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Sunset Hill Preserve

Sunset Hill Preserve from directly overhead

Sunset Hill Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 172 m. Hedgehog Hill stands 354 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Ellington Congregational Church Open Space, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 23 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Northern Connecticut Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.93332, -72.44165

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Arbor Park: 2.4 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 3.2 mi
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 3.2 mi
  • North Cemetery: 3.4 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 3.5 mi
Gardens
  • sensory garden: 3.7 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 11.3 mi
  • Forest Park Aquatic Gardens: 12.0 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 12.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions: 55
  • filled-in well: 6.9 mi
  • Goat Rock: 8.8 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 11.6 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 11.7 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 12.9 mi
Waterfalls: 29
  • Hockanum Falls: 4.5 mi
  • Cascade: 5.4 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 7.9 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Cascades: 11.7 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 18.9 mi
  • Rd: 21.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 21.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 21.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 11.5 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 16.1 mi
  • Picnic: 19.3 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 8.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Sunset Hill Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hedgehog HillENE 74°354 m11.1 mi
Tupper HillNE 52°352 m11.1 mi
Bear HillNE 52°347 m11.4 mi
Moss HillNE 53°341 m11.8 mi
Peck HillNE 40°336 m10.9 mi
Chestnut HillNE 43°332 m6.5 mi
Moon MountainNNE 23°330 m10.5 mi
Rattlesnake HillNNE 14°323 m7.1 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 solstice07:1515:3716:22

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, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/528909783

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