Codfish Falls
Codfish Falls is a waterfall in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 109 m. Lead Mine Hill stands 361 m to the north-northeast, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is UConn Forest Fenton Tract, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 14 miles off.
The story
Codfish Falls is a series of close-knit plunges and cascades, ending in a fan, that is fed by Fishers Brook, in Storrs, Connecticut (a village in the town of Mansfield). It can be accessed by a trail from a road of the same name. The falls has carved out a steep-sided gorge, averaging twenty feet deep, which is in sharp contrast to the surrounding land. It feeds into the nearby Fenton River.
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Wikidata Q27927864, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 13.8 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 10.3 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- UConn Forest Fenton Tract: 0.5 mi
- Gurleyville Road Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Torrey Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Lorraine Drive Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Jerauld A. Manter Tract: 1.0 mi
- Horsebarn Hill: 1.2 mi
- Knowlton Hill: 1.6 mi
- Wormwood Hill: 1.7 mi
- Ball Hill: 3.2 mi
- Tower Hill: 4.0 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 1.5 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 1.6 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 1.7 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 2.0 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 2.5 mi
- Mansfield Town Square: 1.6 mi
- The Thomas and Bette Wolff Family Park: 1.9 mi
- Spring Hill Fields: 3.0 mi
- Mount Hope Park: 3.3 mi
- Ashford Memorial Park: 3.7 mi
- Old root cellar: 1.1 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 2.2 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 2.8 mi
- Willington Veteran's Memorial: 3.4 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 5.6 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 1.6 mi
- U’s and C’s: 1.6 mi
- Copper Tower: 1.6 mi
- Crisscross XVI: 1.7 mi
- Slip Edge Bis: 1.7 mi
- Wolf Rock: 4.5 mi
- Bigelow Brook Farm: 8.1 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 8.7 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 9.5 mi
- Frog Rock: 9.6 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 1.6 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 1.8 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 1.8 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 7.0 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 5.9 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 11.5 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 12.9 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 13.4 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 13.5 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 4.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 10.6 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 12.0 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 17.1 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 19.7 mi
- Coney Rock: 2.4 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 2.4 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 4.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 11.6 mi
- Crow Point: 21.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 5.9 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.0 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 24.9 mi
- Bara-Hack: 11.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 12.9 mi
- Picnic: 15.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.9 mi
- Windham Spring: 6.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Codfish Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Mine Hill | NNE 13° | 361 m | 9.8 mi |
| Sky Hill | N 11° | 331 m | 8.9 mi |
| Paulk Hill | WNW 296° | 294 m | 9.1 mi |
| Whifford Hill | NNW 341° | 291 m | 4.9 mi |
| Westford Hill | NNE 15° | 290 m | 6.4 mi |
| Kendall Hill | NW 314° | 290 m | 9.7 mi |
| Grant Hill | W 267° | 284 m | 8.3 mi |
| Sugar Hill | WNW 303° | 282 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 2 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 47.0 | 44.6 | 67.0 | 63.3 | 40.6 | 23.7 | 24.5 | 14.7 | 18.4 | 17.9 | 25.4 | 48.0 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Fenton River AT Mansfield, CT, 1 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/5996768147
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 2 mi
- Willimantic · 7 mi
- Tolland · 8 mi
- Union · 12 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 14 mi
- Woodstock · 15 mi
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