Webb Mountain Park | |
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Location | Monroe, Connecticut, United States |
Coordinates | 41°22′30″N 73°09′48″W / 41.3749°N 73.1632°W |
Area | 135 acres (55 ha) |
Authorized | 1974 |
Governing body | Monroe, CT |
Website | [1] |
Webb Mountain Park is a 135-acre municipal park in Monroe, Connecticut, offering hiking trails, rock climbing, nature study, and campsites. The park backs up onto land where a historic castle building and residences for nuns are located. Webb Mountain Discovery Zone nature center with its own 170 acre park is adjacent. The park has diverse flora including numerous kinds of trees, shrubs, and ferns that not only add to the aesthetic value of the place but provide an ideal setting for some amateur as well as scientific study of the local plants. It is adjacent to the town-owned Webb Mountain Discovery Zone.