High Meadow Lane Open Space
High Meadow Lane Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 230 m. Soapstone Mountain stands 315 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Camp Newhocka, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 24 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of Coventry
How to reach it
- 23.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 27.7 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
Named places within 25 miles
- Camp Newhocka: 0.5 mi
- Cedar Swamp Road Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Susan Lane: 1.0 mi
- Skyview Drive Open Space: 1.3 mi
- Valley Falls Park: 1.5 mi
- Upper Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 0.6 mi
- Middle Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 0.6 mi
- Indian Notch Park: 0.9 mi
- Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 1.1 mi
- Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.2 mi
- Grant Hill: 1.5 mi
- Box Hill: 2.1 mi
- Reed Hill: 2.3 mi
- Whites Hill: 3.5 mi
- Fox Hill: 3.8 mi
- Vernon Historical Society Museum: 3.1 mi
- New England Civil War Museum: 4.2 mi
- Hicks-Stearns Family Museum: 4.7 mi
- Old Tolland County Jail and Museum: 4.7 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 6.6 mi
- Sorry Rock: 3.6 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 8.3 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 8.3 mi
- The Walking Wall: 8.3 mi
- The Walking Wall: 8.4 mi
- Ronald E. Blake: 4.0 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 4.4 mi
- dog memorial: 5.8 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 6.4 mi
- Construction Workers Memorial: 8.2 mi
- filled-in well: 2.2 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 7.3 mi
- Hay Tedder: 9.5 mi
- The Dreamyard: 9.8 mi
- Car Wreck: 10.0 mi
- Tolland Youth Garden: 4.4 mi
- sensory garden: 4.8 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 7.4 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 8.0 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 8.2 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 3.8 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 4.0 mi
- Case Falls: 5.2 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 5.3 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 6.0 mi
- Flag Rock: 2.3 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 10.5 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 11.1 mi
- Coney Rock: 11.2 mi
- Crow Point: 12.7 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 6.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 8.5 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 15.0 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 16.1 mi
- Babbs Beach: 22.9 mi
- Gay City State Park: 6.1 mi
- Bara-Hack: 21.3 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 8.2 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 8.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 24.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 18.8 mi
- Picnic: 22.2 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.3 mi
- Windham Spring: 12.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of High Meadow Lane Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soapstone Mountain | N 1° | 315 m | 10.1 mi |
| Paulk Hill | NNE 18° | 294 m | 4.9 mi |
| Whifford Hill | NE 56° | 291 m | 9.7 mi |
| Kendall Hill | NNE 20° | 290 m | 7.9 mi |
| Grant Hill | ENE 79° | 284 m | 1.5 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NNE 22° | 282 m | 6.1 mi |
| Reed Hill | NNE 17° | 275 m | 2.3 mi |
| Parker Mountain | NE 51° | 275 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:38 | 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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1349082331
Day trips start here
- Tolland · 5 mi
- Storrs · 9 mi
- East Windsor · 10 mi
- Somers · 12 mi
- Willimantic · 12 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 17 mi
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