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Becker Conservation Area

Becker Conservation Area from directly overhead

Becker Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 106 m. Bald Hill stands 371 m to the northeast, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is River Park, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 18 miles off.

Access Through River Park; Yellow Blazes Trail

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Tolland

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.86158, -72.30809
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Halls Pond Swim Area: 0.6 mi
  • Merrow Meadow Park: 2.8 mi
  • River Road Park: 3.0 mi
  • Laidlaw Park: 3.6 mi
  • The Thomas and Bette Wolff Family Park: 4.7 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 2.2 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 3.0 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 3.3 mi
  • Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 5.5 mi
Museums
Artworks
Gardens: 50
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 3.7 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 4.5 mi
Attractions: 48
  • filled-in well: 7.5 mi
  • Wolf Rock: 8.6 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 9.9 mi
  • Old Porcelain Mine: 12.1 mi
  • Frog Rock: 13.3 mi
Waterfalls: 32
  • Cascades: 3.7 mi
  • Cascades: 3.7 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 7.0 mi
  • Cascade: 8.2 mi
Beaches: 8
Cliffs: 6
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 15.8 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.0 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 2.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 2.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 10.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Becker Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillNE 36°371 m9.6 mi
Stickney HillNE 35°371 m11.1 mi
Snow HillNE 38°362 m8.1 mi
Lead Mine HillNE 42°361 m9.4 mi
Hedgehog HillNNE 26°354 m8.8 mi
Chestnut HillNNW 346°332 m10.0 mi
Sky HillNE 43°331 m8.5 mi
Bald MountainNNW 330°322 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:01
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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/790222876

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