Town Open Space (Great Wight Way)
Town Open Space (Great Wight Way) is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Grassy Hill stands 129 m to the north-northwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Old Black Point Road), a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 9.3 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
How to reach it
- 9.3 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 20.9 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 23.9 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Attawan Beach: 1.1 mi
- Giants Neck Beach: 1.3 mi
- Rocky Neck State Beach: 1.8 mi
- Crescent Beach: 1.9 mi
- McCook Park Beach: 2.1 mi
- McCook Point Park: 2.2 mi
- Hole-in-the-Wall Beach: 2.4 mi
- Four Mile River Boat Launch: 2.4 mi
- Nickerson Park: 2.6 mi
- Dodge Pond Boat Launch: 2.7 mi
- Baptist Hill: 2.3 mi
- Mount Ararat: 2.5 mi
- Amon Hill: 3.5 mi
- Green Hill: 3.5 mi
- Durfey Hill: 3.5 mi
- Niantic Children’s Museum: 2.4 mi
- Old Lyme Historical Society: 6.6 mi
- Lyme Art Association: 6.7 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 6.7 mi
- Nut Museum: 6.8 mi
- East Lyme Veterans Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Bride Brook Historical Plaque: 2.7 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.4 mi
- South Battery: 7.0 mi
- Columbo Statue: 7.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 8.6 mi
- Cascade: 10.7 mi
- Cascade: 10.9 mi
- Cascade: 14.7 mi
- Cascade: 14.7 mi
- The Whale: 7.5 mi
- turtle rock: 11.1 mi
- tri-town marker: 11.4 mi
- Slaves Burying Ground: 11.7 mi
- Parking: 11.8 mi
- Rock Garden: 5.0 mi
- West Garden: 5.0 mi
- East Garden: 5.0 mi
- Cutting Garden: 5.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 5.3 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 7.3 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 7.5 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 9.8 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 10.0 mi
- Sparky: 11.5 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 10.4 mi
- Crow Head: 13.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 14.8 mi
- Ram Head: 15.1 mi
- Hedges Bank: 17.0 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 7.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 18.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 18.2 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 18.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 18.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 11.6 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 13.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 13.6 mi
- Powder House: 6.2 mi
- Skate Hut: 6.5 mi
- Old Spring: 14.6 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Town Open Space (Great Wight Way). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassy Hill | NNW 334° | 129 m | 8.6 mi |
| Morgan Hill | N 4° | 120 m | 8.5 mi |
| Polly Hill | N 4° | 117 m | 8.0 mi |
| Konomoc Hill | NNE 14° | 112 m | 8.3 mi |
| Brown Hill | NW 320° | 112 m | 9.0 mi |
| Beaverdam Hill | N 11° | 105 m | 9.5 mi |
| Pond Hill | NNW 342° | 103 m | 5.7 mi |
| Pigeon Hill | N 351° | 100 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:39 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton NEW London AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/43439406
Day trips start here
- East Lyme · 5 mi
- Old Lyme · 5 mi
- Waterford · 5 mi
- New London · 7 mi
- Old Saybrook · 9 mi
- Essex · 10 mi
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