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Point Beach

Point Beach from directly overhead

Point 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 Point Beach Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 4.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.20399, -73.01649

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Beaches
Peaks
  • Merwin Hill: 0.6 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Burwell Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Knobb Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.4 mi
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 2.4 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 5.4 mi
  • Americana Museum: 5.4 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 5.4 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 6.0 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens: 47
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 3.6 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 5.3 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 7.4 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 7.4 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Farmill River Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Cascade: 6.9 mi
  • Cascades: 7.5 mi
  • Cascade: 8.3 mi
  • Wintergreen Falls: 10.2 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 5.4 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 5.4 mi
  • John B Pierce: 8.0 mi
  • An American Dream: 8.0 mi
  • Mother Mary: 8.7 mi
Attractions: 18
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 4.3 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 9.3 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 12.4 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 13.0 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.5 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 8.6 mi
  • Pond View: 13.8 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 13.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 14.0 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 5.5 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.5 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 24.8 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 24.8 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Cliffs: 4
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Point Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 335°202 m12.2 mi
Barn HillNW 318°200 m13.0 mi
Israel HillNW 315°192 m12.1 mi
Round HillN 3°190 m12.6 mi
Upper White HillsNW 324°188 m12.4 mi
Peck HillN 356°183 m12.1 mi
Tashua HillWNW 288°179 m12.7 mi
Walnut Tree HillNW 312°171 m10.6 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, 6 mi away.

Tides

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Gulf Beach, CT, 1 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/359282336

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