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Wendell Road Open Space

Wendell Road Open Space from directly overhead

Wendell Road Open Space is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 208 m. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the east-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Pine Street Open Space, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 20 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Ellington
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.94015, -72.38016

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 0.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 2.8 mi
  • North Cemetery: 3.0 mi
  • Olympic Circle: 3.7 mi
Peaks
Museums
Gardens: 60
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.1 mi
  • sensory garden: 5.2 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 10.2 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 11.0 mi
  • Horticulture Garden: 11.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Scripture Bridge Abutments: 5.2 mi
  • Construction Workers Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • Ronald E. Blake: 5.5 mi
  • Willington Veteran's Memorial: 8.0 mi
  • Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 12.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 54
  • filled-in well: 8.2 mi
  • Goat Rock: 8.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 12.8 mi
  • Path Continues: 12.9 mi
  • Bigelow Brook Farm: 12.9 mi
Waterfalls: 29
  • Cascade: 2.9 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 9.8 mi
  • Cascades: 10.2 mi
  • Cascades: 10.2 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 9
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 17.4 mi
  • Rd: 22.5 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 22.5 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 22.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 13.8 mi
  • Picnic: 16.2 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 17.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 5.4 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Wendell Road Open Space. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Burley HillENE 59°396 m10.3 mi
Bald HillENE 76°371 m9.7 mi
Stickney HillENE 70°371 m10.8 mi
Snow HillE 84°362 m8.8 mi
Lead Mine HillE 81°361 m10.1 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 72°354 m8.0 mi
Tupper HillNE 41°352 m8.4 mi
Bear HillNE 42°347 m8.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1519:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
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, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1349366543

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