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McHatton Brook Preserve

McHatton Brook Preserve from directly overhead

McHatton Brook Preserve is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 32 m. Tunk Mountain stands 325 m to the west-southwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Popple Hill Preserve, a nature reserve 1.4 miles away. BLACKWOODS SCENIC BYWAY passes 4.3 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Downeast Salmon Federation
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.67148, -67.97885

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks: 48
  • Cable Pool Park: 4.8 mi
  • Donnell Pond Public Reserved Land (Tunk Lake Area): 5.1 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial Park: 5.4 mi
  • Stewart Park: 5.7 mi
  • Unionville Ballfield: 10.0 mi
Gardens: 20
  • Turrets Seaside Garden: 22.5 mi
  • Beatrix Farrand Gardens: 22.5 mi
  • Newlin Garden: 22.5 mi
  • COA Community Garden: 22.5 mi
  • Coniferous Woods: 24.1 mi
Beaches: 17
  • Black Beach: 9.5 mi
  • Schoodic Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Jordan Beach: 11.2 mi
  • Flanders Pond Beach: 11.7 mi
  • Molasses Pond Beach: 12.7 mi
Cliffs: 16
Museums: 9
  • Ruggles House Museum: 12.3 mi
  • Hancock Historical Society: 16.7 mi
  • Winter Harbor Historical Society: 19.9 mi
  • Historical Museum: 20.0 mi
  • George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History: 22.6 mi
Historic sites: 7
  • Paul Dudley Sargent: 15.3 mi
  • The Doctor John B. Ells Pier: 22.3 mi
  • Eden's Civil War Monument: 22.6 mi
  • Old Farm Estate: 23.1 mi
  • Morris K And Maria De Witt Jesup: 24.4 mi
Attractions: 6
  • World's Largest Lobster Trap: 13.4 mi
  • Balsam Valley Ampitheater: 15.1 mi
  • Maine Coast Sardine History Museum: 21.2 mi
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch: 22.3 mi
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 22.3 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Long Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Upper Holmes Falls: 17.1 mi
  • Mariaville Falls: 22.2 mi
  • Duck Brook Waterfall: 23.1 mi
  • Ellsworth Falls: 24.0 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Springs: 3
  • Big Chief Spring: 16.7 mi
  • Red Rock Spring: 23.7 mi
  • Sieur de Monts Spring: 24.2 mi
Natural arches: 2
  • Double Arch: 17.4 mi
  • Cathedral Rock: 21.4 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Baxter The Lobster: 22.4 mi
  • Water Street Mural: 23.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Long Cove: 14.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of McHatton Brook Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tunk MountainWSW 249°325 m6.1 mi
Spruce MountainNNW 347°321 m11.7 mi
Schoodic MountainSW 231°319 m10.7 mi
Black MountainSW 229°304 m9.0 mi
Catherine MountainSW 235°284 m6.6 mi
Caribou MountainSW 236°259 m7.8 mi
Schoodic NubbleSW 232°202 m11.0 mi
Peaked MountainSSW 213°201 m9.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3618:0618:44
June solstice04:4719:3720:22
September equinox06:2017:5318:31
December solstice07:0715:0615:55

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192231425260666659483827
Precip in4.33.84.64.33.93.53.43.63.55.05.15.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jonesboro, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1365795574

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