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AES Open Space

AES Open Space from directly overhead

AES Open Space is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Powow Hill stands 99 m to the southwest, 0.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Batchelder Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Independence Byway passes 3.4 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.86808, -70.93493

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Batchelder Park: 0.2 mi
  • Lake Gardner Beach Area: 0.6 mi
  • Millyard Park: 0.7 mi
  • Gillis Park: 0.8 mi
  • Amesbury Town Park: 1.0 mi
Peaks
  • Powow Hill: 0.2 mi
  • Whittier Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Beech Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Kinney Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Mundy Hill: 1.2 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Doughboy Statue: 1.4 mi
  • The Captain's Well: 1.4 mi
  • Golgotha Boulder: 1.5 mi
  • Helen Moseley House Site: 3.0 mi
  • Main House Site: 3.2 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Vegtable Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Deep-Cold Frames: 3.1 mi
  • The Formal Gardens: 3.1 mi
  • Shallow-Cold Frames: 3.1 mi
  • Italian Garden: 3.1 mi
Artworks
  • Peace Offering: 4.8 mi
  • Brushstrokes: 4.8 mi
  • G-Swirl: 4.8 mi
  • Newburyport Collage: 4.8 mi
  • Native Fish: 4.9 mi
Attractions
Beaches
  • Seabrook Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Newton Town Beach: 6.3 mi
  • Salisbury Beach: 6.3 mi
  • South Beach: 6.6 mi
  • Hampton Beach: 7.0 mi
Cliffs: 21
  • Sheep's Rock: 5.0 mi
  • Great Neck: 13.1 mi
  • Wildcat Ledge: 13.6 mi
  • Bar Head Cliff: 14.0 mi
  • Coastal Bank Bluff: 14.7 mi
Lighthouses: 17
Waterfalls: 13
  • Hampton Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Great Falls: 7.8 mi
  • Lower Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Newbury Falls: 8.2 mi
  • Piscassic Falls: 14.8 mi
Picnic sites: 12
  • Stratham Town Landing: 9.6 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 12.0 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 12.1 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 12.2 mi
  • Birthday Bay: 14.0 mi
Rest areas: 8
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 2.7 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 3.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 5.0 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 5.9 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 6.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Lion's Spring: 1.9 mi
  • Rail Spring: 8.0 mi
  • Jailhouse Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 21.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 5.4 miles of AES Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Powow HillSW 223°99 m0.2 mi
Chair HillNNW 334°93 m1.5 mi
Red Oak HillWSW 250°93 m4.9 mi
Red Oak HillWSW 250°93 m5.1 mi
Sawyers HillW 278°91 m2.1 mi
Indian Ground HillNW 324°91 m2.7 mi
Morse HillNW 308°91 m4.9 mi
Moulton RidgeNNW 338°90 m5.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0619:4320:27
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:1215:2716:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262735465665727062514131
Precip in3.53.64.84.34.14.23.63.84.05.33.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Haverhill, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/300592344

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