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Valley Falls Park

Valley Falls Park from directly overhead

Valley Falls Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 129 m. Bald Mountain stands 322 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Boulder Crest Lane Park, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 25 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space

The record

What the record says

Elevation
129 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Vernon
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.81646, -72.44421
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Upper Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
  • Middle Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
  • Indian Notch Park: 1.4 mi
  • Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.5 mi
  • Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 1.5 mi
Museums
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Ronald E. Blake: 4.8 mi
  • Frank Lombardi Memorial: 5.0 mi
  • dog memorial: 7.1 mi
  • Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 7.9 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 9.2 mi
Attractions: 59
  • filled-in well: 1.2 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 6.5 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 8.4 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 8.9 mi
  • Car Wreck: 9.6 mi
Waterfalls: 54
  • Talcott Ravine: 2.3 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Case Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 4.5 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 4.8 mi
Gardens: 54
  • sensory garden: 4.4 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 14
Beaches: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 3
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 9.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 9.3 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 23.8 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 17.8 mi
  • Picnic: 23.2 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 23.6 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 13.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Valley Falls Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald MountainN 8°322 m12.2 mi
Soapstone MountainN 9°315 m10.0 mi
Paulk HillNE 34°294 m5.4 mi
Whifford HillENE 61°291 m10.9 mi
Kendall HillNNE 30°290 m8.3 mi
Grant HillE 89°284 m2.9 mi
Sugar HillNE 35°282 m6.6 mi
Reed HillNE 47°275 m2.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1619:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1515:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485866727063524233
Precip in3.63.04.44.23.74.54.04.34.54.63.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Ghost Pipe41 obs
  • pink lady's slipper40 obs
  • mountain laurel34 obs
  • Great Blue Heron31 obs
  • American Toad31 obs
  • Monarch28 obs
  • sassafras28 obs
  • wild bergamot26 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43436224

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