Nathan Hale State Forest
Nathan Hale State Forest is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 170 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Nathan Hale Homestead, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 19 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 170 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
How to reach it
- 19.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 23.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 12.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Nathan Hale Homestead: 0.2 mi
- Carol Drive Open Space: 0.3 mi
- South Street Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Bear Swamp Road Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Daly Road Open Space: 1.3 mi
- dog memorial: 0.8 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 2.1 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 4.9 mi
- Ronald E. Blake: 7.0 mi
- Bunker Hill: 1.6 mi
- Riley Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Monument Hill: 3.5 mi
- New Boston Hill: 4.3 mi
- Grant Hill: 4.4 mi
- Lisicke Beach: 1.9 mi
- Andover Veterans Monument Park: 1.9 mi
- Coventry Lake State Boat Launch: 1.9 mi
- Patriots Park: 2.0 mi
- Veteran Green: 2.1 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 5.7 mi
- Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid: 5.7 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 5.7 mi
- The Walking Wall: 5.8 mi
- The Walking Wall: 5.8 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 3.8 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 5.8 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 5.8 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 5.9 mi
- Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 5.9 mi
- Wolf Rock: 6.9 mi
- filled-in well: 7.3 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 7.7 mi
- Eagle Rock: 8.5 mi
- Insect Hotel: 8.7 mi
- Cascades: 4.7 mi
- Cascades: 4.8 mi
- Blackledge Falls: 7.1 mi
- Case Falls: 7.4 mi
- Codfish Falls: 7.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 5.6 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 6.9 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 7.1 mi
- Coney Rock: 7.9 mi
- Crow Point: 14.5 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 7.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.9 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 16.9 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 21.1 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 24.3 mi
- Gay City State Park: 5.4 mi
- Bara-Hack: 19.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 9.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 9.5 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 23.1 mi
- Picnic: 22.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 23.7 mi
- Windham Spring: 7.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Nathan Hale State Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NNW 346° | 294 m | 8.6 mi |
| Whifford Hill | NNE 26° | 291 m | 10.1 mi |
| Kendall Hill | N 356° | 290 m | 11.1 mi |
| Grant Hill | NNW 332° | 284 m | 4.4 mi |
| Sugar Hill | N 352° | 282 m | 9.3 mi |
| Reed Hill | NNW 334° | 275 m | 6.5 mi |
| Mannantuck | WSW 241° | 273 m | 7.5 mi |
| John Tom Hill | WSW 241° | 272 m | 7.4 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 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 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, 7 mi away.
- American Toad20 obs
- Hickory Tussock Moth16 obs
- Rosy Maple Moth15 obs
- Ghost Pipe14 obs
- Small-eyed Sphinx12 obs
- common jewelweed11 obs
- North American Luna Moth11 obs
- garlic mustard11 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/494576695
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 6 mi
- Willimantic · 7 mi
- Tolland · 8 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 13 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 14 mi
- East Windsor · 15 mi
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