Echo Lake
Echo Lake is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 75 m. Whifford Hill stands 291 m to the north-northwest, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Pond Lot, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 12 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee. Town Open Space; Existing Preserved Open Space
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of Mansfield
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 15.8 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 6.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Pond Lot: 0.1 mi
- Center Meadow: 0.3 mi
- Storrs Road Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Bassetts Bridge Road Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Southworth Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Southeast Park: 0.5 mi
- Mansfield Hollow Lake Boat Launch: 0.9 mi
- Spring Hill Fields: 2.2 mi
- Sunny Acres Park: 2.5 mi
- Alex Caisse Park: 2.7 mi
- Wolf Rock: 1.0 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 2.4 mi
- Tower Hill: 2.8 mi
- Beaver Hill: 3.2 mi
- Wormwood Hill: 3.6 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 2.2 mi
- Old root cellar: 3.3 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 3.8 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 5.9 mi
- dog memorial: 7.5 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 2.2 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 3.7 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 3.7 mi
- Windham Textile and History Museum: 3.9 mi
- Jillison House Museum: 3.9 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 3.7 mi
- U’s and C’s: 3.8 mi
- Copper Tower: 3.8 mi
- Willy: 3.9 mi
- Manny: 4.0 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 3.3 mi
- Codfish Falls: 4.4 mi
- Cascades: 5.6 mi
- Cascades: 5.6 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 8.6 mi
- Wolf Rock: 1.2 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 4.9 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 5.1 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 8.1 mi
- Frog Rock: 10.2 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 2.9 mi
- Mary's Garden: 3.8 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 4.4 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 4.4 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 4.4 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 8.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.7 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 16.2 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 17.0 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 19.6 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 1.2 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 2.0 mi
- Coney Rock: 2.1 mi
- Flag Rock: 13.3 mi
- Crow Point: 22.3 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 10.2 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 10.3 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 20.6 mi
- Bara-Hack: 12.2 mi
- Gay City State Park: 13.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.7 mi
- Windham Spring: 2.8 mi
- Picnic: 18.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Echo Lake. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whifford Hill | NNW 338° | 291 m | 9.3 mi |
| Sprague Hill | NE 42° | 257 m | 9.3 mi |
| Wenberg Hill | N 350° | 245 m | 8.1 mi |
| Pumpkin Hill | NNE 33° | 241 m | 6.5 mi |
| Sunset Hill | ENE 71° | 240 m | 6.2 mi |
| Post Hill | SW 229° | 239 m | 10.0 mi |
| Summer Hill | NNE 20° | 236 m | 10.0 mi |
| Clark Hill | E 82° | 235 m | 4.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 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 | 37 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Willimantic Windham AP, 2 mi away.
- Bald Eagle97 obs
- Fowler's Toad80 obs
- Great Blue Heron79 obs
- pink lady's slipper65 obs
- Common Merganser59 obs
- Eastern Bluebird56 obs
- Eastern Tailed-Blue52 obs
- Song Sparrow50 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/954111707
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 4 mi
- Willimantic · 4 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 9 mi
- Tolland · 12 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 15 mi
- Union · 15 mi
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