Waterplace Park
Waterplace Park is an attraction in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Central Landfill stands 210 m to the west, 6.4 miles off. Revolutionary Heritage Byway runs past it.
Waterfire is a summer weekend event where the river has brazers filled with wood and burn all night. starts at sunset and goes past midnight
The story
park in the United States of America
Wikidata Q7974388, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Waterfire
How to reach it
- On the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 1.6 mi off the Veteran's Memorial Parkway
- 5.3 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads
- 9.5 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Overlooks nearby
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 1 mi
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 6 mi
- Lookout Point · 13 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Waterplace Park: 0.0 mi
- Biltmore Park: 0.1 mi
- Burnside Park: 0.1 mi
- Station Park: 0.1 mi
- BankNewport City Center: 0.1 mi
- Ambrose Burnside Statue: 0.1 mi
- Elevation II: 0.2 mi
- Major General Nathanael Greene: 0.2 mi
- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry: 0.3 mi
- Turk's Head: 0.3 mi
- "The Hiker": 0.2 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 0.2 mi
- Garden of Heroes: 0.3 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Providence Veterans Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Rhode Island State House Tours: 0.3 mi
- Hasbro's Our Big Backyard: 2.6 mi
- Naturescape: 2.6 mi
- Treehouse For All: 2.6 mi
- Woodlands Express! Train Ride (Seasonal): 2.7 mi
- The Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design: 0.3 mi
- Governor Stephen Hopkins House: 0.4 mi
- Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology: 0.5 mi
- Rhode Island Jewish Museum: 0.6 mi
- John Brown House Museum: 0.6 mi
- Fort Hill: 1.6 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 1.8 mi
- Baileys Butts: 1.8 mi
- Windmill Hill: 2.3 mi
- Rocky Hill: 2.7 mi
- Boyden Heights Conservation Area: 3.4 mi
- Edna Martin Wildlife Refuge: 4.0 mi
- Seekonk Sanctuary: 4.1 mi
- Conservation Commission: 4.5 mi
- Cushing Conservation Area: 4.7 mi
- Edgewood Beach: 3.5 mi
- Twin Rivers Beach East: 4.0 mi
- Frank Moody State Beach: 4.4 mi
- Georgiaville Pond Beach: 6.6 mi
- Georgiaville Beach: 6.6 mi
- Garden of Heroes: 0.3 mi
- Radeke Garden: 0.3 mi
- J. R. Workman Garden: 0.7 mi
- Brown Street Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- The Frank Kellerman Memorial Garden: 0.7 mi
- Site #36: 5.6 mi
- 4: 12.9 mi
- 3: 12.9 mi
- 6: 12.9 mi
- 5: 12.9 mi
- Tomato Boulder: 5.0 mi
- Mack's Traverse: 5.0 mi
- Iron Cross Boulder: 5.0 mi
- Warm Up Cave: 5.0 mi
- Summit Wall: 5.0 mi
- Thirsty Beaver: 7.1 mi
- Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 8.0 mi
- Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 8.0 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 9.9 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 10.1 mi
- Cascade Brook Falls: 8.7 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 12.1 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 12.3 mi
- Ponogansett Falls: 13.6 mi
- Spencer Rock Waterfall: 20.2 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 0.3 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 12.6 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of Waterplace Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Landfill | W 259° | 210 m | 6.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | W 267° | 174 m | 7.2 mi |
| Peck Hill | WSW 257° | 167 m | 7.7 mi |
| Bald Hill | WSW 243° | 161 m | 8.2 mi |
| Rocky Hill | NW 326° | 155 m | 8.7 mi |
| Horn Hill | WSW 249° | 154 m | 7.8 mi |
| Wolf Hill | NW 306° | 144 m | 7.3 mi |
| Snake Hill | WNW 287° | 144 m | 9.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:08 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:34 | 16:18 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Providence, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357267619
Day trips start here
- Providence · 0 mi
- Providence/College Hill · 1 mi
- Providence/Downtown · 1 mi
- Providence/Federal Hill · 1 mi
- Providence/Fox Point · 1 mi
- Providence/Smith Hill · 1 mi
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