Hickey-Desilets Pocket Park
Hickey-Desilets Pocket Park is a park in New Hampshire, at a recorded elevation of 144 m. Boynton Hill stands 529 m to the north-northeast, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Wood Street Field, a park 0.2 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 8.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 144 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Keene
How to reach it
- 8.1 mi off the Connecticut River Byway, National
- 14.6 mi off the Molly Stark Scenic Byway
- 23.0 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 23.7 mi off the Currier & Ives Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Beal's Knob Vista · 7 mi
- Hubbard Hill Vista · 10 mi
- Dort Knob Vista · 11 mi
- stone post view · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wood Street Field: 0.2 mi
- Central Square: 0.6 mi
- Priest Park: 0.7 mi
- Keene Unitarian Universalist Church: 0.8 mi
- Patricia T. Russell Park: 0.9 mi
- Water Tower Lot: 1.4 mi
- Beech Hill Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Greater Goose Pond Forest: 2.0 mi
- Mount Cresson Conservation Area: 2.3 mi
- Greater Goose Pond Forest: 2.7 mi
- Beech Hill: 1.6 mi
- Mount Cresson: 2.3 mi
- West Hill: 2.3 mi
- Mount Huggins: 2.7 mi
- Oak Hill: 3.0 mi
- Oya Hill: 0.3 mi
- Gravity Foundation Monument: 0.3 mi
- Keene Soldier's Monument: 0.6 mi
- Troy Civil War Memorial: 8.7 mi
- Troy's Hero Memorial: 8.7 mi
- Cheshire Children's Museum: 0.3 mi
- Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: 0.4 mi
- Colony House Museum: 0.4 mi
- Horatio Colony Museum: 0.5 mi
- Wyman Tavern Museum: 0.5 mi
- Mine Ledge: 5.9 mi
- Troy Cliffs: 7.9 mi
- Billings Fold: 10.1 mi
- Black Precipice: 10.1 mi
- Mine Ledge: 13.5 mi
- Sunset Beach: 9.9 mi
- Ranger Beach: 12.5 mi
- Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 12.6 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.2 mi
- Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 15.2 mi
- Reaching: 0.4 mi
- Trinity Bicycle Shop: 0.4 mi
- Aurora: 0.4 mi
- Baseball: 0.5 mi
- Johnathan Daniels: 0.5 mi
- Falls Brook Falls: 8.3 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 10.9 mi
- Royalston Falls: 14.8 mi
- Pulpit Falls: 15.0 mi
- Spirit Falls: 18.3 mi
- Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 0.6 mi
- Stone Bridge: 14.4 mi
- Hermit's Castle: 22.8 mi
- Path Continues: 24.2 mi
- Path Continues: 24.2 mi
- Creamery Covered Bridge: 16.0 mi
- Hall Bridge: 17.7 mi
- Victorian Village Covered Bridge: 21.6 mi
- Green River Covered Bridge: 21.9 mi
- Scott Covered Bridge: 22.3 mi
- John Pierce Garden: 11.5 mi
- Noahs Ark: 11.8 mi
- Washington Community Garden: 19.8 mi
- Phillipston Community Garden: 24.2 mi
- Wright Grove: 5.9 mi
- Newhall Recreation Area: 19.2 mi
- Falcon Spring: 11.1 mi
- (seasonal): 22.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of Hickey-Desilets Pocket Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boynton Hill | NNE 21° | 529 m | 8.1 mi |
| Winch Hill | NNE 28° | 500 m | 7.3 mi |
| Spaulding Hill | NNE 17° | 487 m | 6.8 mi |
| Hardy Hill | ENE 66° | 487 m | 8.6 mi |
| Spaulding Hill | E 101° | 484 m | 7.6 mi |
| Sunset Hill | ESE 105° | 482 m | 7.9 mi |
| Parker Hill | ENE 75° | 481 m | 6.2 mi |
| Thunder Hill | ENE 67° | 477 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:49 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:32 | 16:18 |
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 | 20 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Keene, 2 mi away.
- alder buckthorn45 obs
- Painted Turtle44 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle41 obs
- Gray Treefrog40 obs
- American Robin37 obs
- Wood Frog35 obs
- sensitive fern34 obs
- Mallard32 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/196892860
Day trips start here
- Swanzey · 4 mi
- Brattleboro · 15 mi
- Rindge · 19 mi
- Gardner · 28 mi
- Gill · 28 mi
- Greenfield · 28 mi
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