Greater Light Garden
Greater Light Garden is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. Folger Hill stands 33 m to the east, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Greater Light, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 30 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 15 m
How to reach it
- 29.8 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Town Dock: 0.5 mi
- North Beach Street: 0.7 mi
- Grove Lane: 0.7 mi
- The Creeks: 1.0 mi
- Hummock Pond: 1.1 mi
- South Beach: 0.5 mi
- Childrens Beach: 0.5 mi
- Clean Shore: 0.6 mi
- Jetties Beach: 1.0 mi
- Steps Beach: 1.0 mi
- Greater Light: 0.0 mi
- Fire Hose Cart House: 0.0 mi
- Thomas Macy House: 0.1 mi
- Hadwen House: 0.1 mi
- Historic Mitchell House: 0.1 mi
- Popsquatchet Hills: 0.5 mi
- Sunset Hill: 0.5 mi
- Swain Hill: 1.9 mi
- Trots Hills: 2.4 mi
- Fudge Hill: 2.4 mi
- Lilly Pond: 0.2 mi
- Mill Hill Park: 0.3 mi
- Dead Horse Valley: 0.4 mi
- Coffin Park: 0.5 mi
- Lily Pond Park: 0.6 mi
- Soldier and Sailors Monument: 0.1 mi
- Abiah Folger Franklin Fountain: 1.1 mi
- Sankaty Head Light: 7.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Dwelling: 7.2 mi
- cannon: 22.2 mi
- Nantucket Cliffs: 1.1 mi
- Squam Head: 6.5 mi
- Sankaty Head: 7.3 mi
- Wasque Point: 18.7 mi
- Hadwen House Gardens: 0.1 mi
- Oldest House Kitchen Garden: 0.4 mi
- First Congregational Church Bell Tower Climb: 0.3 mi
- Big Bridge: 24.9 mi
- Brant Point Light: 0.9 mi
- Whale Tail: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Greater Light Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folger Hill | E 91° | 33 m | 4.9 mi |
| Sampson Hill | WNW 289° | 28 m | 20.8 mi |
| Shawkemo Hills | E 88° | 26 m | 3.0 mi |
| Sauls Hills | E 92° | 23 m | 5.0 mi |
| Popsquatchet Hills | SW 235° | 22 m | 0.5 mi |
| Washaqua Hill | WNW 287° | 22 m | 20.0 mi |
| Macys Hill | E 90° | 19 m | 4.1 mi |
| Fudge Hill | E 82° | 18 m | 2.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:36 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:03 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 15:31 | 16:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 69 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nantucket MEM AP, 3 mi away.
- Mallard142 obs
- American Herring Gull130 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab116 obs
- common milkweed111 obs
- rugosa rose95 obs
- Song Sparrow90 obs
- Eastern Cottontail86 obs
- Great Egret78 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/890235616
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