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Blackledge Marsh Preserve

Blackledge Marsh Preserve from directly overhead

Blackledge Marsh Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 173 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Town of Bolton Land, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 24 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Bolton Land Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.75481, -72.44506
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Historic sites
Parks
  • Lake Street Parklet: 2.9 mi
  • Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 3.1 mi
  • Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 3.2 mi
  • Indian Notch Park: 3.4 mi
  • Mount Nebo Park: 3.6 mi
Artworks
Museums
Attractions: 57
  • Nike Missile Site: 3.7 mi
  • filled-in well: 5.4 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 5.5 mi
  • Car Wreck: 5.8 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 6.0 mi
Gardens: 53
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 7.2 mi
Waterfalls: 51
  • Case Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Blackledge Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Cascade: 5.1 mi
Cliffs: 13
Beaches: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 3
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 12.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 12.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 12.7 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Blackledge Marsh Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillNNE 19°294 m9.2 mi
Grant HillNE 35°284 m5.2 mi
Sugar HillNNE 21°282 m10.4 mi
Reed HillNNE 19°275 m6.6 mi
MannantuckSSW 204°273 m3.5 mi
John Tom HillSSW 204°272 m3.5 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSW 210°265 m10.0 mi
Box HillN 352°252 m3.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1619:4720:29
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, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/490786490

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