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Webster Crossing Open Space

Webster Crossing Open Space from directly overhead

Webster Crossing Open Space is a nature reserve in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 21 m. Atherton Hill stands 178 m to the west-southwest, 10 miles off. PEQUAWKET TRAIL SCENIC BYWAY passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Freeport Conservation Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.85436, -70.15567
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Hunter Road Fields: 1.2 mi
  • Pownal Road Fields: 1.4 mi
  • Discovery Park: 2.6 mi
  • Memorial Park: 2.8 mi
  • Leon Gorman Park: 3.0 mi
Peaks
Gardens
  • FCS Community Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Freeport Community Garden (at Elm Street): 2.6 mi
  • Yarmouth Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Yarmouth Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Organic Gardens: 4.4 mi
Historic sites
Beaches: 57
Attractions: 56
  • Desert of Maine: 0.3 mi
  • Big Indian: 2.6 mi
  • LL Bean Boot: 2.6 mi
  • "The Final Charge" (Locked-horm Moose Display): 2.6 mi
  • Bradbury Mountain State Park: 3.3 mi
Museums: 41
Artworks: 39
  • Can't Stop Hip Hop: 3.7 mi
  • Frog Rock: 8.0 mi
  • Labyrinth in the Woods: 9.1 mi
  • Blessed Virgin Mary: 10.1 mi
  • Holy Trinty: 10.2 mi
Cliffs: 9
  • White Head Cliff: 14.5 mi
  • The Cliffs: 14.6 mi
  • Cod Ledges: 15.1 mi
  • Cunner Ledges: 15.2 mi
  • Pismire Bluff: 17.0 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • First Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Presumpscot Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Cascade Falls Waterfall: 24.9 mi
Lighthouses: 3
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.5 miles of Webster Crossing Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Atherton HillWSW 258°178 m10.1 mi
Dutton HillW 268°175 m9.3 mi
Adams HillW 279°174 m11.9 mi
Hunt HillW 269°153 m8.6 mi
Blackstrap HillSW 231°151 m10.5 mi
Little HillNW 316°151 m12.0 mi
Gloucester HillNW 315°150 m9.7 mi
Pumpkin HillWNW 297°150 m12.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4518:1518:53
June solstice04:5919:4320:27
September equinox06:2818:0218:40
December solstice07:1215:1916:07

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222533445464706961493928
Precip in3.53.34.04.43.64.73.73.84.35.44.74.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gray, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1348272544

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