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Benton Park

Benton Park from directly overhead

Benton Park is a park in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 79 m. Oak Hill stands 330 m to the northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Soldiers and Sailors Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Branch River Valley Trail passes 10 miles off.

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Coordinates43.43709, -70.77775
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Soldiers and Sailors Park: 0.2 mi
  • Central Park: 0.2 mi
  • Gateway Park: 0.3 mi
  • Carpentier Park: 0.8 mi
  • Witham Street Fields: 1.8 mi
Nature reserves
  • Town Farm Easement: 1.0 mi
  • Hanson Farm: 1.2 mi
  • Browning Family Reserve: 1.5 mi
  • Murray Easement: 1.5 mi
  • Fawcett-Goodwin Reserve: 1.7 mi
Peaks
Beaches: 57
Museums: 46
Historic sites: 41
  • Rachel Carson: 13.3 mi
  • Mariner's Circle: 13.6 mi
  • Governor's Road: 13.9 mi
  • Roundhouse: 15.7 mi
  • Jayden's Journey Memorial Park: 16.1 mi
Artworks: 18
  • Fairy Village: 1.3 mi
  • Our Forebearers of the Coast: 16.1 mi
  • Sherwood Cairn Garden: 17.7 mi
  • Snake Eyes: 18.0 mi
  • A World Alive by Sculptor Walter Liff: 21.8 mi
Gardens: 13
  • Sanford Community Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Somersworth Community Garden: 13.7 mi
  • South Berwick Community Garden: 13.8 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 19.7 mi
  • Wagon Hill Farm Community Gardens: 21.8 mi
Attractions: 10
  • Spring Hill: 12.6 mi
  • Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm: 13.3 mi
  • Willowbrook Museum Village: 15.5 mi
  • Rock Tripe Boulder: 21.3 mi
  • Take Flight: 21.6 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Orris Falls: 11.7 mi
  • Gonic Trails Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Hayes Falls: 17.2 mi
  • Kimballs Falls: 17.2 mi
  • Cascade Falls Waterfall: 20.0 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Slackcrack: 16.7 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 17.6 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 17.6 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 17.7 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 17.7 mi
Springs: 2
  • Two Sisters Spring: 21.0 mi
  • Cold Bowling Spring: 24.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Lighthouses: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Limington Rapids Rest Area: 21.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Benton Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oak HillNW 310°330 m13.5 mi
Abbott MountainNNW 346°324 m11.3 mi
Davis HillNW 310°324 m12.8 mi
Hussey HillWNW 304°315 m9.6 mi
Ossipee HillN 10°312 m10.6 mi
Teneriffe MountainW 271°300 m11.9 mi
Gerrish MountainNW 311°280 m9.8 mi
Hussey MountainNNW 347°274 m10.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1818:55
June solstice05:0319:4420:28
September equinox06:3118:0518:42
December solstice07:1315:2416:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212332445463696760483827
Precip in3.73.64.74.63.84.64.03.93.85.34.54.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sanford 2 NNW, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American pokeweed7 obs
  • Monarch7 obs
  • azure bluet7 obs
  • Common Garter Snake6 obs
  • eastern white pine6 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade6 obs
  • Canada mayflower6 obs
  • New England blazing star6 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 way/430207510

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