Nature reserve · Massachusetts

Fox Island Salt Marsh

Fox Island Salt Marsh from directly overhead

Fox Island Salt Marsh is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south, 10 miles off. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 8.9 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built: 1994-05-23

Visiting

What to expect

Access: Yes

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.90734, -70.01341

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

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Beaches

Mayo Beach: 2.1 mi
Great Pond Beach: 2.2 mi
Lecount Hollow Beach: 2.3 mi
Powers Landing: 2.4 mi
Sunken Meadow Beach: 2.5 mi

Parks59

Cannon Hill Park: 2.1 mi
Mill Field: 2.4 mi
Mill Field: 2.4 mi
Three Sisters of Nauset: 4.4 mi
Wiley Park: 5.2 mi

Peaks42

Cannon Hill: 2.1 mi
Little Beach Hill: 3.0 mi
Gross Hill: 3.1 mi
Griffin Island: 3.5 mi
Skiff Hill: 6.4 mi

Historic sites38

Indian Grave Stone: 3.3 mi
Eastham Train Depot and Water Tower: 5.6 mi
Capped Foundation of Former Gunn Dairy Barn: 6.6 mi
Coast Guard Motor Life Boat CG36500: 7.4 mi
Battle of Orleans Massachusetts 1814: 7.4 mi

Museums31

Wellfleet Historical Society Museum: 2.3 mi
Atwood-Higgins House: 4.0 mi
Eastham 1869 Schoolhouse Museum: 5.2 mi
French Cable Station Museum: 8.4 mi
French Cable Station Museum: 8.4 mi

Artworks26

Chime: 2.0 mi
The Catch: 8.7 mi
They Also Faced the Sea: 13.1 mi
Homage to the Fishermen (1989): 13.3 mi
Bubbles the Humpback: 13.3 mi

Attractions13

Penniman House: 6.6 mi
Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 7.4 mi
Jonathan Young Windmill: 8.0 mi
Brewster Historical Society Windmill Village: 12.1 mi
Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch: 13.2 mi

Rest areas10

truck pull-off: 11.4 mi
truck pull-off: 13.1 mi
truck pull-off: 13.8 mi
truck pull-off: 15.7 mi
rest area: 16.9 mi

Lighthouses7

Cliffs4

Indian Neck: 0.6 mi
Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 17.5 mi
Salten Point: 20.4 mi
Fullers Point: 22.7 mi

Gardens4

Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 2.0 mi
Suzanne's Garden: 13.3 mi
PAAM Sculpture Garden: 13.4 mi
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 24.1 mi

Picnic sites2

Picnick Area: 9.9 mi
Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 16.2 mi

Ghost towns1

Long Point: 11.6 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fox Island Salt Marsh. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Deer Park Hill	S 186°	165 m	10.4 mi
Signal Hill	SW 216°	60 m	14.8 mi
Clay Hill	SW 229°	58 m	23.4 mi
Black Ball Hill	SW 217°	45 m	15.3 mi
Mill Hill	S 176°	41 m	9.1 mi
The Highlands	NNW 345°	41 m	9.5 mi
Green Hill	N 349°	38 m	7.6 mi
Scorton Hill	WSW 237°	35 m	23.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:44	18:16	18:52
June solstice	05:06	19:37	20:20
September equinox	06:28	18:02	18:39
December solstice	07:05	15:28	16:13

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	38	46	55	64	71	71	64	54	45	37
Precip in	3.8	3.6	4.4	4.0	3.3	2.9	2.8	3.0	3.6	4.2	4.5	5.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29800350

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