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Bellante Preserve

Bellante Preserve from directly overhead

Bellante Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 228 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the northeast, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Ernie Boothroyd Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 18 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Northern Connecticut Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.93867, -72.33562

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums
Parks
  • West Main Street Open Space: 1.9 mi
  • Haymarket Square: 1.9 mi
  • Olympic Circle: 1.9 mi
  • Olympic Park: 2.0 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 2.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 3.3 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 3.8 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 5.7 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 6.3 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 10.4 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 53
  • filled-in well: 9.3 mi
  • Goat Rock: 9.8 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 10.6 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.9 mi
Gardens: 50
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.2 mi
  • sensory garden: 6.7 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 9.0 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 9.8 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 9.8 mi
Waterfalls: 22
  • Cascade: 2.7 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 7.4 mi
  • Cascades: 9.2 mi
  • Cascades: 9.2 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 9.7 mi
Beaches: 9
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 16.2 mi
  • Rd: 24.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 24.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 24.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 14.1 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 15.9 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 19.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 3.7 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 3.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Bellante Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNE 50°396 m8.5 mi
Bald HillENE 71°371 m7.5 mi
Stickney HillENE 64°371 m8.7 mi
Snow HillE 80°362 m6.5 mi
Lead Mine HillENE 78°361 m7.9 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 64°354 m5.9 mi
Tupper HillNNE 27°352 m7.2 mi
Bear HillNNE 28°347 m7.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1515:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633455564706862504030
Precip in3.83.34.34.33.84.64.14.44.34.94.04.5

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/829860465

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