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Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary from directly overhead

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south-southwest, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 7.2 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Mass Audubon
Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.88246, -69.99818
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks: 60
  • Mill Field: 0.6 mi
  • Mill Field: 0.6 mi
  • Three Sisters of Nauset: 2.6 mi
  • Wiley Park: 3.4 mi
  • Windmill Green: 3.8 mi
Beaches
Peaks: 42
  • Little Beach Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Cannon Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Skiff Hill: 4.5 mi
  • Fort Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Gross Hill: 4.8 mi
Historic sites: 38
Museums: 31
Artworks: 26
  • Chime: 0.2 mi
  • The Catch: 6.9 mi
  • They Also Faced the Sea: 14.9 mi
  • Homage to the Fishermen (1989): 15.1 mi
  • Bubbles the Humpback: 15.1 mi
Attractions: 13
Rest areas: 10
  • truck pull-off: 9.8 mi
  • truck pull-off: 11.5 mi
  • truck pull-off: 12.3 mi
  • truck pull-off: 14.5 mi
  • rest area: 15.9 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Gardens: 4
Cliffs: 4
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnick Area: 8.2 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillSSW 193°165 m8.8 mi
Signal HillSW 223°60 m14.0 mi
Clay HillSW 234°58 m23.0 mi
Black Ball HillSW 223°45 m14.4 mi
Mill HillS 181°41 m7.3 mi
The HighlandsNNW 344°41 m11.3 mi
Green HillNNW 346°38 m9.4 mi
Scorton HillWSW 241°35 m23.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4418:1518:52
June solstice05:0619:3720:19
September equinox06:2818:0218:39
December solstice07:0515:2816:13

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323338465564717164544537
Precip in3.83.64.44.03.32.92.83.03.64.24.55.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chatham Muni AP, 14 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mud Fiddler Crab314 obs
  • bearberry193 obs
  • Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab173 obs
  • Wild Turkey148 obs
  • Painted Turtle148 obs
  • pitch pine120 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab111 obs
  • Carolina Sea Lavender109 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/29848715

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