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Plum Island is a barrier beach sheltering the Plum Island River, Plum Island Sound, and the mouths of the Parker, Rowley, Eagle Hill and Ipswich rivers. The entire area between the islands and the mainland is grassland laced with tidal creeks. At high tide the grassland is entirely submerged, in some places by only a few inches of water.
The northern terminus of the trail is also divided: its northernmost section ends at Plum Island in Newburyport, and a southerly branch extends to the sea in the town of Ipswich. The Bay Circuit passes through Plymouth County , Norfolk County , Middlesex County , eastern Worcester County , Bristol County and Essex County, Massachusetts .
The refuge includes the mouth of the Parker River, which drains the mainland on the other side of Plum Island Sound. The refuge also includes the southern three-quarters of Plum Island, an 8-mile (13 km) long barrier island off the coast of mainland Essex County. The southern tip of the island, however, belongs to Sandy Point State Reservation ...
Sandy Point State Reservation is on a large spit of sand at the southern end of Plum Island: "Sandy Point". Plum Island Drive, a dirt road on the southern half of Plum Island, ends at the foot of a hill of glacial origin, Bar Head. Rocks: "Bar Head Rocks", extend from a 19th-century gravel pit in the side of the hill into the water.
Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore; ... Lynn Shores Reservation; Newbury/Newburyport. Plum Island; Revere. ... Partial map of Rhode Island beaches.
Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.The population was 13,785 at the 2020 census. [1] Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island.
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Rainsford Island is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, a National Recreation Area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous ...