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Cotton Hollow Preserve

Cotton Hollow Preserve from directly overhead

Cotton Hollow Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 50 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east-northeast, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Grange Pool, a park 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 30 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space

The record

What the record says

Elevation
50 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Glastonbury
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.66322, -72.59294
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Grange Pool: 0.5 mi
  • Matson Hill Open Space: 0.7 mi
  • Taylor Family Circle: 1.3 mi
  • Orchard Hill Club: 1.6 mi
  • Ferry Landing Park: 1.7 mi
Waterfalls
  • Cascades: 0.5 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Carr Brook Falls: 4.4 mi
  • The Cascade: 5.0 mi
  • Cascade: 6.2 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Historic sites
Peaks
Artworks
Attractions
  • Hay Tedder: 4.4 mi
  • Constitution Oak: 4.6 mi
  • Car Wreck: 4.8 mi
  • State Forest Quarry #1: 5.4 mi
  • Nathan Hall Quarry: 5.5 mi
Gardens: 54
Cliffs: 21
Beaches: 8
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 10.8 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 17.0 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 17.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 22.0 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 22.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 20.6 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 23.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Cotton Hollow Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckENE 63°273 m6.9 mi
John Tom HillENE 63°272 m7.0 mi
Meshomasic MountainSE 131°265 m3.5 mi
Clark HillSE 144°241 m5.8 mi
Lookout MountainNE 41°237 m8.4 mi
Kongscut MountainENE 64°234 m5.2 mi
Birch MountainNE 44°233 m8.3 mi
Raccoon HillSSE 146°228 m4.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

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, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • garlic mustard25 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee24 obs
  • yellow trout lily22 obs
  • American beech20 obs
  • northern spicebush19 obs
  • red trillium16 obs
  • Christmas fern15 obs
  • American pokeweed14 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/949278896

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