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Chenes Roches Preserve

Chenes Roches Preserve from directly overhead

Chenes Roches Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 173 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the northeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Laurel Drive Open Space, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 16 miles off.

Trail Map: https://joshuastrusttest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Chenes-Roches-Trail-Map-2018-11-12.pdf

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates41.93544, -72.30424

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums
Parks
  • Haymarket Square: 1.3 mi
  • West Main Street Open Space: 1.7 mi
  • Olympic Circle: 1.8 mi
  • Heritage Park: 1.8 mi
  • Olympic Park: 2.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 2.3 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 3.0 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 5.3 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 6.2 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 8.9 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 55
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 9.0 mi
  • filled-in well: 10.2 mi
  • Goat Rock: 10.9 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.5 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.5 mi
Gardens: 40
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.8 mi
  • sensory garden: 8.0 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 9.0 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 9.0 mi
Waterfalls: 22
  • Cascade: 3.7 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Cascades: 8.6 mi
  • Cascades: 8.7 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 8.7 mi
Beaches: 10
Cliffs: 6
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 12.7 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 17.4 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 20.2 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 2.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 3.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 15.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Chenes Roches Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNE 41°396 m7.5 mi
Bald HillENE 64°371 m6.1 mi
Stickney HillENE 57°371 m7.4 mi
Snow HillENE 75°362 m5.0 mi
Lead Mine HillENE 73°361 m6.4 mi
Hedgehog HillNE 52°354 m4.6 mi
Tupper HillNNE 14°352 m6.9 mi
Bear HillNNE 16°347 m7.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:01
June solstice05:1519:4620:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1415:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633455564706862504030
Precip in3.83.34.34.33.84.64.14.44.34.94.04.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Staffordville, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/795019150

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