  • Jackson's Landing: 3.6 mi
  • General Sullivan Park: 3.6 mi
Museums: 58
Gardens: 49
Beaches: 40
Artworks: 34
  • Why We Love Newmarket: 3.6 mi
  • Hope Is A Discipline: 4.3 mi
  • Dance Of The Ray: 4.4 mi
  • Mag8libo: 4.4 mi
  • A World Alive by Sculptor Walter Liff: 4.4 mi
Attractions: 19
  • Wagon: 2.5 mi
  • Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 5.6 mi
  • Triple Giant Slides: 5.9 mi
  • Maud Jones Memorial Forest Trail (.8 mi): 6.3 mi
  • Mast Way Trails: 7.4 mi
Waterfalls: 15
  • Second Falls: 4.1 mi
  • Piscassic Falls: 4.1 mi
  • Packer's Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Hook Island Falls: 6.1 mi
  • Wadleigh's Falls: 7.0 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Coffin's Cut: 7.0 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 7.0 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 7.1 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 7.1 mi
  • Dover Bluff: 14.2 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • Front Pavilion: 3.8 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 3.9 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 3.9 mi
  • SERCs A & B Greenspace: 4.4 mi
  • Birthday Bay: 5.9 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 10.7 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 11.0 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 14.4 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 14.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 20.0 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 4
  • Jailhouse Spring: 8.6 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 9.0 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Rail Spring: 22.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Adams Point Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Third HillNE 38°104 m7.2 mi
Garrison HillN 359°89 m8.1 mi
Stratham HillSSW 197°88 m3.9 mi
Great HillNE 40°87 m6.2 mi
Beech HillNW 319°86 m6.0 mi
Bald HillWSW 250°83 m7.5 mi
Jewell HillSSW 197°81 m4.5 mi
Layne HillWNW 303°76 m6.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1818:56
June solstice05:0519:4420:27
September equinox06:3118:0518:43
December solstice07:1315:2616:12

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634455564706860493930
Precip in3.43.54.64.03.84.03.73.44.04.34.04.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Durham 2 SSW, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/47798791

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