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Morningside Beach

Morningside Beach from directly overhead

Morningside Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Robert Hutchins Parkette, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.0 miles off.

About

The story

beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States

Wikidata Q31811071, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.20926, -73.00816

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
  • Merwin Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Burwell Hill: 0.8 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Eels Hill: 1.3 mi
Beaches
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 2.6 mi
  • Ward Heitmann House Museum: 5.5 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 5.6 mi
  • Americana Museum: 5.6 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 5.7 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens: 49
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 3.1 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 5.6 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 6.8 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 6.9 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Farmill River Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Cascade: 6.6 mi
  • Cascades: 7.6 mi
  • Cascade: 8.4 mi
  • Wintergreen Falls: 9.7 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 5.6 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 5.6 mi
  • John B Pierce: 7.5 mi
  • An American Dream: 7.5 mi
  • Beacon of Hope: 8.7 mi
Attractions: 18
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 3.8 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 8.8 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 12.6 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.2 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 13.5 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 9.0 mi
  • Pond View: 13.9 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 14.0 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 14.2 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Cliffs: 4
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.3 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 5.3 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Morningside Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 332°202 m12.1 mi
Barn HillNW 316°200 m13.1 mi
Israel HillNW 313°192 m12.2 mi
Round HillN 1°190 m12.3 mi
Upper White HillsNW 321°188 m12.4 mi
Peck HillN 354°183 m11.8 mi
Tashua HillWNW 286°179 m13.0 mi
Walnut Tree HillNW 309°171 m10.7 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 solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 7 mi away.

Tides

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Gulf Beach, CT, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/359282001

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