Galilee Bird Sanctuary
Galilee Bird Sanctuary is a nature reserve in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Casey Hill stands 138 m to the north-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Fishermen's Memorial State Park Campground, a park 0.5 miles away. Ministerial Road passes 3.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 8.2 mi off the Shannock Road
- 13.8 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
- 12.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fishermen's Memorial State Park Campground: 0.5 mi
- Compass Rose: 1.3 mi
- Rose Nulman Park: 1.4 mi
- South Kingstown Town Beach: 2.6 mi
- Benjamin Robinson Memorial Square: 4.2 mi
- Bluff Hill: 0.6 mi
- High Point: 0.7 mi
- Strawberry Hill: 1.1 mi
- Jumping Hill: 2.0 mi
- Blackberry Hill: 2.8 mi
- South Shore Management Area: 4.0 mi
- Kimball Refuge: 9.7 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 10.4 mi
- Crawley Preserve: 10.8 mi
- Marion Eppley Wildlife Sanctuary: 11.0 mi
- International Museum of World War II: 4.3 mi
- South County Museum: 4.8 mi
- Rhode Island Railroad Museum: 8.1 mi
- Frosty Drew Memorial Nature Center: 8.4 mi
- Jamestown Museum: 10.6 mi
- Point Judith Fishermens's Memorial: 1.2 mi
- PS3 Gill: 1.5 mi
- Camp Fuller Bell: 2.3 mi
- South Kingstown Veterans Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Sari's Sanctuary: 4.4 mi
- Camp Fuller Waterfront: 2.2 mi
- Ninigret Beach: 7.6 mi
- Collins Beach: 9.3 mi
- Castle Hill Beach: 9.4 mi
- East Beach: 9.6 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 4.4 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 7.6 mi
- Florence Nightingale Statue: 8.0 mi
- Giant Troll Greta Granit: 8.3 mi
- Giant Troll Erik Rock: 8.4 mi
- Bass Rock Road Waterfront: 3.0 mi
- Newton Avenue Waterfront: 3.4 mi
- The Towers: 4.4 mi
- Labyrinth: 5.4 mi
- Hellcat Propeller: 8.5 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 7.3 mi
- Beavertail Light: 7.3 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 15.6 mi
- Block Island Southeast Light: 15.6 mi
- Block Island South East Light: 15.7 mi
- Lion Head: 7.9 mi
- Rams Head: 9.2 mi
- Clay Head: 11.4 mi
- Marys Seat: 12.9 mi
- The Bluff: 14.1 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 7.9 mi
- Florence Nightingale Memorial Garden: 8.0 mi
- The Blue Garden: 10.5 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 16.2 mi
- Herb Garden: 16.4 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 8.4 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 8.6 mi
- Big Beach: 18.1 mi
- Little Beach: 18.4 mi
- The Falls: 10.2 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 19.2 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 19.4 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 21.1 mi
- Factory Pond: 5.2 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 11.5 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 18.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 15.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 15.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Galilee Bird Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casey Hill | NNW 340° | 138 m | 14.5 mi |
| Pine Hill | NW 325° | 110 m | 11.0 mi |
| Coon Hill | WNW 296° | 100 m | 13.9 mi |
| Yorker Hill | N 350° | 98 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NNW 344° | 97 m | 9.3 mi |
| Sherman Hill | N 356° | 88 m | 8.9 mi |
| Wilbur Hill | NW 318° | 88 m | 10.8 mi |
| Shannock Hill | NW 310° | 82 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:22 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:13 | 19:42 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:09 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:36 | 16:20 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 52 | 42 | 34 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kingston 1 W, 7 mi away.
- rugosa rose136 obs
- American Herring Gull105 obs
- Common Tern62 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull61 obs
- Ring-billed Gull53 obs
- Common Eider49 obs
- Osprey48 obs
- marsh elder43 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/154820692
Day trips start here
- East Matunuck · 2 mi
- Matunuck · 2 mi
- Wakefield · 4 mi
- South Kingstown · 5 mi
- Narragansett · 6 mi
- Charlestown · 7 mi
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