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Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary

Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary from directly overhead

Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Green Hill stands 112 m to the northwest, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Bellamy River Wildlife Management Area East, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Coastal Byway passes 6.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Audubon Society of NH
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.13863, -70.84860

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Huckleberry Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Knight Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Sunset Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Adlington Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Pudding Hill: 3.4 mi
Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Beaches: 47
Artworks: 34
  • Snake Eyes: 3.7 mi
  • A World Alive by Sculptor Walter Liff: 4.0 mi
  • Sherwood Cairn Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Hope Is A Discipline: 4.3 mi
  • Dance Of The Ray: 4.3 mi
Gardens: 27
Attractions: 18
  • Wagon: 1.3 mi
  • Portsmouth Harbor Cruises: 6.1 mi
  • Maud Jones Memorial Forest Trail (.8 mi): 6.3 mi
  • Take Flight: 7.3 mi
  • Triple Giant Slides: 7.9 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Second Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Hayes Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Kimballs Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Packer's Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Piscassic Falls: 6.3 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Coffin's Cut: 4.2 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 4.3 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 4.3 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 4.3 mi
  • Dover Bluff: 12.4 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • SERCs A & B Greenspace: 4.5 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 7.1 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 7.2 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 7.2 mi
  • Birthday Bay: 7.9 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 5
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 13.9 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 14.1 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 17.6 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 18.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 23.3 mi
Springs: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Bellamy River Wildlife Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Green HillNW 314°112 m8.5 mi
Third HillNE 54°104 m4.3 mi
Horse HillsENE 57°98 m8.3 mi
Long HillNNW 328°90 m7.5 mi
Garrison HillNNW 348°89 m5.0 mi
Stratham HillSSW 197°88 m7.2 mi
Great HillENE 61°87 m3.4 mi
Powderhouse HillNNE 20°87 m7.0 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 solstice07:1315:2516:12

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634455564706961503930
Precip in3.43.54.44.23.84.33.83.43.94.83.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Durham 2 N, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab31 obs
  • Common Periwinkle23 obs
  • European Green Crab21 obs
  • Harris's Sparrow14 obs
  • Eastern Oyster14 obs
  • White-tailed Deer13 obs
  • Monarch13 obs
  • Pileated Woodpecker12 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/47798794

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