Mt Castor Marsh Conservation Area
Mt Castor Marsh Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Town of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Mt Castor Marsh Conservation Area is situated nearby to the hamlet Mill Valley, as well as near the suburb South Amherst.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mead Art Museum and Emily Dickinson Museum.
Mead Art Museum
Museum
Mead Art Museum houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead, of the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.
Emily Dickinson Museum
Museum
Photo: Daderot, Public domain.
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead and the Evergreens. The Dickinson Homestead was the birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, whose poems were discovered in her bedroom there after her death.
Beneski Museum of Natural History
Museum
The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amherst and Hadley.
Amherst
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amherst is a town in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Amherst is home to about 35,000 residents as well as the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Hampshire College.
Hadley
Hadley is a small town in the Pioneer Valley, in Western Massachusetts. Despite its small population, it has a reasonable commercial strip that harbors a few malls, providing a more mainstream shopping experience than its larger neighbors, Amherst and Northampton.
South Amherst
Suburb
South Amherst is a census-designated place in the town of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,994 at the 2010 census.
Mt Castor Marsh Conservation Area
- Type: Nature reserve
- Categories: forest and recreation area
- Location: Town of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3503° or 42° 21′ 1″ northLongitude
-72.5086° or 72° 30′ 31″ westOpen location code
87J99F2R+4HOpenStreetMap ID
way 29906854OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Castor and The Swamp.
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