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Albee Preserve

Albee Preserve from directly overhead

Albee Preserve is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 85 m. Wadkin Hill stands 224 m to the west, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is King Property, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Great and Breakneck Hill Roads passes 12 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1942
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.03779, -71.59113

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Estey Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Waterbug Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Chestnut Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Daniels Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Inman Hill: 3.4 mi
Parks
  • Skull Rock Lock Trailhead: 1.7 mi
  • High Rocks Gorge: 2.6 mi
  • Kendall Dean School: 2.6 mi
  • Slatersville Village Green: 2.6 mi
  • High Rocks Gorge: 2.7 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Statue of Hachikō: 4.6 mi
  • Statue: 7.9 mi
  • Hoyt Statue: 13.8 mi
  • George V. Brown Memorial: 13.8 mi
  • Veritas Eternaliter Juvenis (truth is eternally young): 15.5 mi
Attractions
  • Cumberlandite: 7.3 mi
  • Fat Man's Misery: 8.9 mi
  • Devil's Corncrib: 8.9 mi
  • Teetering Rock: 10.4 mi
  • Chattering Rock: 10.5 mi
Museums: 59
Gardens: 48
  • Janet Colby Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Eric J. Cook Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Rain Gardens: 12.7 mi
  • Julia's Garden: 14.5 mi
  • Attleboro Rose Garden: 16.6 mi
Beaches: 36
Picnic sites: 20
  • Site #36: 12.0 mi
  • 1: 14.3 mi
  • 36: 14.4 mi
  • 16-34: 14.4 mi
  • 35: 14.4 mi
Cliffs: 18
  • Condo Rock: 10.4 mi
  • The Wall: 10.5 mi
  • Woodward's Rock: 10.9 mi
  • Pond Cave: 12.2 mi
  • Fatboy Boulder: 12.2 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 10.1 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 10.1 mi
  • Thirsty Beaver: 11.5 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 15.7 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 16.1 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Brook Falls: 11.0 mi
  • Ponogansett Falls: 17.5 mi
  • Cargill Falls: 18.5 mi
Springs: 1
  • Roger Williams Spring: 17.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Albee Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wadkin HillW 272°224 m8.7 mi
Bald HillW 275°210 m6.2 mi
Wolf HillSW 230°204 m9.1 mi
Wallum Pond HillW 268°202 m8.8 mi
Absalona HillS 190°198 m9.3 mi
Keech HillS 189°194 m8.4 mi
Woonsocket HillSSE 155°180 m4.6 mi
Misoe HillN 5°180 m6.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2218:59
June solstice05:1219:4420:26
September equinox06:3418:0918:46
December solstice07:1215:3316:18

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283138495968747265534334
Precip in4.43.74.94.73.64.33.64.04.25.14.25.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woonsocket, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29769306

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