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Tinkerville Brook Preserve

Tinkerville Brook Preserve from directly overhead

Tinkerville Brook Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 253 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the north, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Balazs Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 12 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
253 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.92634, -72.21259
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Morey Pond Boat Launch: 2.9 mi
  • River Road Park: 4.3 mi
  • Heritage Park: 4.3 mi
  • Haymarket Square: 5.1 mi
  • Staffordville Recreation Area: 5.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 4.3 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 4.7 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 4.9 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 5.0 mi
  • Old root cellar: 8.2 mi
Museums: 58
Attractions: 52
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 4.2 mi
  • Frog Rock: 9.2 mi
  • Bara-Hack Abandoned Village: 10.8 mi
  • Wolf Rock: 11.5 mi
  • Path Continues: 11.7 mi
Artworks: 33
Gardens: 29
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Schwenk Family Garden: 8.3 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 8.3 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 8.4 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 9.1 mi
Waterfalls: 21
  • Codfish Falls: 7.1 mi
  • Cascade: 8.0 mi
  • Cascades: 8.7 mi
  • Cascades: 8.8 mi
  • Diana's Pool Falls: 11.0 mi
Beaches: 10
Cliffs: 5
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 9.2 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.0 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.2 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 4.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 4.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 13.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Tinkerville Brook Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillN 2°396 m6.3 mi
Bald HillNNE 14°371 m3.4 mi
Stickney HillNNE 18°371 m4.9 mi
Snow HillN 4°362 m1.9 mi
Lead Mine HillNNE 30°361 m2.8 mi
Hedgehog HillNNW 343°354 m3.6 mi
Tupper HillNNW 337°352 m7.9 mi
Bear HillNNW 340°347 m8.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2419:01
June solstice05:1419:4620:28
September equinox06:3718:1118:48
December solstice07:1415:3616:21

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, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • rue anemone12 obs
  • mountain laurel9 obs
  • partridgeberry6 obs
  • red trillium5 obs
  • downy rattlesnake plantain5 obs
  • green false hellebore5 obs
  • wood anemone5 obs
  • hay-scented fern4 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/43438966

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