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Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve

Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve from directly overhead

Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Duck Pond, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
The Nature Conservancy
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.22604, -73.05743

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lower Duck Pond: 0.0 mi
  • Upper Duck Pond: 0.2 mi
  • Milford Green: 0.3 mi
  • Milford Green: 0.3 mi
  • Wilcox Park: 0.4 mi
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 0.5 mi
  • Americana Museum: 2.8 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 2.9 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 2.9 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 4.4 mi
Beaches
  • Gulf Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Fort Trumbull Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Silver Beach: 1.6 mi
  • Bayview Beach: 1.8 mi
  • Silver Sands: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Bryan Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Knobb Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Eels Hill: 2.2 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 2.3 mi
Gardens: 53
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.8 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 3.7 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 6.3 mi
  • SIS Community Garden: 6.8 mi
Waterfalls: 34
  • Farmill River Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Cascades: 4.9 mi
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Cascade: 5.8 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 8.6 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.8 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.9 mi
  • Mother Mary: 6.1 mi
  • Heron: 6.8 mi
  • An American Dream: 8.3 mi
Attractions: 20
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 4.1 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.8 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 10.9 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 11.7 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.0 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 6.5 mi
  • Pond View: 11.2 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 11.2 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.4 mi
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 3.8 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 3.8 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.7 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 23.1 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 23.2 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 342°202 m10.0 mi
Barn HillNW 321°200 m10.5 mi
Moose HillNW 314°198 m10.7 mi
Israel HillNW 318°192 m9.5 mi
Round HillNNE 14°190 m11.5 mi
Bugg HillNW 309°189 m10.8 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 328°188 m10.0 mi
Peck HillN 7°183 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:04
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43398287

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