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Sun Valley Beach Club

Sun Valley Beach Club from directly overhead

Sun Valley Beach Club is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 168 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the east-northeast, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Chestnut Hill Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 18 miles off.

Private, Open To Public With Fee

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Sun Valley Camping Cooperative
Getting there

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Coordinates41.97852, -72.36286

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Olympic Park: 2.8 mi
  • Olympic Circle: 2.8 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 2.9 mi
  • West Main Street Open Space: 2.9 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 3.4 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 6.3 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 6.8 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 8.2 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 9.4 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 10.5 mi
Artworks
Gardens: 58
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 7.7 mi
  • sensory garden: 7.9 mi
  • Wilbraham Community Garden: 9.5 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 12.1 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 12.9 mi
Attractions: 54
  • Goat Rock: 6.7 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.2 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.2 mi
  • filled-in well: 10.9 mi
  • SSG 102: 12.4 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Cascade: 0.6 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Cascades: 12.2 mi
  • Cascades: 12.3 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 12.5 mi
Beaches: 10
Cliffs: 7
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Rd: 21.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 21.2 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 21.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 13.5 mi
  • Picnic: 14.6 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 16.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 6.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Sun Valley Beach Club. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillENE 71°396 m8.4 mi
Mount PisgahNE 43°379 m9.4 mi
Bald HillE 92°371 m8.5 mi
Stickney HillE 84°371 m9.3 mi
Snow HillESE 102°362 m8.0 mi
Lead Mine HillE 97°361 m9.2 mi
Mount HitchcockNE 36°356 m9.1 mi
Hedgehog HillE 91°354 m6.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:49
December solstice07:1515:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633455564706862504030
Precip in3.83.34.34.33.84.64.14.44.34.94.04.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Staffordville, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43442385

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