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Pearly Lake Wildlife Management Area

Pearly Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Pearly Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 327 m. Mount Monadnock stands 965 m to the north-northwest, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Fullam Hill, a peak 1.4 miles away. Mohawk Trail - MA passes 18 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.78238, -72.07679

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Mountain Brook Reservoir Conservation Easement: 1.9 mi
  • Centennial Park: 3.3 mi
  • Humiston Park: 3.5 mi
  • Town Common: 3.5 mi
  • Rindge Veteran's Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Troy WW1 Memorial: 6.2 mi
  • Troy Veterans Memorial: 6.2 mi
  • Cheshire Railroad Depot Monument: 6.2 mi
  • Troy Veterans Memorial: 6.2 mi
  • Troy's Hero Memorial: 6.2 mi
Artworks
  • Clyde II: 7.0 mi
  • Armillary: 8.6 mi
  • Cultural Cocoon: 9.2 mi
  • South Royalston Chicken: 11.1 mi
  • Schoolboy of 1850: 13.0 mi
Museums: 34
  • Rindge Historcal Museum: 4.2 mi
  • Troy Historical Society: 6.2 mi
  • Troy Station: 6.2 mi
  • Winchendon Historical Society: 7.1 mi
  • Mariposa Museum: 9.2 mi
Attractions: 23
Cliffs: 22
  • Black Precipice: 5.5 mi
  • Billings Fold: 5.7 mi
  • Troy Cliffs: 8.5 mi
  • Jacob Hill: 8.8 mi
  • Table Rock: 20.1 mi
Beaches: 20
  • Sandy Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Jowder's Cove Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Contoocook Lake Public Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 5.1 mi
  • Ranger Beach: 5.9 mi
Waterfalls: 19
  • Falls Brook Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Royalston Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Spirit Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Doane's Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Doane's Falls: 11.3 mi
Gardens: 9
  • Noahs Ark: 7.0 mi
  • John Pierce Garden: 8.6 mi
  • Phillipston Community Garden: 13.6 mi
  • St. Paul's Community Garden: 15.0 mi
  • Sundial Community Garden: 19.3 mi
Springs: 3
  • Falcon Spring: 5.0 mi
  • The Ashburnham Spring: 12.9 mi
  • River Road Spring: 24.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Pearly Lake Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount MonadnockNNW 344°965 m5.7 mi
Bald RockNNW 343°790 m5.2 mi
Monte RosaNNW 340°749 m5.4 mi
Burton PeakENE 76°605 m9.6 mi
Gap Mountain - South PeakNW 309°579 m4.0 mi
Little Monadnock MountainW 274°571 m6.6 mi
New Ipswich MountainESE 107°563 m8.5 mi
Gap Mountain - North PeakNW 310°561 m4.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2319:01
June solstice05:1119:4820:31
September equinox06:3618:1018:48
December solstice07:1615:3216:18

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432455766716962493829
Precip in3.33.44.03.83.74.34.34.04.35.13.84.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jaffrey Silver RCH Airpark, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1408194108

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