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Fort Foster Park

Fort Foster Park from directly overhead

Fort Foster Park is a park in Maine, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Mount Agamenticus stands 210 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Wood Island Life Saving Station, a museum 0.5 miles away. Coastal Byway passes 1.3 miles off.

Park access is seasonal

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Kittery
Access
permit

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.06698, -70.68917

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Boatswain Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Forty Acre Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Sewall Hill: 4.7 mi
Parks
Museums: 55
Gardens: 47
  • Trial Gardens: 3.2 mi
  • Presscott Park Formal Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Community Gardens: 3.3 mi
  • Victory Gardens: 3.3 mi
  • Goodwin Garden: 3.3 mi
Beaches: 43
Artworks: 32
Attractions: 16
Waterfalls: 13
  • Piscassic Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Second Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Packer's Falls: 13.5 mi
  • Hampton Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Great Falls: 14.2 mi
Cliffs: 9
Picnic sites: 8
  • Fort McClary Picnic Area: 1.6 mi
  • Birthday Bay: 5.1 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 10.4 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 10.5 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 10.6 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 5
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 12.5 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 12.6 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 15.9 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 16.3 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 23.5 mi
Springs: 4
  • Jailhouse Spring: 14.6 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 17.6 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 20.3 mi
  • Rail Spring: 23.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Fort Foster Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount AgamenticusN 359°210 m10.8 mi
Second HillN 2°167 m11.4 mi
Third HillN 5°159 m11.7 mi
Horse HillsN 357°118 m10.0 mi
Third HillNNW 328°104 m8.7 mi
Horse HillsN 353°98 m9.5 mi
Groundnut HillN 11°93 m10.1 mi
Stratham HillW 259°88 m10.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1818:55
June solstice05:0419:4320:26
September equinox06:3118:0518:42
December solstice07:1215:2516:11

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, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • European Green Crab81 obs
  • Common Periwinkle77 obs
  • Common Eider64 obs
  • American Lobster57 obs
  • tansy56 obs
  • Knotted Wrack55 obs
  • rugosa rose51 obs
  • American Herring Gull51 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/713485973

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