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Dow Brook Conservation Area

Dow Brook Conservation Area from directly overhead

Dow Brook Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. Littles Hill stands 79 m to the west, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Prospect Hill, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Essex Coastal Scenic Byway runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Built
2003-04-22
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.70281, -70.88342

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Prospect Hill: 0.4 mi
  • Jewett Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Smith Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Bartholomew Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Turkey Hill: 1.7 mi
Parks
  • Town Common: 0.8 mi
  • Benjamin Howe Memorial Park: 1.5 mi
  • Eiras Park: 1.7 mi
  • Bialek Park: 2.2 mi
  • Daniel Boone Park: 2.5 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Museums
Gardens
  • The Woodland Garden: 4.2 mi
  • The Gentian Garden: 4.2 mi
  • The Drought Tolerant Garden: 4.2 mi
  • The Fruit Trees & Conifers: 4.2 mi
  • The Vegetable, Fruit & Herb Garden: 4.2 mi
Beaches
Artworks
  • Sparrows: 6.8 mi
  • Clyde: 6.9 mi
  • Eclipse: 7.0 mi
  • Torrential Flight: 7.1 mi
  • Will He.: 7.3 mi
Cliffs: 22
Lighthouses: 14
Picnic sites: 10
Rest areas: 8
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 10.6 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (North Bound): 11.4 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 12.2 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 12.6 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 16.0 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Newbury Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Hampton Falls: 14.3 mi
  • Great Falls: 19.5 mi
  • Lower Falls: 19.6 mi
  • Cascade Falls: 20.3 mi
Springs: 4
  • Rail Spring: 4.1 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 11.3 mi
  • Jailhouse Spring: 20.0 mi
  • Quarry Spring: 21.6 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 6.6 miles of Dow Brook Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Littles HillW 279°79 m6.0 mi
Prospect HillWNW 284°77 m0.4 mi
Great HillSW 217°75 m4.8 mi
Turkey HillSSE 147°74 m1.7 mi
Turner HillS 187°70 m2.5 mi
Crane Neck HillNW 315°69 m6.6 mi
Long HillSW 234°67 m5.4 mi
Town HillSW 215°65 m5.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0619:4320:26
September equinox06:3118:0618:43
December solstice07:1115:2816:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272835455564706962514133
Precip in3.73.64.64.23.54.03.43.43.85.04.04.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beverly, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29692548

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