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Fort Point State Park

Fort Point State Park from directly overhead

Fort Point State Park is a park in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Mount Waldo stands 320 m to the north-northwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Pownall, a historic site 0.4 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
10 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.46837, -68.81984
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Colonel Peterson Memorial Park: 1.9 mi
  • Sandy Point Beach Park: 2.5 mi
  • Stockton Springs Recreation Park: 2.6 mi
  • Jim Henry Field: 3.7 mi
  • Fort Griffith: 5.2 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 43
Museums: 32
Artworks: 15
  • Before The Wind: 7.2 mi
  • The Whale: 7.2 mi
  • Water Street Mural: 20.1 mi
  • Paul Bunyan: 22.2 mi
  • An Optimistic Vision Inspiring Neighborhood Recovery: 22.6 mi
Cliffs: 13
Historic sites: 10
Attractions: 8
  • Fields Pond Visitor Center: 19.2 mi
  • Dome home: 20.0 mi
  • Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes: 21.9 mi
  • Hollywood Casino: 22.2 mi
  • Bangor YMCA: 23.0 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Tanglewood Garden: 16.2 mi
  • Children's Garden: 22.6 mi
  • UMA Bangor Campus Garden: 23.4 mi
  • Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum: 24.1 mi
  • Peace Garden: 24.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Monroe Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Ellsworth Falls: 19.7 mi
  • Lovers Leap: 23.9 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
  • Thompson Island Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.0 miles of Fort Point State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WaldoNNW 334°320 m8.6 mi
Great Pond MountainNE 39°291 m11.8 mi
Blue Hill MountainESE 102°281 m11.6 mi
Mount EphraimWNW 300°226 m7.7 mi
Oak HillNE 50°223 m13.0 mi
Jacob Buck MountainNNE 14°215 m12.6 mi
Beech HillSW 224°205 m12.6 mi
Quarry HillWNW 283°202 m10.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3918:0918:48
June solstice04:5119:4020:24
September equinox06:2317:5618:35
December solstice07:0915:1115:59

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202230415261676659483727
Precip in3.93.24.14.43.94.33.23.14.15.44.74.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belfast, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler11 obs
  • Horned Grebe10 obs
  • Red-throated Loon10 obs
  • red-berried elder10 obs
  • Common Loon9 obs
  • Canadian bunchberry9 obs
  • orange hawkweed9 obs
  • Gray Catbird8 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/126154125

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