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Wales Preserve

Wales Preserve from directly overhead

Wales Preserve is a nature reserve in New Hampshire, at a modelled elevation of 295 m. Mount Monadnock stands 965 m to the west-northwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Milt Street Tract, a nature reserve 1.0 miles away. General John Stark Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
The Nature Conservancy
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.81706, -71.97608

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Howard Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
  • Humiston Park: 2.2 mi
  • Town Common: 2.4 mi
  • Centennial Park: 3.9 mi
  • Mountain Brook Reservoir Conservation Easement: 3.9 mi
Peaks
Artworks
  • Cultural Cocoon: 4.4 mi
  • Armillary: 7.5 mi
  • Clyde II: 10.1 mi
  • Schoolboy of 1850: 12.9 mi
  • South Royalston Chicken: 15.6 mi
Historic sites
Museums: 33
  • Mariposa Museum: 4.4 mi
  • Aquarius No. 1 Fire Museum: 4.5 mi
  • Rindge Historcal Museum: 4.9 mi
  • Winchendon Historical Society: 10.1 mi
  • Troy Historical Society: 10.5 mi
Beaches: 22
  • Contoocook Lake Public Beach: 2.1 mi
  • Jowder's Cove Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 4.0 mi
  • Ranger Beach: 5.3 mi
  • Ripple Beach Cove: 9.3 mi
Attractions: 21
Waterfalls: 18
  • Bonner Falls: 8.5 mi
  • Falls Brook Falls: 13.2 mi
  • Brennan Falls: 14.0 mi
  • Trap Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Purgatory Lower Falls: 14.3 mi
Cliffs: 9
  • Black Precipice: 7.4 mi
  • Billings Fold: 7.4 mi
  • Troy Cliffs: 13.2 mi
  • Jacob Hill: 14.3 mi
  • Mine Ledge: 22.6 mi
Gardens: 8
  • Noahs Ark: 6.4 mi
  • John Pierce Garden: 7.6 mi
  • St. Paul's Community Garden: 16.7 mi
  • Phillipston Community Garden: 17.7 mi
  • Sundial Community Garden: 18.1 mi
Springs: 3
  • Falcon Spring: 6.5 mi
  • The Ashburnham Spring: 12.6 mi
  • River Road Spring: 19.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 24.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Wales Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount MonadnockWNW 294°965 m7.4 mi
Bald RockWNW 291°790 m7.1 mi
Monte RosaWNW 291°749 m7.5 mi
North Pack Monadnock MountainNE 50°694 m7.3 mi
Pack Monadnock MountainENE 58°692 m5.8 mi
Holt PeakE 81°623 m4.7 mi
Burton PeakE 92°605 m4.3 mi
Temple MountainENE 70°596 m4.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2319:00
June solstice05:1019:4820:31
September equinox06:3618:1018:47
December solstice07:1615:3116:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445665706860493828
Precip in3.03.03.93.83.64.54.03.94.34.83.54.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jaffrey Muni AP Silver RCH, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/47797143

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