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Trolley Crossing Open Space

Trolley Crossing Open Space from directly overhead

Trolley Crossing Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 151 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the east-northeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Abby Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 17 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Stafford
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.96121, -72.33342

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Olympic Circle: 1.0 mi
  • Olympic Park: 1.0 mi
  • West Main Street Open Space: 1.1 mi
  • Haymarket Square: 1.5 mi
  • Heritage Park: 2.5 mi
Museums
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 4.5 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 5.1 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 7.2 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 7.5 mi
  • Old Firetower Foundations: 10.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 56
  • Goat Rock: 8.6 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.4 mi
  • Path Continues: 10.4 mi
  • filled-in well: 10.6 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 10.8 mi
Gardens: 45
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 6.8 mi
  • sensory garden: 7.9 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 10.4 mi
  • Wilbraham Community Garden: 11.0 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 11.2 mi
Waterfalls: 22
  • Cascade: 1.4 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Cascades: 10.6 mi
  • Cascades: 10.7 mi
  • Codfish Falls: 10.9 mi
Beaches: 10
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 17.6 mi
  • Rd: 23.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 23.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 23.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic: 13.4 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 15.4 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 17.9 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 5.0 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Trolley Crossing Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillENE 59°396 m7.5 mi
Mount PisgahNNE 31°379 m9.4 mi
Bald HillE 83°371 m7.1 mi
Stickney HillENE 74°371 m8.0 mi
Snow HillE 94°362 m6.4 mi
Lead Mine HillE 90°361 m7.6 mi
Mount HitchcockNNE 24°356 m9.4 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 78°354 m5.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1515:3716:22

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, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1344559756

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