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Flyaway Pond/Long Pond Management Area

Flyaway Pond/Long Pond Management Area from directly overhead

Flyaway Pond/Long Pond Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 72 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Easton Town Forest, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 6.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Easton Conservation Commission
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.06544, -71.13260

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Queset Gardens: 1.3 mi
  • Queset Gardens: 1.3 mi
  • Frothingham Memorial Park: 1.4 mi
  • Povoas Park: 1.6 mi
  • Edwin A. Keach Park: 2.0 mi
Artworks
  • Oliver Ames: 1.4 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 3.9 mi
  • EARLY HISTORY OF STOUGHTON MURAL: 4.4 mi
  • TOOTHY!!!: 4.6 mi
  • Deborah Sampson: 4.8 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Ames Boulder: 1.6 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 2.7 mi
  • Old Shed: 5.4 mi
  • Old Shed: 5.4 mi
  • Path Continues: 6.6 mi
Peaks
Gardens
Beaches
  • Fishermans Beach: 8.7 mi
  • Turner Pond Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Sweatt Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Whiting's Pond Beach: 11.5 mi
  • Barbara Road Beach: 12.0 mi
Cliffs: 48
  • King Philip Rock: 2.7 mi
  • King Philip Cave: 2.8 mi
  • Breakneck Ledge: 10.8 mi
  • The Shield: 12.5 mi
  • S Wall: 13.3 mi
Picnic sites: 39
  • Oak Grove: 1.7 mi
  • 12: 10.3 mi
  • 11: 10.3 mi
  • 13: 10.3 mi
  • 15: 10.3 mi
Rest areas: 11
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 8.5 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 9.2 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 10.6 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 18.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 18.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 10.5 mi
  • Roger Williams Spring: 21.6 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rock Falls: 11.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Flyaway Pond/Long Pond Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillN 5°193 m10.2 mi
Moose HillNW 314°163 m5.8 mi
Chickatawbut HillNNE 19°156 m11.4 mi
Hancock HillN 10°155 m10.7 mi
Buck HillNNE 16°151 m10.7 mi
Fenno PeakNNE 19°151 m11.4 mi
Nahanton HillNNE 20°145 m11.6 mi
Hemenway HillN 9°140 m10.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:1019:4220:25
September equinox06:3318:0718:44
December solstice07:1015:3116:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936475766727163514233
Precip in4.43.85.44.73.64.33.53.84.15.14.55.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norton W, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29830658

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