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Coop Road I Open Space

Coop Road I Open Space from directly overhead

Coop Road I Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 197 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Coop Road II Open Space, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 25 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Glastonbury
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.74143, -72.48099
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Attractions
  • Nike Missile Site: 1.7 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 3.6 mi
  • Car Wreck: 4.1 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 5.2 mi
  • filled-in well: 6.6 mi
Parks
  • Neipsic Tennis Club: 1.8 mi
  • Mount Nebo Park: 2.2 mi
  • Spruce Street Community Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Munro Park: 2.9 mi
  • Center Park: 3.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks: 60
Waterfalls: 58
  • Case Falls: 1.5 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 1.6 mi
  • Blackledge Falls: 3.0 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Cascade: 3.9 mi
Gardens: 52
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 6.3 mi
Cliffs: 15
Beaches: 7
Rest areas: 5
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 14.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 14.1 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.7 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 24.8 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 24.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 14.4 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Coop Road I Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillNNE 27°294 m10.8 mi
Grant HillNE 43°284 m7.1 mi
Reed HillNNE 29°275 m8.2 mi
MannantuckS 169°273 m2.3 mi
John Tom HillS 169°272 m2.3 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSW 202°265 m8.3 mi
Box HillNNE 18°252 m4.4 mi
Clark HillSSW 193°241 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1619:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1515:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/951327598

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