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Roaring Brook Woodlands

Roaring Brook Woodlands from directly overhead

Roaring Brook Woodlands is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 209 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the north-northeast, 3.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Roaring Brook Campground, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 13 miles off.

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What to expect

Operated by
Northern Connecticut Land Trust
Getting there

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Coordinates41.96800, -72.24525

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Staffordville Recreation Area: 2.0 mi
  • Heritage Park: 2.2 mi
  • Mill Pond Park: 2.5 mi
  • Town Hall Park: 2.5 mi
  • Furnace Hollow Square Park: 2.5 mi
Museums: 60
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 5.0 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 5.5 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 5.9 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 7.0 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 9.9 mi
Attractions
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 6.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.7 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.8 mi
  • Goat Rock: 11.6 mi
  • Frog Rock: 12.1 mi
Artworks: 34
Gardens: 29
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 9.5 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 10.2 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 10.9 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 10.9 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 10.9 mi
Waterfalls: 20
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 10.0 mi
  • Cascades: 11.0 mi
  • Cascades: 11.0 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 12.3 mi
Beaches: 9
Cliffs: 5
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 9.0 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.5 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 21.1 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 5.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.9 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 16.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Roaring Brook Woodlands. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillNNE 29°396 m3.9 mi
Mount PisgahN 3°379 m7.6 mi
Bald HillE 81°371 m2.5 mi
Stickney HillENE 61°371 m3.6 mi
Snow HillESE 118°362 m2.0 mi
Lead Mine HillE 98°361 m3.1 mi
Mount HitchcockN 355°356 m8.1 mi
Hedgehog HillNE 48°354 m0.9 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/1344555140

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