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Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area

Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area is a park in Vermont, at a recorded elevation of 308 m. Dorset Mountain stands 1,149 m to the south-southwest, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Mountain, a peak 1.9 miles away. Stone Valley Byway passes 9.5 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
308 m

How to reach it

Coordinates43.37535, -72.98705

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks: 58
Historic sites: 23
Museums: 18
Waterfalls: 11
  • McGinn Falls: 4.2 mi
  • Natural Bridge Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Buttermilk Upper Falls: 13.6 mi
  • Buttermilk Middle Falls: 13.7 mi
  • Buttermilk Lower Falls: 13.7 mi
Cliffs: 11
Artworks: 9
  • Art Gallery: 13.3 mi
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 15.8 mi
  • Rutland Water Fountain: 15.9 mi
  • The Leash Sculpture: 16.0 mi
  • Oculus: 16.6 mi
Attractions: 8
Covered bridges: 6
Gardens: 6
Springs: 1
  • Spruce Peak Shelter Spring: 13.6 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 21.1 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Stoughton Pond Recreation Area: 24.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dorset MountainSSW 204°1,149 m5.0 mi
Dorset Mountain, South PeakSSW 207°1,134 m5.4 mi
Peru PeakSSE 156°1,041 m6.1 mi
Styles PeakSSE 161°1,028 m7.4 mi
Mount AeolusSSW 196°978 m9.7 mi
Woodlawn MountainWSW 245°945 m6.2 mi
Mount TaborS 171°933 m6.5 mi
Pete Parent PeakSE 132°897 m5.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1219:5320:37
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:2215:3316:20

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F172128405361666457463424
Precip in3.93.44.14.04.15.04.54.64.05.23.74.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Peru, 9 mi away.

  • American beech16 obs
  • hobblebush15 obs
  • bluebead lily12 obs
  • Green Frog11 obs
  • American Toad9 obs
  • intermediate wood fern9 obs
  • sensitive fern9 obs
  • Eastern Newt8 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356555359

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