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Bolton Meadows/Tumblebrook Drive

Bolton Meadows/Tumblebrook Drive from directly overhead

Bolton Meadows/Tumblebrook Drive is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 163 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Duhaime Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Bolton Land Trust

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates41.74234, -72.42756
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Historic sites
Peaks
Parks
  • Andover Veterans Monument Park: 3.1 mi
  • Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 3.9 mi
  • Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 3.9 mi
  • Indian Notch Park: 4.1 mi
  • Lake Street Parklet: 4.2 mi
Artworks
Museums
Attractions: 59
  • Nike Missile Site: 4.4 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 5.4 mi
  • Car Wreck: 5.7 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 5.8 mi
  • filled-in well: 6.4 mi
Gardens: 53
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 4.6 mi
  • fern and rock garden: 7.6 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 8.1 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 8.1 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 8.2 mi
Waterfalls: 48
  • Blackledge Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Case Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Cascade: 4.7 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 5.5 mi
Cliffs: 15
Beaches: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 12.4 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 12.4 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.8 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 24.5 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 11.7 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Bolton Meadows/Tumblebrook Drive. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillNNE 13°294 m9.8 mi
Grant HillNNE 22°284 m5.6 mi
Sugar HillNNE 15°282 m10.9 mi
Reed HillN 10°275 m7.2 mi
MannantuckSW 225°273 m3.3 mi
John Tom HillSW 225°272 m3.3 mi
Meshomasic MountainSW 217°265 m9.8 mi
Box HillNNW 342°252 m4.4 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, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/494954759

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