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Anchor Beach

Anchor Beach from directly overhead

Anchor Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Village Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.2 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Milford
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.22365, -72.99556

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Village Park: 0.1 mi
  • Dixson Street End: 0.2 mi
  • Borough Hall Park: 0.2 mi
  • Fannie Beach Community Center: 0.2 mi
  • Trubee Doolittle Park: 0.5 mi
Beaches
Peaks
  • Burwell Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Eels Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 1.8 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 3.2 mi
  • Ward Heitmann House Museum: 4.3 mi
  • National Art Museum of Sport: 5.0 mi
  • The Hill Museum of Arts: 5.9 mi
  • Americana Museum: 6.0 mi
Gardens: 49
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 2.0 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 5.7 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 6.0 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Cascade: 5.8 mi
  • Farmill River Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Cascades: 7.6 mi
  • Cascade: 8.3 mi
  • Wintergreen Falls: 8.6 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 6.0 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 6.1 mi
  • John B Pierce: 6.3 mi
  • An American Dream: 6.3 mi
  • Beacon of Hope: 7.5 mi
Attractions: 16
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 2.8 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 7.8 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.4 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 12.8 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 14.5 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 2.7 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 9.7 mi
  • Pond View: 14.0 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 14.1 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 14.3 mi
Cliffs: 5
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.8 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.8 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 19.8 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 24.6 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Anchor Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 327°202 m11.5 mi
Barn HillNW 310°200 m12.9 mi
Moose HillNW 305°198 m13.3 mi
Israel HillNW 307°192 m12.0 mi
Round HillN 358°190 m11.3 mi
Upper White HillsNW 316°188 m12.1 mi
Peck HillN 350°183 m10.9 mi
Peck HillN 349°171 m10.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:2019:4720:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4216:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313239495968747366554536
Precip in2.72.83.74.23.53.53.43.64.03.83.13.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 6 mi away.

Tides

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Gulf Beach, CT, 3 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/816389753

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