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Wraight Bird Field Conservation Area

Wraight Bird Field Conservation Area from directly overhead

Wraight Bird Field Conservation Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 200 m. Bald Hill stands 371 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Shenipsit Woods Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Northern Connecticut Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.93889, -72.41900

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Crystal Lake State Boat Launch (Ellington): 2.0 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
  • North Cemetery: 3.0 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 3.1 mi
  • Arbor Park: 3.4 mi
Museums
Gardens: 60
  • sensory garden: 4.2 mi
  • Tolland Youth Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 11.5 mi
  • Wilbraham Community Garden: 12.2 mi
  • School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 12.2 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions: 54
  • filled-in well: 7.4 mi
  • Goat Rock: 8.5 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 12.3 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 12.8 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 14.1 mi
Waterfalls: 28
  • Cascade: 4.3 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 5.1 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 8.7 mi
  • Cascades: 11.2 mi
  • Cascades: 11.3 mi
Cliffs: 12
Beaches: 9
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 18.4 mi
  • Rd: 21.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 21.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 21.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 12.2 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 16.4 mi
  • Picnic: 18.1 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.0 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 7.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Wraight Bird Field Conservation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald HillENE 78°371 m11.7 mi
Snow HillE 84°362 m10.8 mi
Hedgehog HillENE 75°354 m9.9 mi
Tupper HillNE 49°352 m9.9 mi
Bear HillNE 50°347 m10.3 mi
Moss HillNE 51°341 m10.7 mi
Peck HillNE 37°336 m9.9 mi
Chestnut HillNE 37°332 m5.4 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, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1344570143

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