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     When you're here at Brooks Pond it's always fun to go to Sleeping Giant State Park, and what would winter be without some skiing at Powder Ridge. Brooks Pond is a fine place to visit for more than one day, Gentile's Camp Ground is a fine place to camp nearby, and a great location for whitewater paddling is Farmington River - Collinsville. If you need a place to stay Super 8 Motel - Waterbury is a wonderful choice; the slopes of Mount Southington are so inviting  
   noone can resist. Mixville Brook is one of the streams close by that might be worth visiting, and the Quinnipiac Trail offers hiking at its best.
This lake is so wonderful. Near Brooks Pond you stumble on a golf course called Highland Golf Course, and a lake nearby is Mixville Pond. Brooks Pond truly is in the middle of a wonderful outdoors paradise. You're sure to bump into some great people from New Haven-Milford here; from Brooks Pond you acquire a
 
               fine sight of Bluff Head.
The high level of precipitation makes Brooks Pond a pretty wet place; the month with most of the rain is August, and February is the month with the least moisture. This lake is so wonderful. Dry warm beds await you at Holiday Inn WATERBURY; there's great hiking along the Tunxis Trail. You'll need more than a day to look at everything Brooks Pond has to offer, you can camp at Black Rock State Park, and don't leave Brooks Pond without first going for a hike along the Mattatuck Trail.
You just can't envision the amount of outdoors fun stuff the area near Brooks Pond has to offer. Mixville Pond Dam is worth stopping at while you're here, and if you get bored of Brooks Pond you could also explore close by West Brook Reservoir. Throughout the summer here at Brooks Pond, high temperatures generally reach the 80's while night lows are usually in the 50's. High temperatures during the winter are normally in the 30's, and winter nights come with lows in the 10's to Brooks Pond.

 
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2 miles away
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3 miles away
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Current weather conditions at Brooks Pond, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Local climate location: WIGWAM RESERVOIR 10 miles away


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  Coordinates:
Latitude: 41.52
Longitude: -72.95472

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These outdoors activities are available near Brooks Pond.
 Hotels Near Brooks Pond:
Holiday Inn WATERBURY, Waterbury, 2 miles away
Super 8 Motel - Waterbury, Waterbury, 3 miles away
Comfort Suites Southington, Southington, 4 miles away
Red Carpet Inn and Suites - Cheshire, Cheshire, 4 miles away
Americas Best Value Inn and Suites/Wolcott, Wolcott, 5 miles away
 Camp Grounds Near Brooks Pond:
Gentile's Camp Ground, Plymouth, 10 miles away
Black Rock State Park, Litchfield, 12 miles away
Branchbrook Campground, Thomaston, 12 miles away
National Computer Camps, Orange, 15 miles away
 Ski Areas Near Brooks Pond:
Mount Southington, Connecticut, 4 miles away
      425 vertical feet
Powder Ridge, Connecticut, 17 miles away
      500 vertical feet
Ski Sundown, Connecticut, 18 miles away
      625 vertical feet
 Whitewater Near Brooks Pond:
Farmington River - Collinsville, Hartford CountyCounty, 13 miles away
      Class II - 3.5 miles long (Collinsville to Unionville)
 National Parks Near Brooks Pond:
Fire Island National Seashore, Patchogue - NY, 38 miles away
 Trails Near Brooks Pond:
Mattatuck Trail, New Haven County, 5 miles away
Tunxis Trail, Hartford County, 6 miles away
Quinnipiac Trail, New Haven County, 6 miles away
 Golf Courses Near Brooks Pond:
Highland Golf Course, Prospect, 2 miles away
Sleeping Giant Golf Course, Hamden, 5 miles away
 Lakes Near Brooks Pond:
West Brook Reservoir, New Haven CountyCounty, 1 miles away
Mixville Pond, New Haven CountyCounty, 1 miles away

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