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Brooks Farm Wildlife Preserve

Brooks Farm Wildlife Preserve from directly overhead

Brooks Farm Wildlife Preserve is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 49 m. Middle Peak stands 263 m to the north-northeast, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Penny Pond, a nature reserve 1.0 miles away. Branch River Valley Trail passes 12 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Great Works Regional Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.27173, -70.84089
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Great Falls Park: 1.2 mi
  • The Riverwalk: 1.3 mi
  • USS Somersworth Pocket Park: 1.3 mi
  • Memorial Field: 1.3 mi
  • Stein Park: 1.4 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Beaches: 46
Artworks: 22
Gardens: 16
Attractions: 14
  • Spring Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Wagon: 10.0 mi
  • Maud Jones Memorial Forest Trail (.8 mi): 11.2 mi
  • Take Flight: 12.0 mi
  • Mast Way Trails: 13.1 mi
Waterfalls: 13
  • Hayes Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Kimballs Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Orris Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Gonic Trails Falls: 7.3 mi
  • Second Falls: 12.6 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Coffin's Cut: 5.8 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 5.8 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 5.9 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 5.9 mi
  • York Cliffs: 13.7 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • SERCs A & B Greenspace: 10.7 mi
  • Fort McClary Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 16.1 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 16.2 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 16.3 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Springs: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 23.1 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 23.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Brooks Farm Wildlife Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Middle PeakNNE 19°263 m8.6 mi
Bauneg Beg MountainNNE 20°262 m8.3 mi
North PeakNNE 18°250 m8.8 mi
Mount AgamenticusESE 114°210 m8.2 mi
Second HillESE 109°167 m8.4 mi
Abbott HillN 6°166 m7.0 mi
Third HillESE 106°159 m8.9 mi
Diamond HillNNE 16°148 m3.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1818:56
June solstice05:0419:4420:28
September equinox06:3118:0518:43
December solstice07:1315:2516:11

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465666716962503930
Precip in2.52.23.73.73.53.93.53.23.44.43.93.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rochester Skyhaven AP, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1212410043

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