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Bay Island Park

Bay Island Park from directly overhead

Bay Island Park is a park in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. Shrub Hill stands 125 m to the west-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Calf Pasture Point Beach, a beach 3.1 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 4.2 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
19 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.64149, -71.34839

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Historic sites
  • U.S. Coast Guard: 4.1 mi
  • Founder's Brook Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • Fort Butts Revolutionary War Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • Patriots Park: 5.4 mi
  • Armory of the Kentish Guards: 5.5 mi
Attractions: 60
Artworks
  • The Sky Improvement Society's Home for Troubled Clouds: 4.3 mi
  • Statue of Roger Williams: 4.6 mi
  • Heritage Art Gallery and Glass Studio: 6.0 mi
  • Wes Jackson Ecological Pier: 7.1 mi
  • Aldo Leopold Ecological Pier: 7.2 mi
Peaks
  • Ferry Hill: 4.4 mi
  • The Mount: 4.6 mi
  • Fort Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Fox Hill: 4.9 mi
  • Almy Hill: 5.1 mi
Nature reserves
  • Tanyard Reservoir: 4.7 mi
  • Silver Creek: 4.8 mi
  • Moriarty: 4.9 mi
  • Naomi Street: 5.0 mi
  • DelVecchio Farm: 5.0 mi
Beaches: 58
Gardens: 26
Picnic sites: 23
  • Big Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Little Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Site #36: 18.8 mi
  • 4: 24.7 mi
  • 6: 24.7 mi
Cliffs: 18
Waterfalls: 7
Rest areas: 7
  • Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 10.3 mi
  • Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 10.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 17.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 17.6 mi
  • Thirsty Beaver: 18.9 mi
Springs: 4
  • Elizabeth Spring: 5.6 mi
  • Plum Point Spring: 8.4 mi
  • Roger Williams Spring: 13.5 mi
  • Factory Pond: 21.6 mi
Lighthouses: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Bay Island Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shrub HillWSW 253°125 m11.5 mi
Andrews HillW 278°116 m9.0 mi
Spencer HillWNW 288°113 m8.0 mi
Boston HillWNW 293°98 m11.2 mi
Pocasset HillE 85°95 m8.1 mi
Saw Mill HillWNW 287°95 m10.7 mi
Slate HillSSE 149°87 m8.2 mi
Cook HillE 80°85 m8.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2118:58
June solstice05:1219:4220:24
September equinox06:3318:0818:45
December solstice07:1015:3416:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303239495968747366544536
Precip in4.03.44.94.33.43.82.93.64.24.24.34.6

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab7 obs
  • Common Periwinkle7 obs
  • Dead Man's Fingers6 obs
  • Northern Quahog6 obs
  • Diamondback Terrapin5 obs
  • groundsel tree5 obs
  • Osprey5 obs
  • shining sumac5 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357259473

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