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Nipmuck Woods

Nipmuck Woods from directly overhead

Nipmuck Woods is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 234 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the north-northeast, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Bob White Farm, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 13 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Northern Connecticut Land Trust

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.95747, -72.25369

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Museums: 60
Parks
  • Heritage Park: 1.6 mi
  • Furnace Hollow Square Park: 2.6 mi
  • Town Hall Park: 2.6 mi
  • Mill Pond Park: 2.6 mi
  • Staffordville Recreation Area: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 4.2 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 5.0 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 6.0 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 6.2 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 9.1 mi
Attractions: 54
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 6.9 mi
  • Path Continues: 9.5 mi
  • Path Continues: 9.5 mi
  • Goat Rock: 11.7 mi
  • Frog Rock: 12.1 mi
Artworks: 43
Gardens: 29
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 8.6 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 9.4 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 10.1 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 10.2 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 10.2 mi
Waterfalls: 21
  • Cascade: 5.2 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 9.3 mi
  • Cascades: 10.2 mi
  • Cascades: 10.2 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 11.6 mi
Beaches: 9
Cliffs: 5
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 9.7 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.3 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 21.2 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 4.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 16.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Nipmuck Woods. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNNE 29°396 m4.7 mi
Mount PisgahN 5°379 m8.4 mi
Bald HillENE 69°371 m3.1 mi
Stickney HillNE 56°371 m4.4 mi
Snow HillE 96°362 m2.3 mi
Lead Mine HillE 85°361 m3.6 mi
Hedgehog HillNE 40°354 m1.7 mi
Tupper HillN 349°352 m5.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2419:01
June solstice05:1419:4620:29
September equinox06:3718:1118:48
December solstice07:1415:3616:21

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, 3 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1067435191

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