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Fox Mountain Conservation Area

Fox Mountain Conservation Area from directly overhead

Fox Mountain Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. Great Blue Hill stands 193 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Packard Farm Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 7.5 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Easton Conservation Commission
Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.04168, -71.13775

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Edwin A. Keach Park: 0.5 mi
  • New Pond Dam: 1.2 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.4 mi
  • Blackbrook Nature Reserve: 1.5 mi
Attractions
  • Ames Boulder: 1.9 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 3.4 mi
  • Old Shed: 3.8 mi
  • Old Shed: 3.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 5.0 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Artworks
  • Oliver Ames: 2.5 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 5.2 mi
  • EARLY HISTORY OF STOUGHTON MURAL: 6.1 mi
  • Deborah Sampson: 6.2 mi
  • TOOTHY!!!: 6.2 mi
Peaks
Gardens
Beaches
  • Turner Pond Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Fishermans Beach: 10.4 mi
  • Whiting's Pond Beach: 10.7 mi
  • Barbara Road Beach: 10.9 mi
  • Sweatt Beach: 11.3 mi
Cliffs: 48
  • King Philip Cave: 3.3 mi
  • King Philip Rock: 3.4 mi
  • Breakneck Ledge: 12.4 mi
  • The Shield: 14.1 mi
  • S Wall: 14.9 mi
Picnic sites: 38
  • Oak Grove: 2.0 mi
  • 12: 9.5 mi
  • 11: 9.5 mi
  • 8: 9.5 mi
  • 13: 9.5 mi
Rest areas: 11
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 7.6 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 8.3 mi
  • Westwood Rest Area: 12.2 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 17.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 17.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Springs: 2
  • Pakomet Spring: 12.1 mi
  • Roger Williams Spring: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock Falls: 13.0 mi
  • Cascade Brook Falls: 24.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Fox Mountain Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great Blue HillN 6°193 m11.8 mi
Moose HillNW 326°163 m6.9 mi
Hancock HillN 10°155 m12.4 mi
Buck HillNNE 15°151 m12.4 mi
Hemenway HillN 9°140 m12.3 mi
Bluff HillNW 321°138 m6.4 mi
Tucker HillNNE 13°133 m12.1 mi
Wolcott HillN 8°132 m12.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4918:2018:57
June solstice05:1019:4220:24
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, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29859430

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