Prentiss Woods
Prentiss Woods is a park in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 54 m. Peaked Mountain stands 350 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Bangor Gardens Park, a park 0.7 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 54 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Bangor Gardens Park: 0.7 mi
- Essex Street Recreation Area: 0.7 mi
- Little City Park: 1.1 mi
- Garden Plots: 1.2 mi
- Kenduskeag Stream Park: 1.2 mi
- Buck Hill: 3.7 mi
- Kelley Hill: 4.6 mi
- Hermon Hill: 4.7 mi
- Coffey Hill: 5.6 mi
- Newman Hill: 5.8 mi
- West Penjajawoc Grasslands: 1.7 mi
- Northeast Penjajawoc Preserve: 2.2 mi
- McPhetres Farm Forest: 3.0 mi
- Davis Forest: 3.1 mi
- Manter Woods: 3.2 mi
- One Native Lupine: 1.8 mi
- Pollinators: 1.8 mi
- The Good of the Hive: 2.0 mi
- Kenduskeag Stream Trail Mural: 2.0 mi
- Bangor Wants You: 2.0 mi
- Godfrey House Museum: 1.2 mi
- Zillman Art Museum: 2.0 mi
- Hose 5 Fire Museum: 2.0 mi
- Isaac Farrar Mansion Museum: 2.2 mi
- Police Museum: 2.4 mi
- Peirce Memorial Statue: 1.9 mi
- Battleship Maine Monument: 2.3 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Soldier's Monument: 5.8 mi
- Hampden Veterans' Memorial: 6.8 mi
- Bangor Mall Cinemas 10: 1.3 mi
- "IT" Movie Manhole Cover: 1.8 mi
- Maine Discovery Museum: 2.2 mi
- Bangor YMCA: 2.2 mi
- Penobscot Theatre: 2.2 mi
- Rider Bluff: 8.4 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Parks Pond Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Fletcher Bluff: 16.2 mi
- Carter Bluff: 23.0 mi
- UMA Bangor Campus Garden: 2.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 2.7 mi
- Fay Hyland Botanical Garden: 6.8 mi
- Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum: 7.3 mi
- Indian Island Community Garden: 10.3 mi
- Dunn Beach: 19.9 mi
- Otis Beach: 20.2 mi
- Jesse Beach: 22.0 mi
- Hales Beach: 22.3 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 22.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 1.2 mi
- Mariaville Falls: 19.1 mi
- Monroe Falls: 20.5 mi
- Ellsworth Falls: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Prentiss Woods. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peaked Mountain | E 90° | 350 m | 15.4 mi |
| Bald Mountain | SE 144° | 342 m | 14.6 mi |
| Big Hill | SE 131° | 338 m | 14.1 mi |
| Blackcap | ESE 117° | 312 m | 11.7 mi |
| Frank WEst Mountain | SW 234° | 300 m | 16.6 mi |
| Great Pond Mountain | SSE 161° | 291 m | 16.8 mi |
| Chick Hill | E 88° | 271 m | 15.3 mi |
| Little Peaked Mountain | E 91° | 260 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:39 | 18:09 | 18:48 |
| June solstice | 04:50 | 19:40 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:23 | 17:56 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:09 | 15:57 |
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 | 19 | 21 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 68 | 60 | 48 | 37 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bangor Intl AP, 3 mi away.
- New England aster62 obs
- purple pitcher plant52 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel41 obs
- Mallard38 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird37 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
- purple loosestrife32 obs
- Painted Turtle29 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/611652777
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