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Dog Pond is a great lake in an area with lots of outdoors fun all around. You'll wish for more hours in a day to enjoy all the fun things at Dog Pond. If you're a golfer then a fine close by course is Stonybrook Golf Course, and going for a hike along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail will let you absorb the natural beauty of this neighborhood. If you want a brilliant time in the great outdoors, just come on down to Dog Pond. Woodbury is a wonderful local ski
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| | area, and Dog Pond is near Mohawk Mountain State Park which is a scenic site. This lake is so wonderful. Swamps like Balsam Fir Swamp are fun to stop at; Tollgate Hill Inn is a good place to get some rest.
Lakes are such peaceful spots, why not take a look at Tyler Lake in the neighborhood of Dog Pond, and from Dog Pond you obtain a brilliant vista of Brush Hill. This lake is so wonderful. A great nearby hotel is Litchfield Inn; get yourself into a kayak and | |
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hit Shepaug River. A glorious place to camp here at Dog Pond is Valley In The Pines Campground, and at Woodridge Lake Dam in the neighborhood of Dog Pond there are some attention-grabbing things to see.
High temperatures at Dog
Pond through the months of summer are in the 80's with nighttime lows in the 50's. Highs through the winter are regularly in the 30's with temperatures at Dog Pond dipping down into the 10's during winter nights. Dog Pond is perfect
enough to spend more than a day at, Hemlock Hill Camp Resort and Co-operative is a perfect local campground; why not take a little visit to West Side Pond Brook since you're here. The skiing at Mohawk Mountain is great, and this is
a popular spot for folks from Torrington.
A day at Litchfield Town Beach in the neighborhood of Dog Pond is time well spent. Dog Pond gets a large amount of water; the month with most of the rain is August, and the driest of the
months is February. Have a tremendous hiking adventure along the Mattatuck Trail, and soar down the rapids of Bantam River in a kayak.
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Coordinates:
Latitude: 41.81417
Longitude: -73.23972
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| These outdoors activities are available near Dog Pond. |
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| | Ski Areas Near Dog Pond:
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Woodbury, Connecticut, 13 miles away
300 vertical feet |
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Ski Sundown, Connecticut, 16 miles away
625 vertical feet |
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Bantam River, Litchfield CountyCounty, 6 miles away
Class I-II - 5.4 miles long (Stoddard Road to Shepaug River) |
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Shepaug River, Litchfield CountyCounty, 8 miles away
Class II-III - 6.5 miles long (Route 341 to Route 67) |
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Housatonic River, Litchfield CountyCounty, 10 miles away
Class II-III - 22.5 miles long (Falls Village Hydro to Kent) |
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6 miles away
