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Hackett and Minot Trails

Hackett and Minot Trails from directly overhead

Hackett and Minot Trails is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Bradbury Mountain stands 143 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Harpswell Historical Society Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away.

What to expect

Operated by
Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates43.80036, -69.99024

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Mitchell Field: 2.1 mi
  • Municipal Hiking Trail Parking Lot: 2.4 mi
  • Houghton Graves Park: 2.8 mi
  • Trufant-Summerton Ballfield: 3.4 mi
  • Mackerel Cove Lot: 4.8 mi
Peaks
Gardens
  • Organic Vegetable Fields: 4.5 mi
  • Organic Gardens: 4.6 mi
  • Floratorium: 6.8 mi
  • FCS Community Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Freeport Community Garden (at Elm Street): 7.0 mi
Attractions: 60
Historic sites
Beaches: 51
Artworks: 47
  • Lobstermans Statue: 5.7 mi
  • Labyrinth in the Woods: 6.7 mi
  • Time Out: 7.3 mi
  • Scenting the Wind: 7.6 mi
  • Polar Bear Statue: 7.6 mi
Museums: 46
Cliffs: 7
  • Morse Point: 10.7 mi
  • Hockomock Head: 13.5 mi
  • White Head Cliff: 14.6 mi
  • The Cliffs: 14.7 mi
  • Cod Ledges: 15.3 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • First Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Presumpscot Falls: 15.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Hackett and Minot Trails. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bradbury MountainNW 306°143 m11.9 mi
Tryon MountainNW 308°119 m12.8 mi
Cox PinnacleNNW 340°108 m10.4 mi
Marston HillWNW 298°108 m12.7 mi
Bibber HillNW 310°105 m12.1 mi
Oak HillNNW 342°85 m7.5 mi
Hedgehog MountainWNW 304°85 m8.2 mi
Fuller MountainE 83°81 m7.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4418:1418:52
June solstice04:5919:4220:26
September equinox06:2818:0118:39
December solstice07:1215:1916:06

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212332435463696860493828
Precip in3.53.54.14.34.14.23.53.34.26.05.24.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brunswick NAS, 7 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1348627578

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