Nature reserve · Massachusetts

Five Islands

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Five Islands from directly overhead

Five Islands is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of -1 m. Peaked Hill stands 95 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 11 miles off.

Getting there

How to reach it

Coordinates41.57646, -70.50408

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

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Parks

Childs River Access: 1.5 mi
Fonseca Park: 1.9 mi
Coonamessett Greenway Heritage Trail: 3.5 mi
Sandwich Road Playing Fields: 3.9 mi
Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit: 4.2 mi

Beaches

South Cape Beach: 1.8 mi
South Cape Beach: 1.8 mi
Menahaunt Beach: 3.2 mi
Menauhant Beach: 3.2 mi
Menahaunt Beach: 3.3 mi

Peaks

Telegraph Hill: 6.7 mi
Mt. Otis: 6.7 mi
Mt. Zig: 6.9 mi
Swifts Hill: 7.1 mi
Riddle Hill: 7.2 mi

Historic sites50

Location of Hotel Attaquin: 5.1 mi
Mashpee Veterans' War Monument: 5.1 mi
Falmouth Police Memorial: 5.3 mi
Trout's Grave: 5.5 mi
Briant's Neck: 5.8 mi

Museums44

Cape Cod Children's Museum: 1.7 mi
Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit: 4.2 mi
Cahoon Museum of American Art: 5.1 mi
Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum: 5.1 mi
Falmouth Museums on the Green: 6.1 mi

Attractions23

Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 5.3 mi
The Liberté: 5.8 mi
Marstons Mills Herring Run: 6.9 mi
Flying Horses Carousel: 8.7 mi
Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 9.0 mi

Cliffs21

bluff: 2.8 mi
Falmouth Cliffs: 7.8 mi
Falmouth Heights: 8.5 mi
Husselton Head: 8.8 mi
North Head: 9.7 mi

Gardens15

Mashpee Community Garden: 5.1 mi
Colonial Gardens: 6.1 mi
Spohr Public Gardens: 7.5 mi
Garden of Our Lady: 9.3 mi
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 11.2 mi

Artworks11

Buddha: 1.2 mi
Tree of Bike: 7.4 mi
Helen Keller: 9.4 mi
Whale Tail: 9.4 mi
Rachel Carson: 9.4 mi

Rest areas9

truck pull-off: 10.4 mi
truck pull-off: 10.4 mi
Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 13.5 mi
Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 15.2 mi
truck pull-off: 15.6 mi

Lighthouses7

Picnic sites2

Bourne Recreation Area: 12.5 mi
Herring Run Recreational Area: 13.9 mi

Springs1

Crystal Spring: 18.6 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Five Islands. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Peaked Hill	SW 219°	94.8 m	19.4 mi
Pine Hill	NNW 341°	93 m	9.7 mi
Telegraph Hill	N 5°	85 m	10.9 mi
Flatrock Hill	N 352°	82 m	12.4 mi
Avery Hill	NNW 346°	80 m	11.1 mi
Prospect Hill	SW 221°	78 m	19.2 mi
Discovery Hill	N 10°	77 m	10.4 mi
Deer Horn Hill	NW 323°	71 m	7.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:46	18:18	18:54
June solstice	05:09	19:38	20:20
September equinox	06:30	18:05	18:41
December solstice	07:06	15:31	16:16

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	37	47	56	65	72	72	66	56	46	38

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29698988

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