Mount Cary
Mount Cary rises to 30 m in Massachusetts. Copicut Hill stands 109 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Silver Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 23 miles off.
The story
Mount Cary is a mountain in Dukes County, Massachusetts. It is located on Naushon Island 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of Tarpaulin Cove in the Town of Gosnold. Mount Surat is located northeast of Mount Cary.
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Wikidata Q56280003, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 30 m
How to reach it
- 22.6 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
- 25.3 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 27.5 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 28.8 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Named places within 25 miles
- Woods Hole Waterfront Park: 4.6 mi
- Taft's Playground: 4.8 mi
- WHOI - Rose Garden: 5.9 mi
- Owen Park: 7.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 8.0 mi
- Mount Surat: 0.5 mi
- Mount Sod: 3.3 mi
- Nobska Hill: 5.1 mi
- The Knob: 5.8 mi
- Goat Rocks: 6.1 mi
- Silver Beach: 0.4 mi
- Crescent Beach: 2.7 mi
- West Beach: 3.5 mi
- "Dinghy" Beach: 4.5 mi
- Garbage Beach: 4.6 mi
- Woods Holl: 4.7 mi
- Nobska Lighthouse: 5.1 mi
- Katharine Lee Bates: 8.2 mi
- Falmouth Police Memorial: 8.7 mi
- Soldiers Memorial: 10.2 mi
- Haley Cr: 4.4 mi
- Gifford Cr: 4.4 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck Sanctuary: 5.2 mi
- Irvin Property: 5.3 mi
- MBL Cedar Swamp: 5.3 mi
- Woods Hole Historical Museum: 4.8 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum and Liberty Pole: 7.8 mi
- Falmouth Museums on the Green: 8.0 mi
- Martha's Vineyard Museum: 8.2 mi
- Cottage Museum: 9.9 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Starting Line: 4.7 mi
- Polly Hill Arboretum: 7.4 mi
- The Liberté: 8.2 mi
- Falmouth Road Race Finish Line: 8.7 mi
- Flying Horses Carousel: 10.1 mi
- South Bluff: 0.7 mi
- Nobska Point: 3.2 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 4.6 mi
- Makonikey Head: 5.0 mi
- Falmouth Heights: 5.5 mi
- Garden of Our Lady: 4.8 mi
- Spohr Public Gardens: 6.6 mi
- Colonial Gardens: 8.0 mi
- Rotch- Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum: 13.5 mi
- Helfand Farm Community Gardens: 15.7 mi
- Rachel Carson: 4.6 mi
- Whale Tail: 4.6 mi
- Helen Keller: 4.6 mi
- Tree of Bike: 13.9 mi
- Buddha: 14.2 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 5.1 mi
- West Chop Light: 7.7 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 10.7 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 19.6 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.9 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 21.3 mi
- truck pull-off: 23.1 mi
- Crystal Spring: 14.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Mount Cary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copicut Hill | NW 315° | 109 m | 22.7 mi |
| Peaked Hill | S 177° | 95 m | 9.2 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 32° | 93 m | 17.8 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | NNE 31° | 82 m | 21.3 mi |
| Avery Hill | NNE 30° | 80 m | 19.4 mi |
| Prospect Hill | S 180° | 78 m | 8.6 mi |
| Deer Horn Hill | NE 35° | 71 m | 14.4 mi |
| Whiting Hill | SSE 157° | 68 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:39 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:06 | 18:42 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:32 | 16:17 |
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 | 32 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 65 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woods Hole Golf Club, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 614971 — Mount Cary, Dukes County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358274371
Day trips start here
- SouthCoast · 11 mi
- Mattapoisett · 12 mi
- Dartmouth · 14 mi
- Marion · 15 mi
- New Bedford · 15 mi
- Rochester · 17 mi
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