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Forest for Learning

Forest for Learning from directly overhead

Forest for Learning is a nature reserve in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 130 m. Crane Mountain stands 514 m to the northwest, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Bare Hill Conservation Site, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Connecticut River Byway passes 0.6 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.98710, -72.52193

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
Museums: 23
Historic sites: 14
  • Hinsdale Raceway: 12.2 mi
  • Oya Hill: 12.8 mi
  • Keene Soldier's Monument: 12.8 mi
  • Gravity Foundation Monument: 12.9 mi
  • New Hampshire/Vermont/Massachusetts Tri-State Granite Marker: 18.3 mi
Artworks: 13
  • Baseball: 12.8 mi
  • Johnathan Daniels: 12.8 mi
  • Trinity Bicycle Shop: 12.8 mi
  • Pizza Wings: 12.9 mi
  • Jennie B. Powers: 12.9 mi
Cliffs: 7
  • Mine Ledge: 9.0 mi
  • Mine Ledge: 9.1 mi
  • Table Rock: 11.0 mi
  • Troy Cliffs: 18.5 mi
  • Billings Fold: 22.6 mi
Attractions: 7
  • Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 12.8 mi
  • TimberQuest: 19.3 mi
  • Magic Mountain Ski Area: 19.5 mi
  • Green Mountain Railroad: 19.7 mi
  • Site of Original Burton Snowboard Factory and Shop: 22.1 mi
Waterfalls: 6
Covered bridges: 6
Beaches: 5
  • Corona Beach: 14.2 mi
  • Green Mountain Beach: 16.6 mi
  • The Ledges: 20.7 mi
  • Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 21.3 mi
  • Sunset Beach: 21.8 mi
Gardens: 4
Picnic sites: 2
Springs: 1
  • Falcon Spring: 23.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Forest for Learning. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Crane MountainNW 306°514 m6.9 mi
Bald MountainWNW 291°508 m9.0 mi
Putney MountainWNW 288°505 m3.9 mi
Dummerston HillSW 232°500 m9.4 mi
Windmill MountainNNW 331°499 m5.5 mi
Derry HillENE 65°498 m9.0 mi
Ober HillNW 308°493 m10.0 mi
Newfane HillW 267°490 m8.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1219:5020:33
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1915:3316:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222332455564706860493828
Precip in3.13.03.63.83.45.14.84.24.04.63.63.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Walpole 2S Nepp, 6 mi away.

  • Asian Lady Beetle40 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk36 obs
  • Eastern Newt32 obs
  • Hickory Tussock Moth31 obs
  • Bedstraw Hawkmoth30 obs
  • Eastern Panthea Moth29 obs
  • Great Blue Heron26 obs
  • Cedar Waxwing25 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1227800472

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