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Questing Reservation

Questing Reservation from directly overhead

Questing Reservation is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 438 m. Mount Wilcox stands 642 m to the north, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Leffingwell Hill, a peak 0.3 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 11 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.12160, -73.24460

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Leffingwell Hill: 0.3 mi
  • Dry Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Woodruff Mountain: 1.9 mi
  • Cooks Ledge: 2.1 mi
  • Brush Hill: 2.3 mi
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Umpachene Falls Park: 2.4 mi
  • Bidwell Park: 4.2 mi
  • Barnard Memorial Park: 5.5 mi
  • Grove Street Park: 7.4 mi
  • Wood Creek Pond Boat Launch: 7.6 mi
Waterfalls: 44
  • Campbell Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 9.1 mi
  • Lower Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Upper Falls: 9.5 mi
  • Sages Ravine Brook Falls: 10.5 mi
Historic sites: 43
Museums: 40
  • Sheffield Historical Society: 5.6 mi
  • Horse Barn Exhibits: 6.1 mi
  • Bidwell House Museum: 6.1 mi
  • Piggery - Exhibits: 6.2 mi
  • Carriage Barn - Exhibits: 6.2 mi
Artworks: 25
Attractions: 20
Gardens: 17
Cliffs: 14
  • The Beech: 9.7 mi
  • Space Invaders: 9.7 mi
  • Squirrel Wall: 9.8 mi
  • Corps Wall: 9.8 mi
  • Murdock Wall: 9.8 mi
Beaches: 6
Springs: 5
  • Cannavo Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Big Spring: 17.0 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 18.6 mi
  • Hermit spring: 19.9 mi
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 22.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Area: 0.8 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 9.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Questing Reservation. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WilcoxN 351°642 m6.8 mi
South PinnacleW 262°626 m9.1 mi
Dorman MountainNNE 27°595 m9.5 mi
Sky HillN 360°585 m8.6 mi
Bradford MountainSSW 195°584 m9.5 mi
Mount Bushnell-South PeakW 272°583 m9.5 mi
Kingsbury MountainNE 38°581 m8.5 mi
Baldy MountainNNE 20°571 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:1819:5120:33
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1915:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445564696760483828
Precip in4.03.34.23.94.15.04.84.74.95.14.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk 2 SW, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • northern maidenhair fern8 obs
  • Ghost Pipe7 obs
  • Eastern Newt6 obs
  • American Black Bear5 obs
  • red trillium5 obs
  • eastern hemlock4 obs
  • eastern white pine4 obs
  • Acanthocephala terminalis4 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/29785237

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