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North Head Long Pond

Nantucket, Massachusetts — Nantucket County.

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46Surface acres
0.4 miShoreline trails

Surface area: The USGS National Hydrography Dataset outline (NHD Permanent ID 136675137).

Location & fast facts

Where North Head Long Pond is in Massachusetts

The red circle marks North Head Long Pond.

Fast facts

About North Head Long Pond

  • County: Nantucket
  • Town: Nantucket
  • Mapped as: Lake or pond (USGS National Hydrography Dataset)
  • Distance: about 87 mi from Boston and 108 mi from Worcester, straight-line (not driving distance)

Towns and counties: U.S. Census Bureau boundaries overlaid on the USGS lake outline.

Fishing in Massachusetts

Official MassWildlife pages. Rules and fees change; check before you go.

Lake map

North Head Long Pond shoreline

0.1 mileN

No public access sites are listed for this water in the MassWildlife Office of Fishing & Boating Access sites (MassGIS) data.

Shoreline trail

Shoreline: USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD Waterbody, Permanent ID 136675137), public domain. State outline: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb. Points: MassWildlife Office of Fishing & Boating Access sites (MassGIS). Dashed trails: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Interactive map: Leaflet with © OpenStreetMap contributors. Not for navigation.

Shoreline trails

0.4 miTrail within 90 m of shore
About 35%Of the shoreline
NoLoops the whole lake
South and west shoresWhere

OpenStreetMap shows about 0.4 mi of public hiking and walking trail within about 90 m (300 ft) of the North Head Long Pond shoreline, mostly along the south and west shores.

Trails along the shore

The dashed brown line on the lake map shows these trails. We include paths, footways and marked trails that OpenStreetMap doesn't mark as private, and leave out roads, sidewalks and snowmobile corridors. Mapped trails can still cross private land or close for the season, and not every trail is mapped, so follow posted signs.

Trails: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Map data as of Oct 9, 2026. Trail lengths count only the parts within about 90 m of the USGS NHD lake outline.

Conditions right now

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Live from the National Weather Service API for the lake's coordinates (41.2869, -70.1700). The nearest station may be several miles away. NWS forecast for North Head Long Pond. No live water-temperature sensor is shown because we haven't found a public one for this lake.

Sun, moon & best fishing times

Sun & moon at North Head Long Pond

Best fishing times

Major periodMinor periodDaylight

    Based on solunar theory, an estimate. Major periods (about 2 hours) center on when the moon is directly overhead or underfoot; minor periods (about 1 hour) center on moonrise and moonset. The 0–100 activity score rises during those periods and gets a boost near sunrise and sunset and around the new and full moon. Weather, water temperature and pressure often matter more. Sun and moon times are calculated in your browser from the lake's coordinates with standard astronomy formulas, shown in ET (America/New_York), and accurate to within a few minutes.

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