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Spice Bush Swamp

Spice Bush Swamp from directly overhead

Spice Bush Swamp is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 53 m. Scranton Mountain stands 300 m to the west, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Mooney's Woods, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
53 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of West Hartford
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.75821, -72.76517
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Fernridge Park: 0.8 mi
  • Buena Vista Recreational Complex: 0.9 mi
  • West Hartford Veterans Memorial Park: 1.2 mi
  • Norfeldt Park: 1.5 mi
  • Westmoor Park: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Asa Spaulding Porter: 1.2 mi
  • West Hartford Veterans Memorial: 1.2 mi
  • Noah Webster Statue: 1.2 mi
  • Lamuel Haynes Memorial: 1.2 mi
  • Old Grist Mill Site: 1.5 mi
Museums
Attractions
Waterfalls
  • Mill Pond Falls: 4.8 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 8.7 mi
  • Seven Steps Falls: 9.5 mi
  • Fetzer Falls: 9.5 mi
  • Whigville Falls: 9.9 mi
Gardens: 57
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 1.7 mi
  • 5-Sense Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Jessie's Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Primary Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Shade Garden: 1.7 mi
Artworks: 47
Cliffs: 19
  • South Wall: 1.9 mi
  • Solar Panel: 1.9 mi
  • Superstructure: 1.9 mi
  • Garden Wall: 2.4 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 2.4 mi
Beaches: 11
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 16.6 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Big Spring: 18.2 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 19.4 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 14.2 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 14.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 16.7 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.1 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Spice Bush Swamp. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Scranton MountainW 271°300 m10.4 mi
Barnes HillWNW 283°283 m10.0 mi
Talcott MountainNNW 335°276 m4.1 mi
Taine MountainW 273°268 m7.8 mi
Wildcat MountainW 267°262 m8.9 mi
East HillNW 314°261 m9.3 mi
Rattlesnake HillNW 307°257 m9.7 mi
Onion MountainNW 320°253 m9.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43436278

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