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State Highway Open Space

State Highway Open Space from directly overhead

State Highway Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Springbrook Village Pad, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
State of Connecticut
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.71916, -72.60486
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Welles Park: 0.4 mi
  • Richard H. Ross Field: 0.9 mi
  • Glastonbury Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • Hubbard Green Park: 1.2 mi
  • Goodwin Park: 1.3 mi
Museums
Peaks
Attractions
  • Constitution Oak: 2.5 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 4.2 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 4.9 mi
  • Keney Tower: 5.2 mi
  • Geographic Center of Hartford: 5.6 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Waterfalls
  • Cascades: 4.0 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Case Falls: 6.6 mi
Gardens: 55
Cliffs: 20
  • Crow Point: 1.1 mi
  • Flag Rock: 9.5 mi
  • South Wall: 10.6 mi
  • Solar Panel: 10.6 mi
  • Superstructure: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.5 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 18.5 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 19.9 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 2
  • Windham Spring: 20.8 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 24.8 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 23.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of State Highway Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckE 96°273 m6.8 mi
John Tom HillE 96°272 m6.9 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSE 152°265 m7.0 mi
Box HillNE 53°252 m9.7 mi
Clark HillSSE 155°241 m9.5 mi
Lookout MountainENE 68°237 m6.6 mi
Kongscut MountainESE 107°234 m5.5 mi
Birch MountainENE 72°233 m6.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

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, 3 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/947880397

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