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Twelve Mile Brook Conservation Area

Twelve Mile Brook Conservation Area from directly overhead

Twelve Mile Brook Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 124 m. Mount Pisgah stands 379 m to the east-southeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Mill Pond Conservation Area, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 21 miles off.

What the record says

Built
1967

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates42.14040, -72.39711

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Mount Marcy: 0.9 mi
  • Mount Chapin: 1.4 mi
  • Wigwam Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Bald Peak: 2.5 mi
  • New View: 2.5 mi
Parks
  • Knox Trail Park: 2.0 mi
  • Crane Park: 2.1 mi
  • Spectacle Pond: 2.1 mi
  • Spectacle Pond: 2.2 mi
  • Gazebo Park: 2.2 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • SSG 102: 3.7 mi
  • Goat Rock: 5.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.6 mi
  • Path Continues: 8.7 mi
  • Timber Frame: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 47
Gardens: 46
Beaches: 15
Waterfalls: 6
  • Cascade: 11.6 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 19.0 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 22.4 mi
  • Cascades: 23.4 mi
  • Cascades: 23.5 mi
Cliffs: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Picnic sites: 3
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 9.6 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 13.0 mi
  • Picnic: 18.2 mi
Springs: 3
  • Rd: 13.6 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 13.8 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 13.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 17.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 17.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Twelve Mile Brook Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount PisgahESE 118°379 m9.2 mi
Steerage RockE 89°367 m8.9 mi
Mount HitchcockESE 118°356 m8.0 mi
Tupper HillSE 139°352 m9.8 mi
Bear HillSE 137°347 m9.9 mi
Peck HillSE 141°336 m7.7 mi
Tower HillE 84°336 m10.1 mi
Chestnut HillSSE 167°332 m9.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1419:4720:30
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1615:3616:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242534455766716962504030
Precip in3.53.13.73.73.64.24.24.84.54.83.54.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belchertown, 10 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29914978

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