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Chockalog Swamp Natural Heritage Area

Chockalog Swamp Natural Heritage Area from directly overhead

Chockalog Swamp Natural Heritage Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 148 m. Wood Hill stands 277 m to the west-northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Hale Swamp, a nature reserve 1.1 miles away. Great and Breakneck Hill Roads passes 14 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
2005-06-03
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.02524, -71.66741

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Hale Swamp: 1.1 mi
  • Black Hut State Management Area: 2.4 mi
  • Town Forest-West: 2.5 mi
  • Black Hut State Management Area: 2.6 mi
  • Spring Lake Beach: 2.8 mi
Peaks
  • Bald Hill: 2.6 mi
  • William Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Quarry Hill: 4.2 mi
  • Castle Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Wallum Pond Hill: 4.9 mi
Parks
  • Martin Road Park: 3.0 mi
  • Skull Rock Lock Trailhead: 3.4 mi
  • B24 Liberator Crash Site: 3.4 mi
  • Taft Memorial Park: 3.8 mi
  • Harrisville Fishing Area: 3.8 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Fat Man's Misery: 7.5 mi
  • Devil's Corncrib: 7.5 mi
  • Cumberlandite: 10.9 mi
  • Old Black Oak: 13.0 mi
  • Teetering Rock: 13.3 mi
Artworks
Museums: 53
Gardens: 38
  • Eric J. Cook Memorial Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Janet Colby Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Rain Gardens: 15.2 mi
  • Jakubowitz-Chaifetz Garden: 17.6 mi
  • Manton Bend Community Garden: 18.1 mi
Beaches: 31
Picnic sites: 20
  • Site #36: 14.4 mi
  • 1: 18.1 mi
  • 36: 18.1 mi
  • 16-34: 18.2 mi
  • 2: 18.2 mi
Cliffs: 17
  • Woodward's Rock: 8.4 mi
  • Condo Rock: 13.3 mi
  • The Wall: 13.4 mi
  • Pond Cave: 14.5 mi
  • Fatboy Boulder: 14.5 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Thirsty Beaver: 12.3 mi
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 12.8 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 12.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.5 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 19.9 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Cascade Brook Falls: 11.3 mi
  • Cargill Falls: 14.6 mi
  • Ponogansett Falls: 16.1 mi
  • Spencer Rock Waterfall: 23.1 mi
Springs: 1
  • Roger Williams Spring: 18.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Chockalog Swamp Natural Heritage Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wood HillWNW 282°277 m7.8 mi
Goat HillNW 306°268 m9.2 mi
Bare HillWNW 295°262 m9.0 mi
Whittier HillNW 312°256 m9.7 mi
King HillNNW 330°253 m8.5 mi
Sugarloaf HillWNW 285°234 m8.9 mi
Mount DanielsW 272°231 m6.9 mi
Putnam HillNW 320°231 m8.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2218:59
June solstice05:1219:4420:27
September equinox06:3518:0918:46
December solstice07:1215:3416:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283138495968747265534334
Precip in4.43.74.94.73.64.33.64.04.25.14.25.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woonsocket, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29783079

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