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House Street Open Space

House Street Open Space from directly overhead

House Street Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east, 6.6 miles off. The nearest named place is State Highway Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Glastonbury

How to reach it

Coordinates41.71843, -72.59981

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Welles Park: 0.6 mi
  • Richard H. Ross Field: 0.9 mi
  • Glastonbury Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • Addison Park: 1.2 mi
  • Hubbard Green Park: 1.2 mi
Museums
Peaks
Artworks
Attractions
  • Constitution Oak: 2.8 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 3.9 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 4.7 mi
  • Car Wreck: 5.4 mi
  • Keney Tower: 5.5 mi
Historic sites
Waterfalls
  • Cascades: 3.8 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 5.8 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 6.3 mi
  • Case Falls: 6.4 mi
Gardens: 55
Cliffs: 20
  • Crow Point: 1.2 mi
  • Flag Rock: 9.3 mi
  • South Wall: 10.8 mi
  • Solar Panel: 10.9 mi
  • Superstructure: 10.9 mi
Beaches: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.5 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 18.7 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.7 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 19.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 23.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 20.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of House Street Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckE 96°273 m6.6 mi
John Tom HillE 96°272 m6.6 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSE 154°265 m6.8 mi
Box HillNE 52°252 m9.5 mi
Clark HillSSE 156°241 m9.3 mi
Lookout MountainENE 67°237 m6.4 mi
Kongscut MountainESE 107°234 m5.3 mi
Birch MountainENE 70°233 m6.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 3 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/948007047

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