Eagleville Preserve
Eagleville Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Mansfield Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 16 miles off.
Access from Route 275 across from the Eagleville Dam through State land. Loop trail along scenic bend of Willimantic River and through old pasture reverting to forest.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of Mansfield
How to reach it
- 16.4 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 20.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.9 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Stonehouse Road Open Space: 0.3 mi
- Oak Leaf Drive Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Root Road Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Sean Circle Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Elizabeth Couch Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Eagleville Pond Boat Launch: 0.4 mi
- Pine Lake Community Club: 0.6 mi
- Veteran Green: 1.7 mi
- Patriots Park: 1.7 mi
- Coventry Lake State Boat Launch: 1.8 mi
- Ball Hill: 1.0 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 3.0 mi
- Riley Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Horsebarn Hill: 3.1 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.8 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 1.3 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 1.6 mi
- dog memorial: 3.4 mi
- Old root cellar: 3.6 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 3.8 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 2.2 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 2.4 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 2.6 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 2.7 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 2.9 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 2.2 mi
- Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid: 2.3 mi
- Stone Book Universe: 2.4 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 2.4 mi
- The Fallen: 2.4 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 2.4 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 2.5 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 2.5 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- Cascades: 2.2 mi
- Cascades: 2.3 mi
- Codfish Falls: 4.1 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 7.7 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 10.4 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.7 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 6.3 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 8.8 mi
- filled-in well: 9.5 mi
- Eagle Rock: 11.3 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 5.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.6 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 15.0 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 21.2 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 21.5 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 3.5 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 3.7 mi
- Coney Rock: 4.3 mi
- Flag Rock: 8.7 mi
- Crow Point: 18.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 7.9 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.9 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 22.7 mi
- Gay City State Park: 9.1 mi
- Bara-Hack: 15.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.2 mi
- Picnic: 19.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.9 mi
- Windham Spring: 5.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Eagleville Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NW 322° | 294 m | 8.9 mi |
| Whifford Hill | N 8° | 291 m | 7.8 mi |
| Westford Hill | NNE 25° | 290 m | 10.2 mi |
| Grant Hill | WNW 295° | 284 m | 6.1 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NNW 329° | 282 m | 9.3 mi |
| Reed Hill | NW 306° | 275 m | 7.8 mi |
| Parker Mountain | N 9° | 275 m | 9.2 mi |
| Sharpe Hill | NNE 23° | 268 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1072005659
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 3 mi
- Willimantic · 5 mi
- Tolland · 8 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 13 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 15 mi
- Union · 16 mi
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