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Mountain View Road Open Space

Mountain View Road Open Space from directly overhead

Mountain View Road Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 213 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Gulf Road Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 21 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Somers

How to reach it

Coordinates41.97115, -72.41870

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Somers Common: 1.7 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 3.0 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 3.4 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 5.1 mi
  • North Cemetery: 5.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Ronald E. Blake: 8.0 mi
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 8.0 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 8.3 mi
  • JFK Eternal Flame: 10.4 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 10.5 mi
Artworks
Gardens: 59
  • sensory garden: 6.4 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Wilbraham Community Garden: 10.0 mi
  • Forest Park Aquatic Gardens: 10.9 mi
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 12.0 mi
Attractions: 53
  • Goat Rock: 6.3 mi
  • filled-in well: 9.6 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 11.2 mi
  • Path Continues: 12.5 mi
  • Path Continues: 12.6 mi
Waterfalls: 26
  • Cascade: 3.4 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 7.3 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 10.8 mi
  • Cascades: 13.0 mi
  • Cascades: 13.1 mi
Cliffs: 13
Beaches: 10
Springs: 4
  • Rd: 19.6 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 19.6 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 19.7 mi
  • Windham Spring: 20.3 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 11.1 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 14.5 mi
  • Picnic: 17.5 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 8.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 8.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Mountain View Road Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillENE 74°396 m11.2 mi
Bald HillE 89°371 m11.4 mi
Snow HillE 96°362 m10.8 mi
Mount HitchcockNE 46°356 m11.3 mi
Hedgehog HillE 88°354 m9.6 mi
Tupper HillENE 61°352 m8.6 mi
Bear HillENE 60°347 m9.0 mi
Moss HillENE 62°341 m9.4 mi

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, 8 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1344570140

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