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Urban Forestry Center

Urban Forestry Center from directly overhead

Urban Forestry Center is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Third Hill stands 104 m to the north, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Sagamore Creek Headlands, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Coastal Byway passes 0.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.04890, -70.76321

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Sagamore Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Peverly Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Boatswain Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Hobbs Hill: 2.7 mi
Parks
  • Lafayette Playground: 1.0 mi
  • Ward Park: 1.1 mi
  • Portsmouth Plains: 1.2 mi
  • Community Campus: 1.3 mi
  • Clough Field: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
Museums: 58
Gardens: 47
Beaches: 44
Artworks: 31
Attractions: 18
Cliffs: 16
  • Dover Bluff: 11.4 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 11.8 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 11.8 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 11.8 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 11.8 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Piscassic Falls: 9.6 mi
  • Second Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Packer's Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Great Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Lower Falls: 10.3 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Birthday Bay: 1.3 mi
  • Fort McClary Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 6.5 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 6.6 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 6.7 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 9.2 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 9.3 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 12.8 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 13.2 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 20.1 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 4
  • Jailhouse Spring: 10.7 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 15.0 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Rail Spring: 20.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Urban Forestry Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Third HillN 354°104 m8.7 mi
Stratham HillW 264°88 m6.4 mi
Great HillN 350°87 m8.0 mi
Jewell HillW 259°81 m6.7 mi
Raitt HillN 354°74 m7.9 mi
Oakland HillW 262°73 m10.4 mi
Long HillWSW 258°70 m6.3 mi
Swasey HillN 357°69 m9.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1818:55
June solstice05:0519:4320:27
September equinox06:3118:0518:42
December solstice07:1215:2516:12

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242734455565706962504030
Precip in3.63.64.84.64.04.63.93.74.14.94.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenland, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • European Green Crab33 obs
  • Common Periwinkle32 obs
  • Common Eider30 obs
  • Canada Goose28 obs
  • Rambur's Forktail26 obs
  • alder buckthorn22 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee21 obs
  • Great Blue Heron20 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/47798734

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