Attawan Beach
Attawan Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Ridge Hill stands 134 m to the north, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Old Black Point Road), a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 10 miles off.
The story
Beach in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31810868, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 10.4 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 20.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 22.9 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McCook Point Park: 1.1 mi
- Hole-in-the-Wall Beach: 1.3 mi
- Nickerson Park: 1.5 mi
- Dodge Pond Boat Launch: 1.6 mi
- East Lyme Town Ramp: 1.8 mi
- Baptist Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Ararat: 1.4 mi
- Green Hill: 2.4 mi
- Durfey Hill: 2.6 mi
- Amon Hill: 3.1 mi
- Niantic Children’s Museum: 1.3 mi
- Nathaniel Hempstead House: 6.3 mi
- Fort Trumbull Visitor Center: 6.3 mi
- New London County Historical Society: 6.4 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 6.5 mi
- Crescent Beach: 0.8 mi
- McCook Park Beach: 1.0 mi
- Hole-in-the-Wall Beach: 1.2 mi
- Giants Neck Beach: 1.4 mi
- Rocky Neck State Beach: 1.8 mi
- East Lyme Veterans Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Bride Brook Historical Plaque: 2.2 mi
- Columbo Statue: 6.3 mi
- South Battery: 6.3 mi
- United States Maritime Service Officers School: 6.4 mi
- The Whale: 6.7 mi
- turtle rock: 10.2 mi
- tri-town marker: 10.5 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 11.3 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 11.4 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 6.4 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 7.8 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 8.9 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 9.7 mi
- Sparky: 10.5 mi
- Rock Garden: 4.7 mi
- West Garden: 4.7 mi
- Cutting Garden: 4.8 mi
- East Garden: 4.8 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 7.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 7.5 mi
- Chapman Falls: 14.3 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 16.9 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 16.9 mi
- Yantic Falls: 17.0 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 9.9 mi
- Crow Head: 14.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 14.5 mi
- Ram Head: 16.1 mi
- Hedges Bank: 18.1 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 7.7 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 18.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 18.0 mi
- Oil Shed: 18.0 mi
- Powder House: 5.4 mi
- Skate Hut: 5.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 11.8 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 12.5 mi
- Old Spring: 13.8 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 18.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Attawan Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridge Hill | N 4° | 134 m | 8.6 mi |
| Grassy Hill | NNW 330° | 129 m | 7.7 mi |
| Nickerson Hill | NW 316° | 123 m | 9.1 mi |
| Morgan Hill | N 3° | 120 m | 7.4 mi |
| Polly Hill | N 3° | 117 m | 7.0 mi |
| Konomoc Hill | NNE 15° | 112 m | 7.2 mi |
| Brown Hill | NW 314° | 112 m | 8.3 mi |
| Beaverdam Hill | NNE 11° | 105 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:39 | 16:23 |
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 | 31 | 32 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton NEW London AP, 8 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Niantic, Niantic River, CT, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/431603469
Day trips start here
- East Lyme · 4 mi
- Waterford · 4 mi
- Old Lyme · 5 mi
- New London · 7 mi
- Old Saybrook · 9 mi
- Essex · 10 mi
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