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Purchade Brook Wildlife Management Area

Purchade Brook Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Purchade Brook Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Copicut Hill stands 109 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 21 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1996
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.91590, -70.93292

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Oliver Mill Park: 1.2 mi
  • Cons Land-Oliver Mill Park: 1.3 mi
  • Westside Playground: 1.7 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
  • Field of Dreams: 2.5 mi
Peaks
  • Nemasket Hill: 1.8 mi
  • White Oak Island: 2.0 mi
  • Barden Hills: 2.9 mi
  • Burial Hill: 3.9 mi
  • Le Baron Hill: 4.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Milo monument: 4.0 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 6.4 mi
  • Anchor Monument: 6.6 mi
  • West Bridgewater Civil War Monument: 8.1 mi
  • Plymouth County Hospital: 9.5 mi
Beaches
Attractions: 53
  • National Sailors Home Water Tower: 5.5 mi
  • Edaville: 9.5 mi
  • Old Shed: 11.0 mi
  • Old Shed: 11.0 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.7 mi
Artworks: 47
  • Pratt Memorial Statue: 2.7 mi
  • Myles Standish Legs: 8.2 mi
  • The Bell: 11.6 mi
  • Cupid's Kiss Statue: 11.6 mi
  • Oliver Ames: 13.8 mi
Gardens: 40
Cliffs: 27
Picnic sites: 24
Rest areas: 9
  • Massachusetts Tourist Information Center: 14.0 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 16.0 mi
  • State Route 3 Parking Area Northbound: 16.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 18.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 18.8 mi
Lighthouses: 3
Springs: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rock Falls: 19.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Purchade Brook Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Copicut HillSSW 206°109 m14.9 mi
Monks HillENE 74°83 m11.3 mi
Great Meadow HillW 260°78 m14.9 mi
Tinkham HillSSW 205°64 m5.8 mi
Breakneck HillSW 216°64 m11.0 mi
Flagg HillE 96°64 m14.9 mi
Locust HillN 354°62 m12.0 mi
Pinnacle HillE 92°62 m13.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4818:1918:56
June solstice05:0919:4120:23
September equinox06:3218:0618:43
December solstice07:0915:3116:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F282936465666727063524234
Precip in4.43.85.84.83.64.13.33.84.24.94.45.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middleboro, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29690185

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