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Mill Brook State Park

Mill Brook State Park from directly overhead

Mill Brook State Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 48 m. Pine Cone stands 323 m to the northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Barber Pond State Wildlife Area, a park 0.9 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 24 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
48 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.86732, -72.70620
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Farm Tool: 1.8 mi
  • VW: 1.9 mi
  • 1964 Flood Prevention Project: 2.2 mi
  • Tim Coyne Memorial: 2.2 mi
  • Farmington River Park Dedication 1995: 2.6 mi
Peaks
Artworks
  • Cow: 2.2 mi
  • Cow Mermaid Statue: 3.4 mi
  • Tumble Brook Sculpture: 4.7 mi
  • Bike Sculpture: 5.6 mi
  • Painted Cow: 5.9 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Perennial Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Herb Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Shade Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Primary Garden: 6.5 mi
Waterfalls: 57
Attractions: 55
Cliffs: 26
  • Hart Meadow: 7.6 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 7.6 mi
  • Garden Wall: 7.7 mi
  • Superstructure: 8.5 mi
  • Solar Panel: 8.5 mi
Beaches: 11
Springs: 7
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Big Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Hermit spring: 17.7 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 19.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 22.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 21.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 21.1 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 21.7 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 22.8 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 13.0 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 19.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Mill Brook State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine ConeNW 304°323 m10.2 mi
West LedgeWNW 284°305 m8.9 mi
Talcott MountainSW 231°276 m6.1 mi
East HillW 264°261 m9.8 mi
Rattlesnake HillW 261°257 m10.9 mi
Onion MountainW 267°253 m8.9 mi
Ely MoundSW 224°246 m7.2 mi
Weed HillWNW 303°241 m9.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F273038506069747365534233
Precip in3.33.13.83.93.84.34.24.24.44.53.54.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Painted Turtle9 obs
  • Canada Goose8 obs
  • Gray Treefrog7 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel6 obs
  • common mugwort6 obs
  • striped wintergreen6 obs
  • Ghost Pipe5 obs
  • Common Raccoon4 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 node/359288349

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