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Bolton Heritage Farm

Bolton Heritage Farm from directly overhead

Bolton Heritage Farm is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 186 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Edith Toomey Clark Property, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Bolton
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.77346, -72.42513
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.7 mi
  • Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 1.7 mi
  • Indian Notch Park: 1.9 mi
  • Lake Street Parklet: 3.1 mi
  • Upper Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 3.2 mi
Historic sites
  • Frank Lombardi Memorial: 1.9 mi
  • dog memorial: 4.8 mi
  • Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 6.1 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 6.6 mi
  • Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 8.6 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • filled-in well: 4.3 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 5.2 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 7.2 mi
  • Car Wreck: 7.4 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 7.5 mi
Museums
Gardens: 55
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 6.6 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 7.1 mi
  • sensory garden: 7.4 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 7.7 mi
Waterfalls: 50
  • Case Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 4.8 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 5.0 mi
  • Blackledge Falls: 5.3 mi
Cliffs: 13
Beaches: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 3
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 10.5 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 10.6 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.3 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.9 mi
  • Picnic: 24.4 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 12.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Bolton Heritage Farm. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillNNE 15°294 m7.7 mi
Whifford HillNE 46°291 m11.8 mi
Kendall HillNNE 18°290 m10.7 mi
Grant HillNNE 33°284 m3.6 mi
Sugar HillNNE 18°282 m8.8 mi
Reed HillNNE 13°275 m5.1 mi
MannantuckSSW 209°273 m5.1 mi
John Tom HillSSW 209°272 m5.1 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: 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, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/490620400

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