Velvet Rocks Shelter
Velvet Rocks Shelter is a shelter in Grafton, New Hampshire. Velvet Rocks Shelter is situated nearby to the nature reserve Greensboro Ridge Natural Area, as well as near Appalachian National Scenic Trail.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hood Museum of Art and Hopkins Center for the Arts.
Hood Museum of Art
Museum
The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, at about 65,000 objects, of any college or university museum in the United States. Hood Museum of Art is situated 1¼ miles west of Velvet Rocks Shelter.
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Arts center
Photo: Kane5187, Public domain.
Hopkins Center for the Arts is a multi-venue performing arts center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The center, which was designed by Wallace Harrison and foreshadows his later design of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is the college's cultural hub. Hopkins Center for the Arts is situated 1¼ miles west of Velvet Rocks Shelter.
Burnham Field
Pitch
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Burnham Field is situated 4,100 feet west of Velvet Rocks Shelter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hanover and Etna.
Hanover
Photo: Kane5187, Public domain.
Hanover is a college town in west central New Hampshire across the Connecticut River from Norwich, Vermont. It is home to Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, whose historic campus dominates the center of the town.
Etna
Hamlet
Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY 3.0.
Etna, originally named "Mill Village", is a small community within the town of Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It is located in southwestern Grafton County, approximately 3 miles east of Hanover's downtown and 2.5 miles south of the village of Hanover Center, on Mink Brook. Etna is situated 2 miles east of Velvet Rocks Shelter.
Norwich
Photo: HopsonRoad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norwich is a city of 3,600 people in eastern Vermont across the Connecticut River from Hanover, New Hampshire. It is commuter town for nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River, and is home to some of the state of Vermont's wealthiest residents.
Velvet Rocks Shelter
- Type: Shelter
- Location: Grafton, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.70237° or 43° 42′ 9″ northLongitude
-72.26466° or 72° 15′ 53″ westOperator
Dartmouth Outing ClubOpen location code
87M9PP2P+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 419229419OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=shelter
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Highlights include Velvet Rocks and Greensboro Ridge Natural Area.
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