Yelping Hill

Yelping Hill is a hamlet in Town of Cornwall, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut. Yelping Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Cornwall Hollow, as well as near North Cornwall.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Housatonic State Forest and Cream Hill Shelter.

Housatonic State Forest

Nature reserve

Photo: Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Housatonic State Forest is a Connecticut state forest occupying 11,284 acres in the towns of Sharon, Canaan, Cornwall, North Canaan, Salisbury and Norfolk.

The Cream Hill Shelter is a rustic log shelter in Housatonic State Forest in Cornwall, Connecticut. Built in 1988, it replaced what was at the time one of three surviving log shelters constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut.

North Cornwall Meeting House

Church

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North Cornwall Meeting House is a church, which is situated 2½ miles south of Yelping Hill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canaan and Cornwall.

Canaan

Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Canaan is in the Litchfield Hills, otherwise known as the Connecticut Berkshires, in northern Litchfield County.

Cornwall

Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cornwall is a town in Connecticut. It is comprised of many small parts from yesteryear, but today is generally divided into three parts, Cornwall Bridge, West Cornwall, and Cornwall Village.

Falls Village

Village

Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Falls Village is a village and census-designated place in the town of Canaan in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, Falls Village had a population of 383. Falls Village is situated 5 miles northwest of Yelping Hill.

Yelping Hill

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Town of Cornwall, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.90482° or 41° 54′ 17″ north

Longitude

-73.29873° or 73° 17′ 55″ west

Elevation

1,394 feet (425 metres)

Open location code

87H8WP32+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 158918870

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4846203

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