Southworth Preserve
Southworth Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 70 m. Whifford Hill stands 291 m to the north-northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Center Meadow, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 12 miles off.
Access from Dodd Road. Wooded trails with views of Chapins Pond and an agricultural field. Connection to Mansfield Hollow State Park.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of Mansfield
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 16.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 6.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Center Meadow: 0.4 mi
- Echo Lake: 0.4 mi
- Holt–Kinney Woods: 0.5 mi
- Pond Lot: 0.6 mi
- Storrs Road Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Southeast Park: 0.4 mi
- Mansfield Hollow Lake Boat Launch: 1.2 mi
- Spring Hill Fields: 1.8 mi
- Sunny Acres Park: 2.7 mi
- Mount Hope Park: 2.9 mi
- Wolf Rock: 1.0 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 2.3 mi
- Tower Hill: 2.8 mi
- Wormwood Hill: 3.3 mi
- Beaver Hill: 3.6 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 1.8 mi
- Old root cellar: 2.8 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 3.4 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 5.6 mi
- dog memorial: 7.2 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 1.8 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 3.3 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 3.3 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 3.8 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 4.0 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 3.3 mi
- U’s and C’s: 3.4 mi
- Copper Tower: 3.4 mi
- The Fallen: 3.6 mi
- Stone Book Universe: 3.7 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 3.5 mi
- Codfish Falls: 4.0 mi
- Cascades: 5.2 mi
- Cascades: 5.2 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 9.0 mi
- Wolf Rock: 1.1 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 5.2 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 5.6 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 8.5 mi
- Frog Rock: 10.1 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 3.2 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 4.0 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 4.0 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 4.0 mi
- Mary's Garden: 4.0 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 7.8 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.3 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 15.9 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 17.3 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 19.4 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 1.2 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 1.6 mi
- Coney Rock: 1.7 mi
- Flag Rock: 13.0 mi
- Crow Point: 22.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 9.8 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 9.9 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 21.0 mi
- Bara-Hack: 12.2 mi
- Gay City State Park: 12.9 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.8 mi
- Windham Spring: 3.1 mi
- Picnic: 18.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Southworth Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whifford Hill | NNW 339° | 291 m | 8.9 mi |
| Westford Hill | N 1° | 290 m | 9.8 mi |
| Parker Mountain | NNW 344° | 275 m | 10.0 mi |
| Sharpe Hill | N 358° | 268 m | 9.8 mi |
| Sprague Hill | NE 45° | 257 m | 9.3 mi |
| Grass Hill | N 8° | 250 m | 10.0 mi |
| Wenberg Hill | N 351° | 245 m | 7.8 mi |
| Pumpkin Hill | NE 37° | 241 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
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 | 37 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Willimantic Windham AP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/972749898
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 4 mi
- Willimantic · 4 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 10 mi
- Tolland · 11 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 15 mi
- Union · 15 mi
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