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Baxter Street Conservation Area

Baxter Street Conservation Area from directly overhead

Baxter Street Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 219 m. Snow Hill stands 362 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Cassidy Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 19 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Tolland
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.83953, -72.33471
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Laidlaw Park: 1.6 mi
  • Merrow Meadow Park: 1.6 mi
  • Halls Pond Swim Area: 2.2 mi
  • Lisicke Beach: 3.9 mi
  • Pine Lake Community Club: 4.4 mi
Historic sites
  • Ronald E. Blake: 2.4 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 4.1 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 4.3 mi
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 5.0 mi
  • Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 5.2 mi
Museums
Artworks
Gardens: 53
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 4.6 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 4.6 mi
Attractions: 44
  • filled-in well: 5.9 mi
  • Wolf Rock: 8.4 mi
  • Old Porcelain Mine: 11.3 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 11.6 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 11.8 mi
Waterfalls: 35
  • Cascades: 3.3 mi
  • Cascades: 3.3 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 5.6 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 8.0 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 7
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 17.9 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.0 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 4.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 4.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 10.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Baxter Street Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Snow HillNE 39°362 m10.2 mi
Hedgehog HillNNE 29°354 m10.8 mi
Sky HillNE 43°331 m10.6 mi
Bald MountainNNW 340°322 m11.2 mi
Soapstone MountainNNW 334°315 m9.2 mi
Paulk HillNW 317°294 m3.9 mi
Crow HillN 357°292 m10.6 mi
Whifford HillNE 47°291 m5.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4620:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1415:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485866727063524233
Precip in3.63.04.44.23.74.54.04.34.54.63.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1389909698

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