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

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Mead Art Museum houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, US. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead, of architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.

Emily Dickinson Museum

Museum

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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

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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

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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

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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″ north

Longitude

-72.5086° or 72° 30′ 31″ west

Open location code

87J99F2R+4H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 29906854

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Mill Valley and Pomeroy Village.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mount Castor and The Swamp.

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