Cottrell Marsh
Cottrell Marsh is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Stewart Hill stands 149 m to the north-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Lambs Way Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 7.9 miles off.
Both sides of Latimer Point Road, south of railroad tracks. Access onto marsh restricted to protect fragile habitat. Salt marsh and some higher wooded areas.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Avalonia Land Conservancy
How to reach it
- 7.9 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 17.1 mi off the Shannock Road
- 18.6 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.6 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lambs Way Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Knox Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Knox Family Farm Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Mistuxet Hill Preserve (Avalonia Land Conservancy): 1.4 mi
- Ram Point: 1.5 mi
- Williams Beach: 0.5 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 1.5 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 1.6 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 2.0 mi
- DuBois Beach: 2.6 mi
- Willams Beach Park: 0.6 mi
- Mystic River Park Playground: 1.2 mi
- Mystic River Park: 1.3 mi
- Mystic Academy Park: 1.6 mi
- Mystic Little League Field: 1.7 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.0 mi
- Pequot Hill: 2.1 mi
- Fort Hill: 3.1 mi
- Quoketaug Hill: 3.7 mi
- Hazelnut Hill: 3.9 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Master Shipbuilders: 1.6 mi
- Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan: 1.7 mi
- Mystic Seaport Museum First Building: 1.7 mi
- Noank Remembers Memorial Bell: 2.1 mi
- Mystic Museum of Art: 1.3 mi
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 1.6 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 1.6 mi
- Denison Homestead: 1.6 mi
- Children's Museum: 1.6 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 1.4 mi
- Mystic Blue: 1.7 mi
- Mjolnir: 2.3 mi
- Penguin: 2.3 mi
- Giant Gnome: 2.3 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 1.4 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 1.4 mi
- Watch Hill Carousel: 5.3 mi
- This Old House Westerly House: 6.8 mi
- The Whale: 7.4 mi
- Cascade: 3.5 mi
- Cascade: 3.7 mi
- Silver Falls: 14.7 mi
- Yantic Falls: 15.2 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 21.3 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 7.7 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 8.1 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 8.2 mi
- Sensory Garden: 8.5 mi
- Sprout Garden: 8.6 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 5.5 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 5.5 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 5.5 mi
- Oil Shed: 5.5 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 20.9 mi
- Crow Head: 19.1 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 21.1 mi
- Clay Head: 22.3 mi
- Mohegan Bluffs: 23.6 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 23.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 2.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 12.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 21.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 21.1 mi
- Powder House: 8.6 mi
- Skate Hut: 8.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 15.0 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 15.1 mi
- Old Spring: 5.8 mi
- Factory Pond: 18.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Cottrell Marsh. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart Hill | NNE 21° | 149 m | 10.2 mi |
| Ayer Hill | N 358° | 144 m | 9.9 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | N 10° | 139 m | 8.5 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | NNE 16° | 139 m | 9.4 mi |
| Swantown Hill | N 9° | 132 m | 9.4 mi |
| Church Hill | NNW 343° | 120 m | 8.4 mi |
| Lantern Hill | N 3° | 118 m | 8.3 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | NW 309° | 108 m | 6.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/43398307
Day trips start here
- Mystic · 1 mi
- Stonington · 3 mi
- Groton · 4 mi
- Watch Hill · 6 mi
- Westerly · 7 mi
- Ledyard · 8 mi
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