Nature reserve · Vermont
Salisbury Fish Culture Section
Salisbury Fish Culture Section is a nature reserve in Vermont, at a modelled elevation of 131 m. Bread Loaf Mountain stands 1,165 m to the northeast, 9.5 miles off. Mad River Byway passes 13 miles off.
How to reach it
Coordinates43.92519, -73.09853
- 13.1 mi off the Mad River Byway
- 15.1 mi off the Lakes to Locks Passage, National
- 17.7 mi off the Scenic Route 100 Byway
- 20.7 mi off the Crossroad of Vermont Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook View · 18 mi
- limited view southeast · 21 mi
- Pine Brook Covered Bridge · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Peaks
- Sunset Hill: 0.8 mi
- Bryant Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Dyer Hill: 2.2 mi
- Mount Moosalamoo: 2.5 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.6 mi
Parks
- Harold Curtiss Recreational Park: 3.3 mi
- Bradbury State Park: 5.8 mi
- Brandon Swamp Wildlife Management Area: 6.9 mi
- Cannon Park: 7.0 mi
- Middlebury Town Green: 7.0 mi
Cliffs: 33
- Silent Cliff: 7.7 mi
- The Ledge: 7.9 mi
- The Great Cliff: 8.7 mi
- Marble Ledge: 8.8 mi
- Dog Team Falls: 10.2 mi
Nature reserves: 29
- Salisbury Fish Culture Section: 0.3 mi
- Battell Woods Natural Area: 6.6 mi
- Means Woods Natural Area: 6.8 mi
- Brandon Town Forest: 8.8 mi
- Goshen Town Forest: 9.1 mi
Historic sites: 28
- Robert Frost Summer Home: 5.4 mi
- Middlebury to Her Soldiers: 7.0 mi
- Court Square: 7.0 mi
- Frederick Douglass Launched The One Hundred Conventions: 7.0 mi
- Emma Willard Memorial: 7.1 mi
Museums: 19
- Cornwall Historical Society: 6.0 mi
- Middlebury College Museum of Art: 6.7 mi
- Sheldon Museum: 7.0 mi
- Brandon Museum: 8.6 mi
- New England Maple Museum: 14.9 mi
Artworks: 18
- Queen Connie: 2.8 mi
- Around and About: 6.7 mi
- LOVE: 6.7 mi
- Two-Way Mirror Curved Hedge Zig-Zag Labyrinth: 6.7 mi
- Chaos Xaxis: 6.9 mi
Waterfalls: 15
- Falls of Lana: 2.3 mi
- Middlebury Falls: 7.0 mi
- Abbey Pond Cascades (upper): 7.5 mi
- Abbey Pond Cascades (lower): 7.5 mi
- Bittersweet Falls: 9.3 mi
Attractions: 7
- Middlebury Gorge Concrete Arch Bridge: 3.2 mi
- Robert Frost Interpretive Area: 4.9 mi
- Lemon Fair Sculpture Park: 8.1 mi
- Nature preserve: 16.3 mi
- Star Trek Original Series Set Tours: 17.1 mi
Gardens: 7
- Middlebury Community Garden: 6.3 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 15.4 mi
- Colonial Revival King's Garden: 15.4 mi
- Japanese Garden: 16.8 mi
- Northwest Community Garden: 22.2 mi
Beaches: 6
- Black Point Public Beach: 18.9 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Beach: 19.4 mi
- Port Henry Village Beach: 19.7 mi
- Punch Bowl swimming hole: 20.0 mi
- Hague Town Beach: 23.5 mi
Covered bridges: 4
- Pulp Mill Covered Bridge: 7.9 mi
- Gorham Covered Bridge: 17.2 mi
- Warren Covered Bridge: 17.6 mi
- Big Eddy Covered Bridge: 22.8 mi
Picnic sites: 4
- Lions Club Picnic Area: 14.6 mi
- Bulwagga Bay Pavillion: 19.4 mi
- Powerhouse Park: 19.6 mi
- Witherbee Park and Bandstand: 19.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Robert Frost Wayside: 5.1 mi
Springs: 1
- Lucky Seven: 6.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Salisbury Fish Culture Section. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bread Loaf Mountain | NE 56° | 1,165 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mount Wilson | ENE 57° | 1,147 m | 10.2 mi |
| Battell Mountain | ENE 63° | 1,043 m | 9.1 mi |
| Cape Lookoff Mountain | SE 128° | 1,024 m | 7.9 mi |
| Gillespie Peak | ESE 122° | 1,019 m | 7.1 mi |
| Goshen Mountain | SE 136° | 1,002 m | 9.2 mi |
| Boyce Mountain | ENE 67° | 989 m | 8.6 mi |
| Worth Mountain | E 99° | 983 m | 6.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:27 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:55 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 15:31 | 16:18 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 20 | 22 | 32 | 44 | 57 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 49 | 37 | 26 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salisbury 2 N, under a mile away.
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage16 obs
- eastern white pine12 obs
- northern red oak10 obs
- northern whitecedar9 obs
- sensitive fern9 obs
- american witch-hazel8 obs
- Painted Lichen Moth8 obs
- Common Loon7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1332859424
Day trips start here
- Middlebury · 6 mi
- Crown Point · 17 mi
- Waitsfield · 23 mi
- Westport · 24 mi
- Charlotte · 28 mi
- Hinesburg · 28 mi
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