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Town Open Space (High Meadow Road, Rear)

Town Open Space (High Meadow Road, Rear) from directly overhead

Town Open Space (High Meadow Road, Rear) is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 164 m. Beaver Bog Mountain stands 358 m to the west-northwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Happy Landings Protected Open Space, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

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Coordinates41.43873, -73.37517

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Town Open Space (Old Gray's Bridge Road): 1.3 mi
  • Eriksen Farm Open Space: 2.2 mi
  • Entrance to Sterling Woods Private Footpath: 2.3 mi
  • Brookfield Municipal Center: 2.3 mi
  • Still River Greenway: 2.8 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
  • Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 5.7 mi
  • Butterfly Maze: 5.7 mi
  • Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Garden Of Ideas: 11.1 mi
  • Personal Gardens: 11.7 mi
Beaches: 56
  • South Beach: 5.2 mi
  • North Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Pine Ledge: 8.5 mi
  • Jackson Cove Beach: 9.8 mi
  • Twixt Hills Beach: 10.4 mi
Waterfalls: 41
  • Prydden Brook Falls: 8.9 mi
  • Poverty Hollow Falls: 9.0 mi
  • Saugatuck Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Lower Falls: 9.4 mi
  • Upper Falls: 9.5 mi
Attractions: 21
Artworks: 19
  • Lesser Evil: 3.0 mi
  • greek letter pi: 4.4 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 5.1 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 9.3 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 10.6 mi
Cliffs: 11
Picnic sites: 10
  • Oak Grove: 11.0 mi
  • Pond View: 11.1 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 11.1 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.2 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 16.5 mi
Rest areas: 7
  • Danbury Rest Area: 8.3 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 19.5 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 19.5 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 20.2 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 20.2 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 14.3 mi
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Town Open Space (High Meadow Road, Rear). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Beaver Bog MountainWNW 299°358 m8.4 mi
Titicus MountainW 276°313 m7.0 mi
Great MountainNNW 330°310 m8.0 mi
Pine MountainSW 224°304 m8.4 mi
Cranson PeakSSE 160°303 m5.6 mi
Moses MountainSW 221°296 m7.2 mi
Thomas MountainSW 220°286 m6.6 mi
Second HillN 2°285 m7.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2119:4920:31
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1715:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506069757265534233
Precip in3.73.34.44.24.24.85.04.94.95.04.04.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/43435970

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