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Bay View Farm

Bay View Farm from directly overhead

Bay View Farm is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the east-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Bayview Farms, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Built
2005-07-01
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.70283, -70.36249
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Clay Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Shootflying Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Scorton Hill: 2.1 mi
  • White Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Cobbs Hill: 3.5 mi
Beaches
Parks
  • Discover Flying RC- Cape Cod Airfield: 2.3 mi
  • Ellen A. McBarron Field: 2.3 mi
  • Anthony & Georgia Botsey Park: 3.4 mi
  • Burgess Park: 3.5 mi
  • Sunset Lane Beach Access: 3.5 mi
Museums: 60
  • Barnstable Historical Soceity - Phinney Jones House: 2.8 mi
  • US Coast Guard Heritage Museum: 3.3 mi
  • Centerville Historical Museum: 3.9 mi
  • Benjamin Nye Homestead and Museum: 4.0 mi
  • Zion Union Heritage Museum: 5.1 mi
Historic sites: 48
Attractions: 25
  • Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 2.6 mi
  • Marstons Mills Herring Run: 4.5 mi
  • Wackenhammer's Clockwork Arcade and Carousel: 5.3 mi
  • Putter's Paradise: 6.0 mi
  • Green Briar Jam Kitchen: 6.2 mi
Artworks: 19
Cliffs: 18
Gardens: 15
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 6.2 mi
  • Mashpee Community Garden: 7.3 mi
  • McInnes Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 8.0 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Rest areas: 12
  • truck pull-off: 2.1 mi
  • truck pull-off: 2.4 mi
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 4.0 mi
  • truck pull-off: 6.4 mi
  • truck pull-off: 8.7 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Herring Run Recreational Area: 11.3 mi
  • Bourne Recreation Area: 12.0 mi
  • Picnick Area: 18.1 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 19.0 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Bay View Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillENE 77°165 m17.3 mi
Manomet HillNW 323°114 m19.5 mi
Pine HillsNW 324°95 m19.8 mi
Pine HillW 272°93 m10.5 mi
Telegraph HillWNW 288°85 m6.7 mi
Flatrock HillWNW 292°82 m9.7 mi
Avery HillWNW 281°80 m10.3 mi
Discovery HillWNW 285°77 m5.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4618:1718:54
June solstice05:0819:3820:20
September equinox06:2918:0418:41
December solstice07:0615:3016:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313237465564717064544536
Precip in3.73.64.84.03.43.32.83.23.84.34.14.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hyannis, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29900528

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