Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area
Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 198 m. Cotton Hill stands 360 m to the northwest, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Whigville Falls, a waterfall 0.5 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Whigville Falls: 0.5 mi
- Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 0.5 mi
- Seven Steps Falls: 3.5 mi
- Fetzer Falls: 3.6 mi
- Bunnell's Falls: 3.7 mi
- Mount Hope: 1.2 mi
- Wildcat Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Scranton Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Round Hill: 2.2 mi
- Johnnycake Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Pigeon Hill Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Minor Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Barnes Nature Center Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Pigeon Hill Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Shepard Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Seymour Park: 1.8 mi
- Little League Field: 2.6 mi
- Malerbo Rec Complex: 3.0 mi
- Barnes Field: 3.2 mi
- Page Park: 3.7 mi
- Kathy Ebersold plaque: 2.1 mi
- James P. Casey plaque: 2.8 mi
- Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 4.1 mi
- Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 4.1 mi
- Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 4.5 mi
- American Clock and Watch Museum: 3.8 mi
- Bristol Memorial Military Museum: 3.9 mi
- Unionville Museum: 4.3 mi
- Imagine Nation Children's Museum: 4.4 mi
- New England Carousel Museum: 4.4 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 1.1 mi
- Lamothe Sugar House: 1.4 mi
- Tory's Den: 2.0 mi
- Boynton Butterfly Garden: 3.3 mi
- Hogan's Cider Mill: 3.9 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 6.0 mi
- Sunken Garden: 7.4 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 10.0 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 11.1 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 11.1 mi
- Home: 10.4 mi
- Bike Sculpture: 11.2 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 11.6 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 12.0 mi
- Painted Cow: 12.8 mi
- Petro Cliffs: 1.8 mi
- Ravens Roost: 2.0 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 7.0 mi
- Green Wall: 7.1 mi
- Queen Mary Ledge: 7.9 mi
- Boating Side: 7.9 mi
- Waterfront: 7.9 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 12.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 12.9 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 13.8 mi
- Hermit spring: 10.6 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 13.4 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 14.0 mi
- Big Spring: 15.5 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 11.4 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 16.8 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.1 mi
- Picnic Grove: 8.0 mi
- Dudley Town: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Hill | NW 323° | 360 m | 6.9 mi |
| Johnnycake Mountain | NW 314° | 354 m | 2.2 mi |
| Guernsey Hill | W 261° | 346 m | 8.9 mi |
| Scoville Hill | WNW 285° | 340 m | 7.0 mi |
| Hayden Hill | NW 316° | 332 m | 8.4 mi |
| South Mountain | S 172° | 313 m | 5.8 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | S 181° | 312 m | 7.5 mi |
| Camp Hill | WSW 254° | 311 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 5 mi away.
- mountain laurel40 obs
- striped wintergreen40 obs
- pink lady's slipper30 obs
- Canada mayflower30 obs
- Eastern Chipmunk29 obs
- eastern white pine29 obs
- mapleleaf viburnum27 obs
- Ghost Pipe26 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/1337209946
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 24 mi
- Longmeadow · 29 mi
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