Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge
Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Signal Hill stands 60 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Pt., a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 23 miles off. 24 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 23.4 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Great Pt.: 0.5 mi
- Great Pt.: 0.6 mi
- Great Point: 0.6 mi
- Great Point: 2.8 mi
- The Haulover: 4.0 mi
- Coskata Beach: 2.6 mi
- Coatue Beach: 5.4 mi
- Jetties Beach: 7.2 mi
- Steps Beach: 7.3 mi
- Quidnet Beach: 7.4 mi
- Coffin Park: 7.6 mi
- Lilly Pond: 7.8 mi
- Greater Light Garden: 8.0 mi
- Lily Pond Park: 8.1 mi
- Consue Springs: 8.2 mi
- Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum: 6.9 mi
- Oldest House: 7.7 mi
- Nantucket Whaling Museum: 7.7 mi
- Peter Foulger Museum: 7.7 mi
- Quaker Meeting House: 8.0 mi
- Fudge Hill: 7.2 mi
- Shawkemo Hills: 7.4 mi
- Sunset Hill: 7.7 mi
- Macys Hill: 7.7 mi
- Folger Hill: 7.9 mi
- Soldier and Sailors Monument: 8.1 mi
- Abiah Folger Franklin Fountain: 8.4 mi
- Sankaty Head Light: 8.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Dwelling: 8.6 mi
- Original Prop: 20.0 mi
- First Congregational Church Bell Tower Climb: 7.7 mi
- Grand Slam Entertainment: 19.5 mi
- Pirates Cove: 20.0 mi
- Stick'n Rudder Aero Tours: 20.8 mi
- Jump On Us!: 21.0 mi
- truck pull-off: 21.8 mi
- rest area: 21.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 22.1 mi
- truck pull-off: 22.2 mi
- truck pull-off: 22.6 mi
- Squam Head: 5.9 mi
- Nantucket Cliffs: 7.5 mi
- Sankaty Head: 8.8 mi
- Top of Eroding Coastal Bank (Spring 2025): 19.0 mi
- Wasque Point: 21.0 mi
- Brant Point Light: 7.3 mi
- Chatham Light: 20.0 mi
- Oil House: 20.0 mi
- U.S. Coast Guard Station: 20.1 mi
- Oldest House Kitchen Garden: 7.7 mi
- Hadwen House Gardens: 8.1 mi
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 21.1 mi
- The Great Green Whale: 21.2 mi
- Saint John Paul: 21.5 mi
- Whale Tail: 23.9 mi
- Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Hill | NNW 344° | 60 m | 24.7 mi |
| Black Ball Hill | NNW 343° | 45 m | 24.5 mi |
| Hokum Rock | NNW 345° | 34 m | 24.4 mi |
| Folger Hill | SSE 164° | 33 m | 7.9 mi |
| German hill | NNW 338° | 30 m | 22.3 mi |
| Sampson Hill | W 268° | 28 m | 22.5 mi |
| Shawkemo Hills | S 178° | 26 m | 7.4 mi |
| Sauls Hills | SSE 164° | 23 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:36 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:03 | 18:39 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 15:30 | 16:14 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 69 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nantucket MEM AP, 10 mi away.
- Grey Seal44 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull18 obs
- American Herring Gull18 obs
- Common Eider12 obs
- Sanderling8 obs
- Cory's Shearwater8 obs
- Common Tern7 obs
- Semipalmated Plover7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/29800733
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