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Briar Court & Salvadore Memorial Preserves

Briar Court & Salvadore Memorial Preserves from directly overhead

Briar Court & Salvadore Memorial Preserves is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 54 m. Lindsley Hill stands 312 m to the north-northwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Strathmore Preserve, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 20 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Cheshire Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.50771, -72.92436
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
Waterfalls: 60
  • Roaring Brook Falls: 1.9 mi
  • Cascade: 2.0 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 5.1 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 5.2 mi
  • Spruce Glen Falls: 6.8 mi
Historic sites
  • Maribeth McCarthy Demma: 2.1 mi
  • Rochambeau Monument: 4.3 mi
  • Red Bridge: 4.6 mi
  • Edgar Laing Heermance: 6.1 mi
  • Lyman Hall Monument: 6.4 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Butterfly Garden: 4.2 mi
  • Bethany Community Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Sustainable Garden: 8.1 mi
  • Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 8.1 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 8.1 mi
Artworks: 55
Attractions: 54
  • Libby's Lump: 8.2 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 9.7 mi
  • 1954: 10.0 mi
  • Washington Trail monument: 10.4 mi
  • Rock House: 12.4 mi
Beaches: 49
Cliffs: 20
Picnic sites: 7
  • Picnic Grove: 10.6 mi
  • Pond View: 20.9 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 21.0 mi
  • Oak Grove: 21.3 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 21.5 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 4.6 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 8.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.9 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 17.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 17.0 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Briar Court & Salvadore Memorial Preserves. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lindsley HillNNW 345°312 m8.2 mi
Clinton HillNNW 330°303 m8.8 mi
West PeakNE 48°301 m5.6 mi
Becar HillNNW 337°297 m8.5 mi
Compounce MountainN 355°290 m8.6 mi
Southington MountainN 349°281 m6.5 mi
East PeakNE 53°277 m5.7 mi
Andrews HillW 259°275 m8.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4116:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43440848

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