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Buck Lake Wildlife Management Area

Buck Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Buck Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Vermont, at a recorded elevation of 435 m. Mount Putnam stands 1,110 m to the west-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Round Knoll, a peak 1.0 miles away. Mad River Byway passes 18 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
435 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.46229, -72.40473

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Nichols Ledge: 3.9 mi
  • Bunny Farm: 5.3 mi
  • Wolcott Field: 6.0 mi
  • Cabot Common: 6.2 mi
  • Calais Town Forest: 8.7 mi
Cliffs: 26
  • Marshfield Ledges: 10.4 mi
  • Devil's Dishpan: 20.8 mi
  • Revolution Wall: 22.8 mi
  • Bog Wall: 22.9 mi
  • Terra Incognita: 23.1 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Attractions: 20
  • A.M. Foster Bridge: 7.3 mi
  • Walden Mountain Alpaca Farm: 8.4 mi
  • Circus Smirkus World Headquarters: 11.5 mi
  • Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks: 13.9 mi
  • Stowe Bowl: 15.0 mi
Historic sites: 16
Museums: 16
Waterfalls: 8
  • Cheever Falls: 9.0 mi
  • Moss Glen Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Cadys falls: 12.9 mi
  • Gorge: 16.3 mi
  • Dog Head Falls: 17.4 mi
Covered bridges: 4
Picnic sites: 3
  • Shady Rill Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
  • Runaway Pond: 15.1 mi
  • Accès rivière: 18.8 mi
Beaches: 2
Artworks: 2
  • Kettle Pond State Park: 12.6 mi
  • Beavin & Sons: 16.7 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Cady's Falls Botanical Gardens: 13.2 mi
Springs: 1
  • Big Spring: 20.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area I-91 (North Bound): 21.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Buck Lake Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount PutnamWSW 255°1,110 m11.9 mi
Mount HungerWSW 249°1,083 m12.7 mi
Mount WorcesterW 262°998 m9.3 mi
Hogback MountainWSW 258°984 m12.1 mi
Stowe PinnacleW 260°801 m12.3 mi
Elmore MountainWNW 302°788 m8.3 mi
Cow HillESE 122°781 m10.8 mi
Stannard MountainENE 66°779 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2419:02
June solstice05:0619:5420:39
September equinox06:3718:1118:49
December solstice07:2415:2516:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F172028415463676558463524
Precip in3.22.83.13.74.34.94.84.43.44.33.63.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Worcester 2 W, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • striped maple19 obs
  • Eastern Newt16 obs
  • hobblebush16 obs
  • Painted Turtle15 obs
  • Solomon's plume15 obs
  • Christmas fern15 obs
  • American beech14 obs
  • purple-flowered raspberry14 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/1013341155

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