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Skyview Drive Open Space

Skyview Drive Open Space from directly overhead

Skyview Drive Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 240 m. Bald Mountain stands 322 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Mile Hill Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Coventry
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.82576, -72.39665
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Middle Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
  • Upper Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
  • Indian Notch Park: 2.2 mi
  • Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 2.4 mi
  • Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 2.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Ronald E. Blake: 2.7 mi
  • Frank Lombardi Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • dog memorial: 5.9 mi
  • Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 6.1 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 6.9 mi
Museums
Artworks
Gardens: 56
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 3.2 mi
  • sensory garden: 4.4 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 7.3 mi
Attractions: 51
  • filled-in well: 2.7 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 8.6 mi
  • Wolf Rock: 10.5 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 10.8 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 10.8 mi
Waterfalls: 42
  • Hockanum Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 4.7 mi
  • Cascades: 5.9 mi
  • Cascades: 5.9 mi
  • Case Falls: 6.5 mi
Cliffs: 14
Beaches: 8
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 18.6 mi
  • Picnic: 20.9 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 6.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.9 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 12.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Skyview Drive Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald MountainN 356°322 m11.5 mi
Soapstone MountainN 355°315 m9.2 mi
Paulk HillN 8°294 m3.8 mi
Crow HillNNE 13°292 m11.9 mi
Whifford HillENE 57°291 m8.4 mi
Kendall HillNNE 15°290 m6.8 mi
Westford HillENE 60°290 m12.0 mi
Grant HillSE 141°284 m0.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1415:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485866727063524233
Precip in3.63.04.44.23.74.54.04.34.54.63.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1349082330

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