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Town Open Space (Birdseye Road)

Town Open Space (Birdseye Road) from directly overhead

Town Open Space (Birdseye Road) is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 130 m. Eden Hill stands 240 m to the west, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Maple Avenue), a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.5 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

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Coordinates41.31779, -73.14439

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Gardens
  • SIS Community Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 1.5 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 6.0 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 8.9 mi
Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Beaches
  • Zoar Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Jackson Cove Beach: 6.9 mi
  • Fort Trumbull Beach: 8.8 mi
  • Silver Beach: 9.0 mi
  • Gulf Beach: 9.1 mi
Waterfalls: 40
  • Indian Well Falls: 1.7 mi
  • Cascade: 2.0 mi
  • Cascades: 3.0 mi
  • Farmill River Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Cascade: 6.0 mi
Attractions: 24
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 4.8 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 7.7 mi
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 8.5 mi
  • Millstone: 9.7 mi
  • Millstone: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 20
  • Mother Mary: 4.0 mi
  • Heron: 5.5 mi
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 5.9 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 5.9 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 9.7 mi
Cliffs: 13
Picnic sites: 10
  • Pond View: 4.7 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 4.8 mi
  • Oak Grove: 5.2 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 5.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 7.6 mi
Rest areas: 7
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 5.6 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.6 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 20.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.3 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 21.5 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Town Open Space (Birdseye Road). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Eden HillW 277°240 m8.9 mi
Moose HillNNE 13°231 m5.9 mi
Fivemile HillN 2°223 m7.6 mi
Osborn HillNNW 327°206 m6.6 mi
Mount PisgahN 350°205 m8.6 mi
Great HillNNE 24°202 m3.5 mi
Barn HillNW 311°200 m2.8 mi
Rock RimmonNNE 30°199 m8.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:30
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1615:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272937485868737264524232
Precip in3.93.64.74.74.03.94.34.64.45.04.24.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ansonia 1 NE, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43436222

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