Pettengill Farm
Pettengill Farm is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 18 m. Atherton Hill stands 178 m to the west, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Field Estuary Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 27 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Freeport Historical Society
How to reach it
- 26.6 mi off the PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY
Named places within 25 miles
- Field Estuary Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Mill Stream Landing: 0.6 mi
- Tidebrook Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Quarry Woods: 0.7 mi
- Mast Landing Audubon Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Porter's Landing: 0.9 mi
- Leon Gorman Park: 1.0 mi
- Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
- Discovery Park: 1.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 1.4 mi
- Torrey Hill: 0.9 mi
- Kelsey Hill: 1.0 mi
- Winston Hill: 2.3 mi
- Hedgehog Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Brimstone Hill: 2.6 mi
- Old Farmhouse Foundation: 1.0 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Schooner Windfall: 3.1 mi
- Eartha: 5.0 mi
- Monument E: 6.6 mi
- "The Final Charge" (Locked-horm Moose Display): 1.3 mi
- LL Bean Boot: 1.3 mi
- Big Indian: 3.8 mi
- Desert of Maine: 3.8 mi
- Bradbury Mountain State Park: 6.0 mi
- FCS Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Organic Gardens: 1.4 mi
- Freeport Community Garden (at Elm Street): 1.4 mi
- Organic Vegetable Fields: 1.6 mi
- Yarmouth Community Garden: 4.8 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 6.1 mi
- Coffin Pond: 6.8 mi
- Sea Cove Beach: 8.3 mi
- Chandler Cove Beach: 9.2 mi
- Thomas Point Beach: 10.0 mi
- Bustins Island Historical Society: 3.6 mi
- Desert of Maine Farm Museum: 3.8 mi
- Harpswell Historical Society Museum: 5.8 mi
- Yarmouth Historical Society: 6.2 mi
- Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum: 7.2 mi
- Frog Rock: 5.4 mi
- Labyrinth in the Woods: 5.9 mi
- Can't Stop Hip Hop: 6.5 mi
- Blessed Virgin Mary: 7.1 mi
- Time Out: 7.1 mi
- White Head Cliff: 15.0 mi
- The Cliffs: 15.2 mi
- Cod Ledges: 15.7 mi
- Cunner Ledges: 15.9 mi
- Morse Point: 16.3 mi
- Doubling Point Front Range Light: 14.4 mi
- Doubling Point Rear Range Light: 14.4 mi
- Bug Light: 15.4 mi
- First Falls: 6.0 mi
- Presumpscot Falls: 13.0 mi
- Hancock Beach Picnic Ground: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Pettengill Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atherton Hill | W 263° | 178 m | 13.7 mi |
| Dutton Hill | W 270° | 175 m | 13.0 mi |
| Hunt Hill | W 271° | 153 m | 12.4 mi |
| Blackstrap Hill | WSW 243° | 151 m | 13.4 mi |
| Gloucester Hill | NW 304° | 150 m | 12.9 mi |
| Bradbury Mountain | NW 307° | 143 m | 6.3 mi |
| Bruce Hill | W 260° | 136 m | 9.5 mi |
| Poplar Ridge | WSW 254° | 133 m | 13.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:15 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 04:59 | 19:43 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:28 | 18:02 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:19 | 16:06 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 23 | 32 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brunswick NAS, 8 mi away.
- pink lady's slipper34 obs
- white baneberry34 obs
- Monarch31 obs
- Ghost Pipe31 obs
- Canada mayflower28 obs
- Osprey28 obs
- bluebead lily26 obs
- sensitive fern26 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/320212397
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