Hotchkiss Grove Beach
Hotchkiss Grove Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Fowler Mountain stands 230 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Hotchkiss Cove Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.
The story
Beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31810952, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 23.2 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ecology Park: 0.5 mi
- Youngs Pond Park: 0.7 mi
- Foote Riverside Park: 1.2 mi
- Foote Memorial Park: 1.2 mi
- Branford River Boat Launch: 1.5 mi
- Bob's Woods: 0.6 mi
- Goss Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Vedder Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Wies Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Short Beach Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Stony Creek Museum: 1.8 mi
- Harrison House Museum: 2.2 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 3.5 mi
- The Shore Line Trolley Museum: 4.0 mi
- Medad Stone Tavern Museum: 4.9 mi
- Hotchkiss Cove Beach: 0.3 mi
- Limewood Beach: 0.6 mi
- Montowese Beach: 1.0 mi
- Pebbley Beach: 1.4 mi
- Sunset Beach: 1.9 mi
- Sunset Hill: 1.0 mi
- Baldwin Hill: 1.7 mi
- Cherry Hill: 2.7 mi
- Branford Hill: 3.3 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.7 mi
- Cenotaph: 1.7 mi
- World War II: 1.7 mi
- Branford: 1.7 mi
- Korean and Vietnam Memorial: 1.8 mi
- A Tribute to the Valor: 1.8 mi
- Grand Acres Community Garden: 6.2 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 6.3 mi
- English Street Community Garden: 6.7 mi
- Ferry Street Farm: 6.7 mi
- Pardee Rose Garden: 7.7 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 10.9 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 11.1 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 11.5 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 11.9 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 13.0 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 7.7 mi
- John B Pierce: 8.0 mi
- An American Dream: 8.1 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 8.7 mi
- Turtle Statue: 8.8 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 3.4 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 4.2 mi
- Bear Cave: 8.4 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 10.9 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 11.3 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 13.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.8 mi
- Pond View: 23.6 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 23.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
- Chimney Corner: 4.0 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 5.8 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 11.0 mi
- Bluff Head: 11.2 mi
- Pine Ledge: 18.9 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 13.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 13.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 13.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 18.6 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 18.2 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 18.2 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 21.4 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 23.1 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 21.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 7.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Hotchkiss Grove Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler Mountain | N 11° | 230 m | 12.6 mi |
| High Rock | NW 322° | 216 m | 13.0 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | NNE 13° | 210 m | 11.8 mi |
| Mount Carmel | NNW 335° | 206 m | 12.7 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | N 7° | 176 m | 9.2 mi |
| Quonnipaug Mountain | NNE 26° | 167 m | 10.1 mi |
| East Sugarloaf | NNE 21° | 156 m | 8.2 mi |
| West Sugarloaf | NNE 19° | 145 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:47 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 5 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Branford, Branford River, CT, 2 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359264573
Day trips start here
- Essex · 21 mi
- Old Saybrook · 21 mi
- Old Lyme · 25 mi
- East Lyme · 30 mi
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