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Kimball Forest

Kimball Forest from directly overhead

Kimball Forest is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 155 m. Snow Hill stands 362 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Laurel Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Ellington
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.91435, -72.43507

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Arbor Park: 1.7 mi
  • North Cemetery: 2.3 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 2.5 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 3.1 mi
  • Talcott Park: 3.2 mi
Gardens
  • sensory garden: 2.4 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 4.7 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 11.5 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 11.5 mi
Peaks
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions: 50
  • filled-in well: 5.6 mi
  • Goat Rock: 10.1 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 11.1 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 12.7 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 12.9 mi
Waterfalls: 38
  • Hockanum Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Cascade: 6.0 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 6.8 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Cascades: 10.5 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 17.7 mi
  • Rd: 22.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 22.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 22.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 12.6 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 17.5 mi
  • Picnic: 19.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 7.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Kimball Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Snow HillENE 77°362 m11.9 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 68°354 m11.3 mi
Tupper HillNE 46°352 m11.7 mi
Bear HillNE 46°347 m12.0 mi
Peck HillNE 35°336 m11.7 mi
Chestnut HillNE 34°332 m7.3 mi
Moon MountainNNE 19°330 m11.6 mi
Rattlesnake HillN 10°323 m8.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1515:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633455564706862504030
Precip in3.83.34.34.33.84.64.14.44.34.94.04.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Staffordville, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/818191242

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