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Quisset Wildlife Management Area

Quisset Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Quisset Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 130 m. Bald Hill stands 210 m to the west, 7.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Forest, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Great and Breakneck Hill Roads passes 12 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
2007-06-27
Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.06455, -71.55789

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Chestnut Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Inman Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Daniels Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Quisset Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Waterbug Hill: 1.9 mi
Parks
  • Founders Park: 3.0 mi
  • Skull Rock Lock Trailhead: 3.0 mi
  • Central (Stanley) Woolen Mill District Park: 3.4 mi
  • Tupperware Park: 3.5 mi
  • Roosevelt Park: 3.6 mi
Artworks
Museums
Attractions
  • Cumberlandite: 6.7 mi
  • Teetering Rock: 8.0 mi
  • Chattering Rock: 8.1 mi
  • Devil's Corncrib: 9.2 mi
  • Fat Man's Misery: 9.2 mi
Gardens: 52
  • Janet Colby Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Eric J. Cook Memorial Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Rain Gardens: 13.0 mi
  • Julia's Garden: 13.3 mi
  • Community Garden Southborough: 15.5 mi
Beaches: 37
Picnic sites: 20
  • Site #36: 12.6 mi
  • 1: 13.1 mi
  • 36: 13.2 mi
  • 35: 13.2 mi
  • 16-34: 13.2 mi
Cliffs: 18
  • The Wall: 8.1 mi
  • Condo Rock: 8.1 mi
  • Pond Cave: 12.7 mi
  • Fatboy Boulder: 12.7 mi
  • Lower Heart: 13.1 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 10.3 mi
  • Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 10.4 mi
  • Thirsty Beaver: 13.1 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 14.4 mi
  • Interstate 95 Rest Area: 14.8 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cascade Brook Falls: 12.8 mi
  • Ponogansett Falls: 19.8 mi
  • Cargill Falls: 20.9 mi
Springs: 1
  • Roger Williams Spring: 17.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillW 261°210 m7.9 mi
Pratt HillNNW 340°181 m8.7 mi
Misoe HillNNW 345°180 m4.5 mi
Woonsocket HillS 178°180 m6.0 mi
Castle HillWNW 287°176 m6.3 mi
Peppercorn HillN 359°174 m8.5 mi
Magomiscock HillN 6°171 m6.2 mi
Cooper HillSSW 204°171 m9.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5118:2218:58
June solstice05:1119:4420:26
September equinox06:3418:0918:45
December solstice07:1215:3316:18

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283138495968747265534334
Precip in4.43.74.94.73.64.33.64.04.25.14.25.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woonsocket, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29782869

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