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Conway Hills Wildlife Sanctuary

Conway Hills Wildlife Sanctuary from directly overhead

Conway Hills Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 204 m. Peter Hill stands 557 m to the west-northwest, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Fisher Hill, a peak 1.1 miles away. Route 112 Scenic Byway passes 6.3 miles off.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.50850, -72.68436

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Fisher Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Cricket Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Field Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Norton Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Catlin Lot Hill: 2.2 mi
Nature reserves
Parks
  • South Deerfield Common: 4.4 mi
  • Tri-Town Beach District: 4.7 mi
  • Herlihy Park: 5.8 mi
  • Field Field: 5.8 mi
  • Belding Memorial Park: 6.0 mi
Historic sites
Museums: 43
  • Memorial Hall Museum: 4.8 mi
  • Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum: 7.0 mi
  • Goshen Historical Museum: 7.6 mi
  • Buckland Historical Museum: 8.0 mi
  • Williamsburg Historical Society: 8.4 mi
Attractions: 24
  • Historic Deerfield Walking Tour: 4.9 mi
  • Greenfield Energy Park: 6.8 mi
  • Bridge of Flowers: 7.2 mi
  • hole in wall: 8.2 mi
  • rock overhang: 8.3 mi
Gardens: 21
Cliffs: 19
  • Roaring Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Pigpen Ledges: 9.9 mi
  • Mormon Hollow: 12.3 mi
  • Mormon Hollow: 12.3 mi
  • Introductory Buttress: 13.0 mi
Artworks: 17
Beaches: 10
  • Ashfield Town Beach: 6.0 mi
  • Puffers Pond North Beach: 10.5 mi
  • Puffers Pond South Beach: 10.6 mi
  • David Musante Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 13.0 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Hobo Falls: 16.6 mi
  • Glendale Falls: 18.0 mi
  • Tannery Falls: 18.1 mi
  • Bear's Den Falls: 18.4 mi
  • Twin Cascade: 19.9 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 3
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 21.7 mi
  • Rd: 21.8 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 21.8 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Conway Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Peter HillWNW 283°557 m7.1 mi
Brier HillWSW 258°530 m5.8 mi
Seventy Six HillW 266°530 m6.2 mi
Moore HillWSW 239°517 m5.9 mi
Massamet MountainNNW 346°485 m7.0 mi
Mary Lyon HillNW 311°482 m6.8 mi
Moonshine HillNW 318°458 m6.3 mi
Abbott HillWSW 236°454 m4.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1419:4920:32
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1815:3616:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465766716962513930
Precip in3.53.13.93.84.04.84.14.74.24.73.84.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenfield #3, 6 mi away.

  • Eastern Newt16 obs
  • Christmas fern13 obs
  • striped maple10 obs
  • Wood Frog10 obs
  • sensitive fern10 obs
  • northern maidenhair fern8 obs
  • American beech8 obs
  • interrupted fern8 obs

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

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1018938288

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