Nature reserve · Connecticut

Pratt Street Open Space

Pratt Street Open Space from directly overhead

Pratt Street Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east-northeast, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Shipyard Park, a park 0.2 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Town of Rocky Hill

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.66388, -72.63094

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Shipyard Park: 0.2 mi
Dr. Barbara Orsini Surwilo Park: 0.2 mi
Ferry Landing Park: 0.2 mi
Ferry Park: 0.3 mi
Center Green: 0.4 mi

Museums

Academy Hall Museum: 0.4 mi
Rocky Hill Fire Museum: 0.5 mi
Welles-Shipman-Ward House: 1.6 mi
Dinosaur State Park Exhibit Center: 1.6 mi
Museum on the Green: 2.8 mi

Historic sites

9/11 Memorial: 0.4 mi
Graffiti Arches: 0.5 mi
Wells and Wilcox Manufacturing 1870-1910: 1.2 mi
Bulkeley Corne Mill 1680-1830: 1.2 mi
Billings Manufacturing 1884: 1.3 mi

Peaks

Rocky Hill: 0.7 mi
Red Hill: 1.6 mi
Hang-Dog Hill: 2.0 mi
Harriss Hill: 2.7 mi
Belltown Hill: 3.2 mi

Nature reserves

Waterfalls

Dividend Falls: 1.2 mi
Cascades: 2.4 mi
Carr Brook Falls: 4.9 mi
Mill Pond Falls: 5.6 mi
The Cascade: 6.3 mi

Attractions

Constitution Oak: 3.5 mi
Hay Tedder: 6.0 mi
State Forest Quarry #1: 6.6 mi
Come On Over Wall: 6.6 mi
Car Wreck: 6.6 mi

Gardens

Colonial Revival Garden: 3.5 mi
Heritage Herb Garden: 3.5 mi
Wethersfield Community Gardens: 3.5 mi
Frank Weston Rose Garden: 3.7 mi
Cromwell Community Garden: 4.6 mi

Artworks

CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 4.3 mi
Face in Tree: 5.2 mi
Frog: 6.3 mi
Equality: 6.7 mi
The Circuit Rider: 7.1 mi

Cliffs22

Crow Point: 3.1 mi
Green Wall: 10.7 mi
Porcupine Hole: 10.7 mi
South Wall: 11.2 mi
Solar Panel: 11.3 mi

Beaches8

Lake Beseck Beach: 11.5 mi
Dossin Park Beach: 14.5 mi
Mattatuck Beach: 18.3 mi
Boating Side: 21.2 mi
Waterfront: 21.3 mi

Rest areas5

Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.5 mi
Southington Rest Area: 15.5 mi
Wallingford Rest Area: 16.0 mi
West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 23.4 mi
West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 23.4 mi

Ghost towns2

Gay City State Park: 10.7 mi
Johnsonville Village: 14.7 mi

Picnic sites1

Picnic Grove: 21.4 mi

Springs1

Windham Spring: 22.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Pratt Street Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mannantuck	ENE 69°	273 m	8.7 mi
John Tom Hill	ENE 69°	272 m	8.7 mi
Meshomasic Mountain	ESE 117°	265 m	5.1 mi
Clark Hill	SE 131°	241 m	7.2 mi
Kongscut Mountain	ENE 72°	234 m	7.0 mi
Raccoon Hill	SE 130°	228 m	5.7 mi
Great Hill	SE 146°	222 m	7.0 mi
Minnechaug Mountain	NE 55°	215 m	7.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:55	18:26	19:03
June solstice	05:17	19:47	20:29
September equinox	06:39	18:13	18:50
December solstice	07:15	15:39	16:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	29	31	39	50	61	70	75	74	66	54	43	34
Precip in	2.9	2.6	3.5	3.8	3.4	3.9	3.9	3.5	4.0	4.2	3.4	3.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1017702824

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