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Deer Island

Deer Island from directly overhead

Deer Island is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Powow Hill stands 99 m to the northwest, 2.7 miles off. Essex Coastal Scenic Byway passes 2.3 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.83457, -70.90693

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Moseley Woods: 0.2 mi
  • Atkinson Common: 0.8 mi
  • Three Roads: 0.9 mi
  • Alliance Park: 1.0 mi
  • Maudslay State Park: 1.2 mi
Museums
Peaks
  • Castle Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Tower Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Powder House Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Brown's Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Lone Tree Hill: 2.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Golgotha Boulder: 1.2 mi
  • Helen Moseley House Site: 1.4 mi
  • The Captain's Well: 1.5 mi
  • Doughboy Statue: 1.5 mi
  • Main House Site: 1.6 mi
Gardens
  • Vegtable Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Deep-Cold Frames: 1.5 mi
  • Shallow-Cold Frames: 1.5 mi
  • The Formal Gardens: 1.5 mi
  • Italian Garden: 1.5 mi
Artworks
  • Peace Offering: 2.1 mi
  • Brushstrokes: 2.1 mi
  • G-Swirl: 2.2 mi
  • Newburyport Collage: 2.2 mi
  • Native Fish: 2.2 mi
Attractions
Beaches
  • Salisbury Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Plum Island Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Plum Island Beach: 5.2 mi
  • Seabrook Beach: 5.8 mi
  • South Beach: 6.5 mi
Cliffs: 25
  • Sheep's Rock: 3.9 mi
  • Great Neck: 10.3 mi
  • Bar Head Cliff: 11.3 mi
  • Coastal Bank Bluff: 12.0 mi
  • Wildcat Ledge: 12.1 mi
Lighthouses: 17
Picnic sites: 13
  • Stratham Town Landing: 12.0 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 14.2 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 14.2 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 14.3 mi
  • Birthday Bay: 15.3 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Hampton Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Newbury Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Great Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Lower Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Piscassic Falls: 17.3 mi
Rest areas: 8
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 3.3 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 3.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 5.4 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 7.3 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 7.5 mi
Springs: 4
  • Lion's Spring: 3.3 mi
  • Rail Spring: 5.3 mi
  • Jailhouse Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 24.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.1 miles of Deer Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Powow HillNW 324°99 m2.7 mi
Chair HillNNW 330°93 m4.2 mi
Sawyers HillNW 307°91 m4.4 mi
Indian Ground HillNNW 326°91 m5.4 mi
Long HillW 272°81 m5.7 mi
Hog HillNW 325°81 m6.1 mi
Ring HillWNW 299°80.72 m4.2 mi
Bear HillWNW 281°80 m5.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0619:4320:26
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:1215:2716:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262936475767727163514132
Precip in3.73.64.94.23.84.23.63.44.14.93.94.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groveland, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29691233

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