Nature reserve · Massachusetts

Cooks Brook Beach

Cooks Brook Beach from directly overhead

Cooks Brook Beach is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south, 7.5 miles off. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 6.0 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built: 1964-05-15

Visiting

What to expect

Access: Yes

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.86487, -70.00743

6.0 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches

Cooks Brook Beach: 0.0 mi
Cooks Brook Beach: 0.3 mi
Sunken Meadow Beach: 0.5 mi
Campground Beach: 1.0 mi
Thumpertown Beach: 1.5 mi

Nature reserves

Parks

Mill Field: 0.7 mi
Mill Field: 0.7 mi
Wiley Park: 2.3 mi
Three Sisters of Nauset: 2.6 mi
Windmill Green: 2.9 mi

Peaks43

Skiff Hill: 3.7 mi
Fort Hill: 4.0 mi
Little Beach Hill: 4.1 mi
Cannon Hill: 5.0 mi
Tawasentha Hill: 5.9 mi

Historic sites38

Eastham Train Depot and Water Tower: 2.8 mi
Capped Foundation of Former Gunn Dairy Barn: 3.9 mi
Coast Guard Motor Life Boat CG36500: 4.5 mi
Battle of Orleans Massachusetts 1814: 4.5 mi
Jeremiah's Gutter: 4.8 mi

Museums32

Eastham 1869 Schoolhouse Museum: 2.5 mi
Wellfleet Historical Society Museum: 5.2 mi
French Cable Station Museum: 5.4 mi
French Cable Station Museum: 5.4 mi
Atwood-Higgins House: 6.7 mi

Artworks26

Chime: 1.3 mi
The Catch: 5.7 mi
They Also Faced the Sea: 15.5 mi
Homage to the Fishermen (1989): 15.8 mi
Bubbles the Humpback: 15.8 mi

Attractions14

Penniman House: 3.9 mi
Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 4.5 mi
Jonathan Young Windmill: 5.1 mi
Brewster Historical Society Windmill Village: 9.7 mi
Stick'n Rudder Aero Tours: 12.2 mi

Rest areas10

truck pull-off: 8.5 mi
truck pull-off: 10.2 mi
truck pull-off: 11.0 mi
truck pull-off: 13.2 mi
rest area: 14.6 mi

Lighthouses7

Gardens4

Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 1.4 mi
Suzanne's Garden: 15.9 mi
PAAM Sculpture Garden: 15.9 mi
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 22.1 mi

Cliffs4

Indian Neck: 3.3 mi
Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 14.6 mi
Salten Point: 18.8 mi
Fullers Point: 21.6 mi

Picnic sites2

Picnick Area: 7.0 mi
Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 13.3 mi

Ghost towns1

Long Point: 14.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cooks Brook Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Deer Park Hill	S 191°	165 m	7.5 mi
Signal Hill	SW 225°	60 m	12.8 mi
Clay Hill	SW 236°	58 m	21.9 mi
Black Ball Hill	SW 225°	45 m	13.2 mi
Mill Hill	S 177°	41 m	6.1 mi
The Highlands	NNW 347°	41 m	12.4 mi
Green Hill	N 351°	38 m	10.5 mi
Scorton Hill	WSW 244°	35 m	22.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:44	18:16	18:52
June solstice	05:06	19:37	20:19
September equinox	06:28	18:02	18:39
December solstice	07:05	15:28	16:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	32	33	38	46	55	64	71	71	64	54	45	37
Precip in	3.8	3.6	4.4	4.0	3.3	2.9	2.8	3.0	3.6	4.2	4.5	5.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 12 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29848198

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