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Cordwood

Cordwood from directly overhead

Cordwood is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Pine Hill stands 93 m to the northwest, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Eagle Pond Sanctuary, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 5.7 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
2006-12-21
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.63097, -70.42005
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Cotuit Memorial Park: 1.2 mi
  • Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit: 1.6 mi
  • Osterville Library Park: 1.8 mi
  • Armstrong-Kelley Park: 2.1 mi
  • Hamblin Pond Beach: 2.3 mi
Beaches
Peaks
  • Clay Hill: 4.9 mi
  • Shootflying Hill: 5.4 mi
  • Sunset Hill: 5.9 mi
  • Scorton Hill: 6.3 mi
  • Discovery Hill: 6.9 mi
Museums: 45
Historic sites: 42
  • Trout's Grave: 2.0 mi
  • Briant's Neck: 2.4 mi
  • Mashpee Veterans' War Monument: 3.4 mi
  • Location of Hotel Attaquin: 3.5 mi
  • Scott Rock: 5.0 mi
Attractions: 22
  • Marstons Mills Herring Run: 1.4 mi
  • Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 3.8 mi
  • Wackenhammer's Clockwork Arcade and Carousel: 6.9 mi
  • Green Briar Jam Kitchen: 8.3 mi
  • The Green Briar Nature Center: 8.3 mi
Cliffs: 18
Gardens: 14
  • Mashpee Community Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 6.1 mi
  • Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 8.3 mi
  • Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 9.1 mi
  • McInnes Garden: 9.1 mi
Rest areas: 12
  • truck pull-off: 5.3 mi
  • truck pull-off: 5.4 mi
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 7.8 mi
  • truck pull-off: 10.1 mi
  • truck pull-off: 12.4 mi
Artworks: 12
Lighthouses: 9
Picnic sites: 4
  • Bourne Recreation Area: 11.8 mi
  • Herring Run Recreational Area: 12.2 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 22.0 mi
  • Picnick Area: 22.5 mi
Springs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.3 miles of Cordwood. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine HillNW 306°93 m9.2 mi
Telegraph HillNNW 334°85 m7.9 mi
Flatrock HillNW 324°82 m10.5 mi
Avery HillNW 315°80 m10.0 mi
Discovery HillNNW 339°77 m6.9 mi
Deer Horn HillWNW 283°71 m9.0 mi
Whiting HillSW 223°68 m21.3 mi
Discovery HillNW 322°61 m11.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4618:1718:54
June solstice05:0819:3820:20
September equinox06:3018:0418:41
December solstice07:0615:3016:15

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293136465664706962524336
Precip in4.94.05.34.63.94.13.83.03.95.34.75.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Sandwich, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29903057

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