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Beaver Brook Management Area

Beaver Brook Management Area from directly overhead

Beaver Brook Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 50 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the north, 11 miles off. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 7.7 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Easton Conservation Commission
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.04702, -71.12865

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Edwin A. Keach Park: 1.1 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.5 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
  • Oliver Ames: 2.0 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 5.1 mi
  • EARLY HISTORY OF STOUGHTON MURAL: 5.6 mi
  • TOOTHY!!!: 5.8 mi
  • Deborah Sampson: 6.0 mi
Attractions
  • Ames Boulder: 2.0 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 3.5 mi
  • Old Shed: 4.2 mi
  • Old Shed: 4.2 mi
  • Path Continues: 5.4 mi
Peaks
Gardens
Beaches
  • Fishermans Beach: 9.9 mi
  • Turner Pond Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Whiting's Pond Beach: 11.3 mi
  • Barbara Road Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Sweatt Beach: 11.8 mi
Cliffs: 48
  • King Philip Cave: 3.4 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 3.5 mi
  • Breakneck Ledge: 12.0 mi
  • The Shield: 13.6 mi
  • S Wall: 14.4 mi
Picnic sites: 39
  • Oak Grove: 2.1 mi
  • 12: 10.0 mi
  • 11: 10.0 mi
  • 8: 10.0 mi
  • 13: 10.0 mi
Rest areas: 11
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 8.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 8.8 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 11.9 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 17.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 17.9 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 11.6 mi
  • Roger Williams Spring: 20.8 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rock Falls: 12.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Beaver Brook Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillN 4°193 m11.4 mi
Moose HillNW 321°163 m6.9 mi
Hancock HillN 8°155 m11.9 mi
Buck HillNNE 13°151 m11.9 mi
Hemenway HillN 7°140 m11.9 mi
Bluff HillNW 316°138 m6.4 mi
Tucker HillN 11°133 m11.7 mi
Wolcott HillN 5°132 m11.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:1019:4220:24
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1015:3116:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936475766727163514233
Precip in4.43.85.44.73.64.33.53.84.15.14.55.2

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29897955

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