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Roaring Brook Campground

Roaring Brook Campground from directly overhead

Roaring Brook Campground is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 252 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the north-northeast, 3.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Roaring Brook Woodlands, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 12 miles off.

Private, Open To Public With Fee

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Roaring Brook Campground Association Inc.
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.96721, -72.24001

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Staffordville Recreation Area: 2.2 mi
  • Morey Pond Boat Launch: 2.4 mi
  • Heritage Park: 2.4 mi
  • Mill Pond Park: 2.8 mi
  • Town Hall Park: 2.8 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 5.1 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 5.3 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 6.0 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 7.0 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 10.0 mi
Attractions
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 6.6 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.8 mi
  • Goat Rock: 11.8 mi
  • Frog Rock: 11.9 mi
Museums: 58
Artworks: 33
Gardens: 29
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 9.6 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 10.1 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 10.8 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 10.9 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 10.9 mi
Waterfalls: 20
  • Cascade: 5.8 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Cascades: 10.9 mi
  • Cascades: 11.0 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 12.5 mi
Beaches: 9
Cliffs: 5
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 8.8 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.8 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 21.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 5.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 16.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Roaring Brook Campground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNNE 25°396 m3.8 mi
Mount PisgahN 1°379 m7.6 mi
Bald HillENE 78°371 m2.3 mi
Stickney HillENE 58°371 m3.4 mi
Snow HillESE 120°362 m1.8 mi
Lead Mine HillE 98°361 m2.9 mi
Mount HitchcockN 353°356 m8.2 mi
Hedgehog HillNNE 31°354 m0.7 mi
Conditions

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, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43439824

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