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Newgate State Wildlife Area

Newgate State Wildlife Area from directly overhead

Newgate State Wildlife Area is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 93 m. Pine Mountain stands 421 m to the west, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Ian Clark Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
93 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.96065, -72.76148

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Museums
Peaks
Parks
  • Granbrook Park: 1.9 mi
  • Sunrise Park: 3.0 mi
  • Tariffville Park: 3.2 mi
  • Tariffville Green: 3.5 mi
  • Rail Trail: 3.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Zygmunt Sacharko stone: 2.2 mi
  • Dorothy Auerbach Schiro: 2.8 mi
  • Daniel Hill Guilmartin: 4.0 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.0 mi
  • Connecticut Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 4.0 mi
Artworks: 53
  • Bike Sculpture: 8.1 mi
  • Cow: 9.0 mi
  • Cow Mermaid Statue: 10.3 mi
  • Freedom Eagle: 10.3 mi
  • Tumble Brook Sculpture: 10.4 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Southwick Community Garden: 4.7 mi
  • Back Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Front Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Front Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 5.2 mi
Attractions: 48
  • Smaug's Lair sign: 2.8 mi
  • Manure Spreader: 3.6 mi
  • A-3B "Skywarrior": 3.6 mi
  • C-7A "Caribou": 3.6 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 3.7 mi
Waterfalls: 44
Cliffs: 26
  • Hart Meadow: 12.4 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 12.5 mi
  • Garden Wall: 12.6 mi
  • Queen Mary Ledge: 13.2 mi
  • Superstructure: 13.5 mi
Beaches: 8
Springs: 7
  • Big Spring: 12.4 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Hermit spring: 16.1 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 16.5 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 17.0 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 9.5 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 15.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 24.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 24.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Newgate State Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine MountainW 275°421 m8.6 mi
Winchell MountainNW 313°403 m9.8 mi
Morrison HillWNW 294°370 m10.5 mi
Washington HillW 267°359 m7.9 mi
Ratlum MountainWSW 240°358 m9.9 mi
South MountainNW 316°357 m8.1 mi
Bad Luck MountainNNW 326°347 m9.8 mi
Sodom MountainNNW 331°326 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:31
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

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, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • eastern white pine30 obs
  • striped wintergreen27 obs
  • partridgeberry26 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage21 obs
  • eastern hemlock19 obs
  • Christmas fern17 obs
  • garlic mustard17 obs
  • Canada mayflower16 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/359289919

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