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Hyannis Ponds Wildlife Management Area

Hyannis Ponds Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Hyannis Ponds Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the east-northeast, 13 miles off. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 1.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1994-06-29
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.68282, -70.26896
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Prospect Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Cobbs Hill: 1.8 mi
  • German hill: 3.1 mi
  • Shootflying Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Sunset Hill: 4.1 mi
Parks
  • Sandy Pond Recreation Area Park: 1.6 mi
  • Park Square: 1.9 mi
  • Chase Brook Park: 2.2 mi
  • Mill Creek Park: 2.2 mi
  • Hyannis Village Green: 2.2 mi
Beaches
Museums: 47
Historic sites: 45
Attractions: 22
  • Putter's Paradise: 1.8 mi
  • Jump On Us!: 2.1 mi
  • Wackenhammer's Clockwork Arcade and Carousel: 2.5 mi
  • Pirates Cove: 3.3 mi
  • Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 15
Gardens: 15
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 11.2 mi
  • Mashpee Community Garden: 11.4 mi
  • McInnes Garden: 12.9 mi
  • Dexter Rhododendron Garden: 13.0 mi
Artworks: 13
Lighthouses: 12
Rest areas: 11
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 1.0 mi
  • truck pull-off: 1.5 mi
  • truck pull-off: 3.9 mi
  • rest area: 5.0 mi
  • truck pull-off: 6.9 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnick Area: 13.9 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
  • Herring Run Recreational Area: 16.3 mi
  • Bourne Recreation Area: 17.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.1 miles of Hyannis Ponds Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillENE 67°165 m13.1 mi
Pine HillW 277°93 m15.4 mi
Telegraph HillWNW 287°85 m11.7 mi
Flatrock HillWNW 290°82 m14.8 mi
Avery HillWNW 283°80 m15.3 mi
Discovery HillWNW 286°77 m10.7 mi
Deer Horn HillW 265°71 m16.6 mi
Discovery HillWNW 290°61 m15.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4518:1718:53
June solstice05:0719:3820:20
September equinox06:2918:0418:40
December solstice07:0615:3016:14

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323338475766737264554537
Precip in3.93.24.33.93.43.12.73.33.84.34.14.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hyannis Barnstable Muni AP, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29800420

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