Limewood Beach
Limewood Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Fowler Mountain stands 230 m to the north-northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Montowese Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 15 miles off.
The story
Beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
Wikidata Q31811008, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 15.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 23.4 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ecology Park: 0.6 mi
- Foote Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
- Pawson Park Marsh Wildlife Area: 1.1 mi
- Branford River Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
- Youngs Pond Park: 1.2 mi
- Bob's Woods: 1.2 mi
- Goss Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Vedder Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Short Beach Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Wies Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Harrison House Museum: 2.0 mi
- Stony Creek Museum: 2.4 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 3.2 mi
- The Shore Line Trolley Museum: 3.6 mi
- Medad Stone Tavern Museum: 5.4 mi
- Montowese Beach: 0.4 mi
- Hotchkiss Grove Beach: 0.6 mi
- Hotchkiss Cove Beach: 0.8 mi
- Pebbley Beach: 0.8 mi
- Sunset Beach: 1.4 mi
- World War II: 1.6 mi
- Cenotaph: 1.6 mi
- Branford: 1.7 mi
- Korean and Vietnam Memorial: 2.3 mi
- A Tribute to the Valor: 2.3 mi
- Sunset Hill: 1.5 mi
- Baldwin Hill: 1.6 mi
- Cherry Hill: 2.5 mi
- Branford Hill: 2.9 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.3 mi
- Grand Acres Community Garden: 6.0 mi
- English Street Community Garden: 6.5 mi
- Ferry Street Farm: 6.5 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 6.8 mi
- Pardee Rose Garden: 7.6 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 10.7 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 11.7 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 11.8 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 11.9 mi
- Sperry Falls: 13.1 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 7.6 mi
- John B Pierce: 7.7 mi
- An American Dream: 7.7 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 8.4 mi
- Turtle Statue: 8.5 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 2.9 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 4.7 mi
- Bear Cave: 8.9 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 10.5 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 11.8 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 13.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.3 mi
- Pond View: 23.2 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 23.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 23.6 mi
- Chimney Corner: 4.4 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 11.5 mi
- Bluff Head: 11.6 mi
- Pine Ledge: 19.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 13.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 13.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 13.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.1 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.5 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 17.6 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 17.6 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 20.9 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 23.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 20.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 7.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Limewood Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler Mountain | NNE 13° | 230 m | 12.9 mi |
| High Rock | NW 324° | 216 m | 13.0 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | NNE 14° | 210 m | 12.2 mi |
| Mount Carmel | NNW 337° | 206 m | 12.8 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | N 9° | 176 m | 9.6 mi |
| Quonnipaug Mountain | NNE 28° | 167 m | 10.6 mi |
| East Sugarloaf | NNE 23° | 156 m | 8.7 mi |
| West Sugarloaf | NNE 22° | 145 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 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, 1 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359265421
Day trips start here
- Essex · 22 mi
- Old Saybrook · 22 mi
- Old Lyme · 26 mi
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