Birch Plain Creek Wildlife Area
Birch Plain Creek Wildlife Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Morgan Hill stands 120 m to the northwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Birch Plain Creek Open Space, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 13 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space
What to expect
- Operated by
- City Of Groton
How to reach it
- 12.7 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 15.4 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 19.0 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 22.4 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Birch Plain Creek Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Kiely Park: 2.0 mi
- Winthrop Estates: 2.1 mi
- Winthrop Estates: 2.2 mi
- Jabez Smith Homestead: 2.2 mi
- Bayberry Lane Boat Launch: 0.7 mi
- Burrows Field: 1.3 mi
- Fort Trumbull State Park: 1.9 mi
- Raheem Ali Carter Memorial Park: 1.9 mi
- Ring Drive Park: 2.0 mi
- Avery Point Beach: 0.9 mi
- Shennecossett Beach: 1.0 mi
- Bushy Point Beach: 1.2 mi
- Groton Beach: 1.4 mi
- Bluff Point Beach: 1.5 mi
- Avery Memorial Monument: 1.1 mi
- Gov. John Winthrop Jr. Homestead: 1.6 mi
- Gov. John Winthrop Jr. Homestead: 1.6 mi
- Soldiers Monument: 1.9 mi
- Groton Monument: 1.9 mi
- Averys Hill: 1.2 mi
- Long Hill: 1.7 mi
- Fort Griswold Hill: 1.9 mi
- Crooked S Hill: 2.4 mi
- Hazelnut Hill: 2.4 mi
- Groton Monument House Museum: 1.9 mi
- Ebenezer Avery House and Museum: 1.9 mi
- Fort Trumbull Visitor Center: 2.0 mi
- Custom House Maritime Museum: 2.4 mi
- Nathan Hale Schoolhouse: 2.4 mi
- Cascade: 2.5 mi
- Cascade: 2.7 mi
- Silver Falls: 10.0 mi
- Yantic Falls: 14.1 mi
- Cascade: 17.8 mi
- The Whale: 2.4 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 6.4 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 6.4 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 6.7 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 6.9 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 3.0 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 3.7 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 4.8 mi
- Mystic Blue: 5.4 mi
- Mjolnir: 6.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 3.1 mi
- Cutting Garden: 3.4 mi
- East Garden: 3.4 mi
- West Garden: 3.5 mi
- Rock Garden: 3.5 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 15.8 mi
- Crow Head: 16.4 mi
- Ram Head: 20.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 21.2 mi
- Hedges Bank: 21.7 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 10.6 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 10.6 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 10.6 mi
- Oil Shed: 10.6 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 15.5 mi
- Powder House: 3.3 mi
- Skate Hut: 3.4 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 20.6 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 20.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 5.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 10.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.5 mi
- Old Spring: 7.2 mi
- Factory Pond: 24.2 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Birch Plain Creek Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Hill | NW 308° | 120 m | 9.0 mi |
| Polly Hill | NW 305° | 117 m | 8.8 mi |
| Konomoc Hill | NW 312° | 112 m | 7.7 mi |
| Pie Hill | NNW 332° | 109 m | 8.6 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | N 3° | 108 m | 4.8 mi |
| Vinegar Hill | N 2° | 108 m | 6.4 mi |
| Beaverdam Hill | NW 317° | 105 m | 8.6 mi |
| Haughton Mountain | NNW 342° | 103 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton NEW London AP, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/934455254
Day trips start here
- Groton · 2 mi
- New London · 3 mi
- Mystic · 5 mi
- Waterford · 5 mi
- Ledyard · 8 mi
- Stonington · 8 mi
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