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Lookout Landing Open Space

Lookout Landing Open Space from directly overhead

Lookout Landing Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 87 m. Hedgehog Hill stands 354 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Joy Property, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 24 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Ellington
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.94429, -72.45802

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Arbor Park: 2.9 mi
  • Somers Common: 3.0 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 4.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 4.1 mi
  • North Cemetery: 4.5 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • sensory garden: 4.5 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 10.3 mi
  • Forest Park Aquatic Gardens: 10.9 mi
  • Side Garden: 11.2 mi
Historic sites
  • Ronald E. Blake: 7.3 mi
  • Soldiers Memorial Hall: 8.8 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 9.0 mi
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 9.0 mi
  • Veterans' Memorial: 10.2 mi
Artworks
  • Sorry Rock: 10.3 mi
  • The Three Graces: 11.1 mi
  • Miles Morgan: 12.8 mi
  • 1856 City Hall Bell: 12.8 mi
  • Horton Court: 12.8 mi
Attractions: 56
  • filled-in well: 7.7 mi
  • Goat Rock: 8.2 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 10.5 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 11.7 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 12.0 mi
Waterfalls: 30
  • Hockanum Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Cascade: 5.8 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 8.5 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 12.7 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Rd: 20.0 mi
  • Windham Spring: 20.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 20.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 20.0 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 10.4 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 15.1 mi
  • Picnic: 19.9 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 9.0 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 9.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Lookout Landing Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hedgehog HillE 79°354 m11.8 mi
Tupper HillENE 57°352 m11.3 mi
Bear HillENE 57°347 m11.7 mi
Peck HillNE 46°336 m10.9 mi
Chestnut HillNE 53°332 m6.6 mi
Moon MountainNNE 29°330 m10.2 mi
Rattlesnake HillNNE 23°323 m6.7 mi
Bald MountainNE 36°322 m4.1 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/1349366537

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