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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- South Bluff: 3.0 mi
- Nobska Point: 3.2 mi
- Cedar Tree Neck: 4.6 mi
- Makonikey Head: 5.0 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
- Whale Tail: 14.1 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 5.1 mi
- Keeper's House: 7.7 mi
- West Chop Light: 7.7 mi
- Keeper's House: 7.7 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 7.7 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 21.3 mi
- truck pull-off: 23.1 mi
- truck pull-off: 23.2 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 19.6 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 21.9 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° | 94.8 m | 9.2 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNE 32° | 93 m | 17.8 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | NE 39° | 85 m | 21.6 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 |
| Discovery Hill | NE 42° | 77 m | 21.7 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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