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Center Beach

Center Beach from directly overhead

Center Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. High Rock stands 216 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Hawley Ave. Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.4 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Borough of Woodmont
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.22795, -72.98979

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
Parks
  • Trubee Doolittle Park: 0.1 mi
  • Dixson Street End: 0.2 mi
  • Fannie Beach Community Center: 0.2 mi
  • Spencer Street Beach: 0.3 mi
  • Borough Hall Park: 0.3 mi
Peaks
  • Burwell Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Eels Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Jones Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 1.7 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 3.6 mi
  • Ward Heitmann House Museum: 3.9 mi
  • National Art Museum of Sport: 4.6 mi
  • The Hill Museum of Arts: 5.5 mi
  • Americana Museum: 6.3 mi
Gardens: 49
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 1.8 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.6 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Peace Garden At West River: 5.7 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Cascade: 5.6 mi
  • Farmill River Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Cascades: 7.7 mi
  • Wintergreen Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Cascade: 8.3 mi
Artworks: 24
  • John B Pierce: 5.9 mi
  • An American Dream: 5.9 mi
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 6.3 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 6.3 mi
  • Beacon of Hope: 7.2 mi
Attractions: 17
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 2.5 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 7.5 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.2 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 13.0 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 14.9 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 3.1 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 10.0 mi
  • Pond View: 14.1 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 14.2 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 14.5 mi
Cliffs: 5
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 19.4 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 24.2 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High RockN 11°216 m13.0 mi
Great HillNW 325°202 m11.4 mi
Barn HillNW 308°200 m12.9 mi
Israel HillNW 305°192 m12.1 mi
Round HillN 356°190 m11.0 mi
Upper White HillsNW 314°188 m12.1 mi
Peck HillNNW 348°183 m10.6 mi
Peck HillNNW 347°171 m10.3 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/816389746

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