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Settlement Quarry Preserve

Settlement Quarry Preserve from directly overhead

Settlement Quarry Preserve is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Sawyer Mountain stands 148 m to the south, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Crystal Cove Preserve, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Island Heritage Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates44.17626, -68.63975

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Small Cove Park: 1.8 mi
  • Mariner's Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
  • Nature Area: 3.2 mi
  • Deer Isle Ballfield and Playground: 3.6 mi
  • Lily Pond Park: 4.0 mi
Peaks
  • Brays Mountain: 2.6 mi
  • Burnt Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Jims Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Stinson Point: 3.9 mi
  • Conary Head: 4.8 mi
Beaches
Museums: 34
Cliffs: 21
Historic sites: 20
  • Isle Au Haut Rural School: 6.9 mi
  • Sarah Smith Foundation: 10.2 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 10.4 mi
  • House Foundation: 10.4 mi
  • Store Foundation: 10.5 mi
Gardens: 19
  • Tanglewood Garden: 20.8 mi
  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 21.0 mi
  • Farnsworth Sculpture Garden: 23.9 mi
  • Heath: 24.9 mi
  • Mountain: 24.9 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Artworks: 6
Springs: 6
  • Lurvey Spring: 17.5 mi
  • Jesuit Spring: 18.2 mi
  • Birch Spring: 20.9 mi
  • Maple Spring: 21.3 mi
  • Fern Spring: 21.6 mi
Attractions: 5
  • Town of Isle au Haut -Beach: 10.3 mi
  • High Hopes Lobster Boat: 19.1 mi
  • The Bubble: 22.2 mi
  • Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 24.2 mi
  • Thunder Hole: 24.5 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Vinal Falls: 11.8 mi
  • Man O War Waterfall: 18.8 mi
  • Hadlock Falls: 20.8 mi
  • Duck Brook Waterfall: 24.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
  • Thompson Island Picnic Area: 22.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Settlement Quarry Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sawyer MountainS 173°148 m8.0 mi
Caterpillar MountainN 354°148 m10.8 mi
Rocky MountainS 172°144 m7.8 mi
Jerusalem MountainS 175°127 m8.8 mi
Seven Star HillN 9°108 m14.5 mi
Winche MountainNNW 339°92 m11.5 mi
Backwood MountainNNW 329°82 m13.9 mi
Duck Harbor MountainS 183°80 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3918:0918:47
June solstice04:5219:3820:22
September equinox06:2217:5618:34
December solstice07:0715:1215:59

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202230415261676659483727
Precip in3.93.24.14.43.94.33.23.14.15.44.74.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belfast, 23 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/700006644

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