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Crystal Lake Road Open Space

Crystal Lake Road Open Space from directly overhead

Crystal Lake Road Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 170 m. Bald Hill stands 371 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Webster Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Ellington
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.92072, -72.40899

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • North Cemetery: 1.7 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 1.7 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 1.9 mi
  • Arbor Park: 3.1 mi
Gardens: 60
  • sensory garden: 3.2 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 4.2 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 10.3 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 11.0 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions: 54
  • filled-in well: 6.4 mi
  • Goat Rock: 9.8 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 12.5 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 13.5 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 37
  • Hockanum Falls: 4.1 mi
  • Cascade: 4.8 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 7.8 mi
  • Cascades: 9.9 mi
  • Cascades: 10.0 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 17.1 mi
  • Rd: 22.7 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 22.7 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 22.8 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 13.4 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 17.7 mi
  • Picnic: 18.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 6.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Crystal Lake Road Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillENE 71°371 m11.5 mi
Snow HillENE 77°362 m10.5 mi
Lead Mine HillENE 76°361 m11.9 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 67°354 m9.9 mi
Tupper HillNE 42°352 m10.4 mi
Bear HillNE 43°347 m10.8 mi
Moss HillNE 45°341 m11.1 mi
Peck HillNNE 30°336 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1515:3716:22

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, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1349366511

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