Murphy Field
Murphy Field is a park in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Breakers Stable & Carriage House, a attraction 0.4 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 3.0 miles off.
How to reach it
- 3.0 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 1.5 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 12.1 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 12.8 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 20 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ballard Park: 0.4 mi
- Spencer Park: 0.5 mi
- King Park: 0.6 mi
- Rovensky Park: 0.8 mi
- Freebody Park: 1.1 mi
- National Museum of American Illustration: 0.6 mi
- Chateau-sur-Mer Mansion: 0.6 mi
- Rosecliff Mansion: 0.7 mi
- Marble House: 0.7 mi
- The Doll Museum: 0.7 mi
- Fort Adams: 1.3 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 1.5 mi
- USS Bennington Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Battery Varnum: 2.3 mi
- EgyptAir Flight 990 Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Fort Wetherill: 2.2 mi
- Castle Hill: 2.3 mi
- Bliss Hill: 2.9 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 2.9 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.0 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 2.7 mi
- Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Wilbour Woods: 7.5 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 7.6 mi
- High Hill Point: 7.6 mi
- Gooseberry Beach: 0.6 mi
- King Park Beach: 0.7 mi
- Hazard Beach: 0.7 mi
- Belmont Beach: 0.8 mi
- Bailey Beach: 0.8 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 0.4 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 0.7 mi
- Rough Point Mansion: 1.1 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 1.1 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 1.1 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 0.7 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 1.3 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 1.3 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 8.8 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 10.9 mi
- The Blue Garden: 1.0 mi
- Herb Garden: 6.0 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 7.3 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 7.9 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 11.0 mi
- Marys Seat: 1.5 mi
- Rams Head: 2.5 mi
- The Bluff: 2.7 mi
- Lion Head: 3.9 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Beavertail Light: 4.5 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 4.5 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 23.2 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 24.9 mi
- Block Island Southeast Light: 25.0 mi
- Big Beach: 16.8 mi
- Little Beach: 17.1 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 19.2 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 19.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.3 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 20.9 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 21.1 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 6.8 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 14.4 mi
- Factory Pond: 15.6 mi
- The Falls: 7.3 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 14.7 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 15.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Murphy Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorker Hill | WNW 289° | 98 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WNW 282° | 97 m | 12.4 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 27° | 95 m | 14.3 mi |
| Sherman Hill | WNW 284° | 88 m | 10.5 mi |
| Slate Hill | NNE 28° | 87 m | 5.6 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 269° | 78 m | 11.5 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 295° | 75 m | 9.7 mi |
| Exeter Hill | WNW 301° | 75 m | 13.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:35 | 16:19 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport Rose, 3 mi away.
- rugosa rose326 obs
- American Herring Gull148 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant114 obs
- Common Eider97 obs
- princess tree68 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee66 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull60 obs
- Song Sparrow60 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/43160267
Day trips start here
- Newport · 1 mi
- Brenton Point State Park · 2 mi
- Middletown · 4 mi
- Dutch Island · 5 mi
- Jamestown · 5 mi
- Narragansett · 7 mi
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