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Blackledge Falls

Blackledge Falls from directly overhead

Blackledge Falls is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 200 m. Grant Hill stands 284 m to the north-northeast, 8.9 miles off. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 24 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Glastonbury
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.70007, -72.46124
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • West Road Memorial Field: 2.2 mi
  • Butler Field: 3.6 mi
  • Neipsic Tennis Club: 3.8 mi
  • Burnt Hill Park: 4.1 mi
  • Holbrook Pond Boat Launch: 4.8 mi
Attractions
  • Insect Hotel: 2.2 mi
  • Car Wreck: 2.5 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 3.4 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 3.7 mi
  • Eagle Rock: 4.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Frank Lombardi Memorial: 4.3 mi
  • Slocomb Mill: 6.6 mi
  • dog memorial: 7.4 mi
  • Wilcox Mill (Site of): 7.6 mi
  • Wilcox Mill: 7.6 mi
Museums
Artworks
Gardens: 55
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Memorial Peace Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Rain Garden: 7.9 mi
  • fern and rock garden: 8.1 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 8.2 mi
Waterfalls: 53
  • Blackledge Falls: 0.1 mi
  • Cascade: 1.4 mi
  • Case Falls: 4.5 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 6.2 mi
Cliffs: 17
Beaches: 6
Rest areas: 6
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 15.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 15.8 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 17.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 23.4 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 13.5 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Blackledge Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Grant HillNNE 25°284 m8.9 mi
Reed HillNNE 17°275 m10.5 mi
MannantuckNW 315°273 m0.8 mi
John Tom HillNW 316°272 m0.8 mi
Meshomasic MountainSW 221°265 m6.4 mi
Box HillN 3°252 m7.1 mi
Clark HillSSW 205°241 m8.0 mi
Post HillESE 107°239 m6.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1619:4620:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1415:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/490780461

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