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Beckley Furnace Industrial Park

Beckley Furnace Industrial Park from directly overhead

Beckley Furnace Industrial Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 221 m. Bradford Mountain stands 584 m to the south, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Beckley Furnace, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 19 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.01099, -73.29255

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Edith Scoville Memorial Sanctuary: 1.8 mi
  • Lawrence Field: 2.0 mi
  • Norfolk Historic District: 5.0 mi
  • Wood Creek Pond Boat Launch: 5.1 mi
  • East Twin Lake Water Access: 5.2 mi
Waterfalls: 52
Historic sites: 42
Museums: 40
Attractions: 26
Artworks: 22
Cliffs: 16
  • The Beech: 12.2 mi
  • Space Invaders: 12.2 mi
  • Squirrel Wall: 12.3 mi
  • Cloud Buttress: 12.3 mi
  • Acorn Face: 12.3 mi
Gardens: 10
Beaches: 7
Springs: 4
  • Cannavo Spring: 12.9 mi
  • Big Spring: 15.5 mi
  • Hermit spring: 15.7 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 16.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 9.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.0 miles of Beckley Furnace Industrial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bradford MountainS 182°584 m1.5 mi
Bald MountainENE 74°539 m4.1 mi
Lion's HeadW 268°531 m7.9 mi
Stone Man MountainS 172°528 m3.8 mi
Wangum Lake HillSSE 147°521 m3.3 mi
East Bald MountainENE 74°519 m5.0 mi
Higley HillNE 53°518 m7.5 mi
Haystack MountainE 96°510 m4.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2919:05
June solstice05:1819:5120:33
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1915:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445564696760483828
Precip in4.03.34.23.94.15.04.84.74.95.14.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk 2 SW, 5 mi away.

  • red trillium28 obs
  • Carolina Springbeauty6 obs
  • bloodroot5 obs
  • rock polypody5 obs
  • purple-flowered raspberry5 obs
  • Two-leaved Toothwort5 obs
  • Spotted Salamander4 obs
  • box elder4 obs

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

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 78002847OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/469261577

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