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Flat Brook Wildlife Management Area

Flat Brook Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Flat Brook Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 276 m. Pine Mountain stands 680 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Village School Playground, a park 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 7.5 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife

How to reach it

Coordinates42.34280, -73.38530

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Village School Playground: 0.7 mi
  • Interlaken Park: 3.3 mi
  • Berkshire Botanical Gardens: 3.8 mi
  • Lilac Park: 5.2 mi
  • Roche Reading Park: 5.3 mi
Peaks
  • Cone Hill: 1.4 mi
  • West Stockbridge Mountain: 2.1 mi
  • Maple Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Deane Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Harvey Mountain: 2.9 mi
Historic sites: 49
Museums: 36
Waterfalls: 24
  • falls: 9.3 mi
  • High Falls Waterfall: 15.1 mi
  • Hoags Corners Falls: 16.1 mi
  • Bash Bish Falls: 16.7 mi
  • Lower Falls: 17.6 mi
Cliffs: 15
Attractions: 12
  • concrete bases: 5.2 mi
  • balanced rock: 5.2 mi
  • Edith Wharton's Home: 5.3 mi
  • concrete bases: 5.5 mi
  • stone pillar: 5.6 mi
Gardens: 8
Beaches: 6
  • Adams Point Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Iroquis Waterfront: 16.1 mi
  • County Beach: 20.4 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 21.1 mi
  • East Beach: 23.8 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 16.5 mi
  • Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
Springs: 1
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 6.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 19.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Flat Brook Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine MountainNNE 18°680 m11.0 mi
Tower MountainNNE 14°670 m11.1 mi
Smith MountainNNE 15°660 m10.0 mi
Yokun SeatNE 45°645 m5.7 mi
Mount WilcoxSE 144°642 m10.5 mi
Perry PeakN 3°631 m5.4 mi
Harvey MountainSW 225°627 m2.9 mi
Bald TopE 92°624 m11.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:1819:5220:35
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:2015:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445665696860483728
Precip in3.53.13.73.74.14.84.54.24.54.73.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenox Dale, 7 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1072472729

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