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Crystal Peat Conservation Area

Crystal Peat Conservation Area from directly overhead

Crystal Peat Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 209 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Palmer Kendall Mountain Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 19 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Tolland Conservation Commission

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.91567, -72.35355

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 2.1 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 2.2 mi
  • North Cemetery: 2.4 mi
  • River Road Park: 3.5 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 3.3 mi
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 3.3 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 3.9 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 5.9 mi
  • Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 9.9 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 55
  • filled-in well: 7.5 mi
  • Goat Rock: 10.8 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 11.4 mi
  • Wolf Rock: 13.0 mi
  • Path Continues: 13.6 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 3.5 mi
  • sensory garden: 5.1 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 8.1 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 8.9 mi
Waterfalls: 26
  • Cascade: 4.2 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Cascades: 8.0 mi
  • Cascades: 8.1 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 9.1 mi
Beaches: 9
Cliffs: 9
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 15.2 mi
  • Rd: 24.6 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 24.7 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 24.7 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 15.6 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 15.9 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 19.6 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 3.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 3.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Crystal Peat Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNE 47°396 m10.2 mi
Bald HillENE 63°371 m9.0 mi
Stickney HillENE 59°371 m10.3 mi
Snow HillENE 70°362 m7.8 mi
Lead Mine HillENE 70°361 m9.2 mi
Hedgehog HillNE 56°354 m7.5 mi
Tupper HillNNE 27°352 m9.1 mi
Bear HillNNE 28°347 m9.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:49
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, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/808170193

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