Fort Trumbull Beach
Fort Trumbull Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Eric Zimmerman Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.2 miles off.
The story
Beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31810926, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 3.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Eells-Stow House: 0.8 mi
- Model Railroad Museum: 3.3 mi
- Americana Museum: 3.4 mi
- Boothe Memorial Museum: 3.4 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 3.9 mi
- Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Trails: 1.4 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Solomon Woods: 3.0 mi
- Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area: 3.0 mi
- Eric Zimmerman Playground: 0.3 mi
- Gulf Beach: 0.7 mi
- Meadowside Playground: 0.7 mi
- Milford Green: 0.9 mi
- Wilcox Park: 0.9 mi
- Silver Beach: 0.4 mi
- Gulf Beach: 0.7 mi
- Silver Sands: 0.7 mi
- Bayview Beach: 1.2 mi
- Walnut Beach: 1.3 mi
- Knobb Hill: 1.0 mi
- Bryan Hill: 1.7 mi
- Merwin Hill: 2.2 mi
- Clark Hill: 2.3 mi
- Eels Hill: 2.6 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 0.5 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 0.5 mi
- Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine: 1.0 mi
- World War II: 1.0 mi
- Liberty Rock: 1.9 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 2.7 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 3.3 mi
- Yale Landscape Lab: 4.5 mi
- Eklund Garden: 7.4 mi
- SIS Community Garden: 8.0 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 3.4 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 3.4 mi
- Mother Mary: 6.7 mi
- Heron: 7.1 mi
- An American Dream: 9.2 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 4.3 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 9.7 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 10.7 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 10.9 mi
- Sperry Falls: 12.7 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 5.0 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 10.4 mi
- Burr Homestead: 11.0 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 11.3 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.3 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 0.7 mi
- Picnic Grove: 6.4 mi
- Pond View: 11.9 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 11.9 mi
- Cedar Grove: 12.1 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 9.2 mi
- Chimney Corner: 18.2 mi
- Bluff Head: 23.4 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 23.6 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 24.2 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 4.5 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 4.5 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 6.8 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 18.5 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 24.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 5.0 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.1 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 22.7 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 22.7 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 22.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.3 mi
- The Silver Spring: 23.4 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 6.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of Fort Trumbull Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hill | NNW 344° | 202 m | 11.2 mi |
| Barn Hill | NW 325° | 200 m | 11.5 mi |
| Moose Hill | NW 318° | 198 m | 11.6 mi |
| Israel Hill | NW 323° | 192 m | 10.5 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NW 314° | 189 m | 11.6 mi |
| Upper White Hills | NNW 332° | 188 m | 11.1 mi |
| Tashua Hill | WNW 290° | 179 m | 10.6 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NW 320° | 171 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 5 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Milford Harbor, CT, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1051308470
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 27 mi
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