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Mount Holyoke Range State Park

Mount Holyoke Range State Park from directly overhead

Mount Holyoke Range State Park is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the northeast, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Fortier Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.

What the record says

Built
1975-07-15

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.31393, -72.47494

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Lake Vale Cemetery: 2.1 mi
  • South Amherst Common: 2.4 mi
  • Austin Gaughan Memorial Field: 3.4 mi
  • Groff Park: 3.8 mi
  • Foley Field: 4.1 mi
Historic sites
  • DonaldCurtis Workshop: 2.5 mi
  • Amethyst Brook Labryinth: 4.5 mi
  • Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.7 mi
  • Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.7 mi
  • Classic Car Junkyard: 4.9 mi
Attractions: 57
Museums: 53
Gardens: 42
Artworks: 30
Cliffs: 19
Beaches: 14
Ghost towns: 4
Waterfalls: 4
  • Bear's Den Falls: 17.5 mi
  • Goldmine Brook Falls: 23.5 mi
  • Cascade: 24.2 mi
  • Hobo Falls: 24.4 mi
Springs: 3
  • Rd: 12.3 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 12.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 12.4 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 13.2 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Mount Holyoke Range State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LincolnNE 37°375 m4.4 mi
Pine HillNE 36°371 m6.3 mi
East HillENE 70°338 m4.4 mi
Mount NorwottockWSW 252°337 m1.9 mi
Prescott HillNE 46°336 m8.9 mi
Mount PleasantNE 47°335 m9.5 mi
DeadtopWSW 244°333 m9.6 mi
Juckett HillE 82°327 m5.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1419:4820:31
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1615:3616:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635465867727062503930
Precip in3.42.93.53.83.74.54.14.14.64.73.43.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Amherst, 6 mi away.

  • pitch pine64 obs
  • round-lobed hepatica43 obs
  • pink lady's slipper38 obs
  • Common Garter Snake31 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage31 obs
  • American beech27 obs
  • striped wintergreen27 obs
  • multiflora rose26 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/29908588

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