Cold Spring Conservation Area
Cold Spring Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 162 m. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the north-northwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Parsons Field, a park 0.3 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 16.3 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 20.2 mi off the Mohawk Trail - MA, National
- 23.9 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
- 24.0 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 10 mi
- Kiwanis Point · 21 mi
- Waterfall · 23 mi
- Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Parsons Field: 0.3 mi
- Town Common: 0.6 mi
- Foley Field: 1.3 mi
- Austin Gaughan Memorial Field: 1.5 mi
- Lake Vale Cemetery: 2.9 mi
- Jabish Street Pumping Station: 0.4 mi
- Warner Road Conservation Area: 1.2 mi
- Springfield Water Supply Land: 1.5 mi
- UMass Experimental Forest: 1.9 mi
- Quabbin Reservoir Watershed: 2.2 mi
- Timber Frame: 2.6 mi
- SSG 102: 8.9 mi
- War Memorial Pool: 9.6 mi
- The Rock House: 10.0 mi
- Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 11.9 mi
- Pond Hill: 2.6 mi
- Turkey Hill: 3.3 mi
- Quabbin Hill: 3.5 mi
- Juckett Hill: 3.5 mi
- East Hill: 4.2 mi
- Winsor Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
- Stone Fountain: 6.7 mi
- Frank A Hyrniewicz Memorial: 6.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: Steel Beam: 7.2 mi
- DonaldCurtis Workshop: 7.4 mi
- Stone House Museum: 0.5 mi
- Belchertown Firefighter's Museum: 0.7 mi
- National Yiddish Book Center: 7.6 mi
- Bob Stiles House Museum: 7.6 mi
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: 7.8 mi
- Pick-your-own Fields: 7.9 mi
- Community Garden: 7.9 mi
- Hampshire Food Forest: 8.0 mi
- Fort River Elementary Gardens: 8.8 mi
- Student Garden: 9.1 mi
- Graffiti Wall: 7.9 mi
- Eusebio, "The Spirit of Soccer": 8.9 mi
- Robert Frost: 9.1 mi
- Quinnipiac: 10.3 mi
- The Power of Creativity Over Concrete: 10.4 mi
- Indian Leap: 9.2 mi
- Titans Piazza: 10.5 mi
- Indian Kitchen: 12.0 mi
- Roaring Falls: 16.3 mi
- Overlook: 17.4 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 8.2 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 11.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.1 mi
- Puffers Pond South Beach: 11.7 mi
- Puffers Pond North Beach: 11.8 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 13.4 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.6 mi
- Picnic: 23.8 mi
- Rd: 14.4 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 14.5 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 14.5 mi
- Bear's Den Falls: 18.8 mi
- Cascade: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Cold Spring Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lincoln | NNW 346° | 375 m | 6.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | N 356° | 371 m | 7.8 mi |
| Colonels Mountain | ESE 108° | 362 m | 8.7 mi |
| Coys Hill | ESE 102° | 356 m | 9.7 mi |
| East Hill | N 0° | 338 m | 4.2 mi |
| Mount Norwottock | WNW 290° | 337 m | 6.4 mi |
| Prescott Hill | NNE 14° | 336 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | NNE 17° | 335 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:35 | 16:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 25 | 34 | 45 | 57 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belchertown, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/29914925
Day trips start here
- Ludlow · 9 mi
- South Hadley · 9 mi
- Amherst · 10 mi
- Hadley · 11 mi
- Pioneer Valley · 11 mi
- Northampton · 12 mi
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