Dakin Park
Dakin Park is a park in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 33 m. Peaked Mountain stands 350 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Garden Plots, a park 0.1 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Garden Plots: 0.1 mi
- Little City Park: 0.4 mi
- Kenduskeag Stream Picnic Area: 0.5 mi
- Parker Courtyard: 0.5 mi
- Chapin Park: 0.5 mi
- Buck Hill: 4.1 mi
- Coffey Hill: 5.4 mi
- Kelley Hill: 5.5 mi
- Hermon Hill: 5.5 mi
- Copeland Hill: 6.1 mi
- West Penjajawoc Grasslands: 2.9 mi
- McPhetres Farm Forest: 2.9 mi
- Davis Forest: 3.0 mi
- Manter Woods: 3.1 mi
- Northeast Penjajawoc Preserve: 3.1 mi
- One Native Lupine: 0.5 mi
- Pollinators: 0.5 mi
- The Good of the Hive: 0.7 mi
- Kenduskeag Stream Trail Mural: 0.7 mi
- Bangor Wants You: 0.7 mi
- Peirce Memorial Statue: 0.6 mi
- Battleship Maine Monument: 1.1 mi
- Hampden Veterans' Memorial: 6.0 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Soldier's Monument: 6.1 mi
- Godfrey House Museum: 0.5 mi
- Zillman Art Museum: 0.7 mi
- Hose 5 Fire Museum: 0.7 mi
- Isaac Farrar Mansion Museum: 0.9 mi
- Police Museum: 1.1 mi
- Maine Discovery Museum: 0.9 mi
- "IT" Movie Manhole Cover: 0.9 mi
- Penobscot Theatre: 0.9 mi
- Bangor YMCA: 1.0 mi
- Bangor Mall Cinemas 10: 1.3 mi
- Rider Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Parks Pond Bluff: 13.6 mi
- Fletcher Bluff: 16.0 mi
- Carter Bluff: 22.8 mi
- Children's Garden: 1.4 mi
- UMA Bangor Campus Garden: 1.6 mi
- Fay Hyland Botanical Garden: 7.4 mi
- Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum: 7.6 mi
- Indian Island Community Garden: 11.1 mi
- Dunn Beach: 18.9 mi
- Otis Beach: 19.2 mi
- Jesse Beach: 20.9 mi
- Hales Beach: 21.0 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 21.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 0.6 mi
- Mariaville Falls: 18.6 mi
- Monroe Falls: 19.8 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.9 miles of Dakin Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Mountain | E 86° | 350 m | 15.0 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SE 143° | 342 m | 13.4 mi |
| Big Hill | SE 128° | 338 m | 13.0 mi |
| Blackcap | ESE 112° | 312 m | 10.8 mi |
| Great Pond Mountain | SSE 161° | 291 m | 15.5 mi |
| Chick Hill | E 83° | 271 m | 15.0 mi |
| Little Peaked Mountain | E 86° | 260 m | 14.5 mi |
| Peaked Mountain | SSE 149° | 258 m | 12.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:39 | 18:09 | 18:47 |
| June solstice | 04:50 | 19:40 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:23 | 17:56 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:09 | 15:58 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 21 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bangor Intl AP, 3 mi away.
- Mallard150 obs
- Northern Mockingbird93 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel93 obs
- Song Sparrow75 obs
- Black-capped Chickadee70 obs
- Northern Cardinal66 obs
- American Crow64 obs
- Ring-billed Gull63 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/372924693
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