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Beaver Brook Trails

Beaver Brook Trails from directly overhead

Beaver Brook Trails is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Milford
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.21444, -73.08276

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Meadowside Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Linwood Park: 0.8 mi
  • Liberty Rock Park: 0.9 mi
  • Eric Zimmerman Playground: 1.1 mi
  • Milford Green: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
Beaches
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 1.4 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 2.0 mi
  • Americana Museum: 2.1 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 2.1 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 2.8 mi
Peaks
  • Knobb Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Clark Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 3.5 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.0 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 5.3 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 6.5 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 7.0 mi
Waterfalls: 32
  • Farmill River Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Cascades: 4.9 mi
  • Cascade: 5.8 mi
  • Cascade: 6.7 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 8.9 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.1 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.1 mi
  • Mother Mary: 5.4 mi
  • Heron: 5.7 mi
  • An American Dream: 9.8 mi
Attractions: 19
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 5.6 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.0 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 10.1 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 12.4 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.9 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 2.0 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.1 mi
  • Pond View: 10.6 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 10.6 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 10.7 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.9 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 21.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 21.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 23.1 mi
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Beaver Brook Trails. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillN 350°202 m10.4 mi
Barn HillNNW 329°200 m10.4 mi
Moose HillNW 322°198 m10.4 mi
Israel HillNNW 327°192 m9.4 mi
Bugg HillNW 317°189 m10.4 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 337°188 m10.1 mi
Bagburn HillNNW 330°186 m11.7 mi
Peck HillNNE 13°183 m11.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/762552145

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