Town Open Space (Minor Bridge Road)
Town Open Space (Minor Bridge Road) is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 72 m. Painter Hill stands 324 m to the north-northeast, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Chase Park, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 20 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
How to reach it
- 20.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chase Park: 0.1 mi
- Geraldine Stutz Preserve: 0.2 mi
- River's Edge Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Erbacher Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Leander Woods Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Botsford Hill: 1.7 mi
- Hut Hill: 2.0 mi
- Horse Hill: 2.2 mi
- Bronson Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Bulkeley Hill: 2.4 mi
- Hurlburt Park: 2.4 mi
- Lake Lillinonah Boat Launch: 2.9 mi
- Lake Lillinonah Park: 3.1 mi
- Hodge Park: 3.4 mi
- Lake Lillinonah (Pond Brook) Boat Launch: 3.8 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 3.4 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 3.8 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Soldiers’ Monument: 5.9 mi
- In Memory of George Washington: 5.9 mi
- Old Town Hall Museum: 4.6 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 5.4 mi
- Glebe House Museum: 5.7 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 6.6 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 6.7 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 7.3 mi
- Southford Falls: 8.7 mi
- Prydden Brook Falls: 8.9 mi
- Nonnewaug Falls: 10.1 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 10.1 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 5.7 mi
- Judea Garden: 11.6 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 11.6 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 11.6 mi
- Melanie Rieger Victims of Violent Crimes Memorial Garden: 12.7 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 3.3 mi
- New Milford Tank: 6.5 mi
- Indian village: 6.6 mi
- Millstone: 8.7 mi
- Millstone: 8.7 mi
- Jean Widmark: 4.5 mi
- Lesser Evil: 8.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 9.9 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 11.1 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 14.3 mi
- North Beach: 7.8 mi
- South Beach: 8.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 9.0 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 9.6 mi
- Jackson Cove Beach: 9.7 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.9 mi
- Bethel Rock: 6.1 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 7.8 mi
- Kelly Slide: 8.4 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 14.7 mi
- Pond View: 14.3 mi
- Oak Grove: 14.4 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 14.4 mi
- Cedar Grove: 14.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 16.3 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 13.7 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 21.2 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 21.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 21.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 21.3 mi
- Dudley Town: 20.3 mi
- Dicktown: 23.9 mi
- The Silver Spring: 20.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 24.8 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 14.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Town Open Space (Minor Bridge Road). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painter Hill | NNE 13° | 324 m | 6.0 mi |
| Green Pond Mountain | WNW 290° | 323 m | 7.6 mi |
| Great Mountain | WNW 284° | 310 m | 7.3 mi |
| Good Hill | NE 45° | 292 m | 4.0 mi |
| Second Hill | NW 314° | 285 m | 3.8 mi |
| Greenleaf Hill | N 9° | 282 m | 4.3 mi |
| Botsford Hill | NW 307° | 267 m | 1.7 mi |
| Mine Hill | NNW 338° | 267 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/43436542
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 23 mi
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