Shell Beach
Shell Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. High Rock stands 216 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Town Landing, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 10 miles off.
The story
beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Wikidata Q31811122, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 27.5 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 27 mi
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Old Town Landing: 0.3 mi
- Maturo Drive Playground: 0.4 mi
- Morris Creek Nature Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Bradford Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Farm River State Park: 2.1 mi
- Lighthouse Point Park: 0.3 mi
- Morris Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Jerry Juliano Park: 0.7 mi
- Pardee Seawall Park: 1.2 mi
- Nathan Hale Park: 1.5 mi
- West Silver Sands Beach: 0.7 mi
- Silver Sands Beach: 1.1 mi
- Momauguin Beach: 1.5 mi
- Victoria Beach: 1.7 mi
- Short Beach: 2.3 mi
- Fort Hale Point: 1.7 mi
- East Haven Fire Department Memorial: 2.6 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 2.6 mi
- World War II Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Oak: 2.6 mi
- Raynham Hill: 2.1 mi
- Chidsey Hill: 2.2 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.5 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.7 mi
- Branford Hill: 3.3 mi
- The Shore Line Trolley Museum: 2.7 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 3.1 mi
- Ward Heitmann House Museum: 3.5 mi
- The Hill Museum of Arts: 4.4 mi
- Harrison House Museum: 4.4 mi
- Washington Ave Community Garden: 3.9 mi
- Truman Street Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Grand Acres Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Ferry Street Farm: 4.9 mi
- English Street Community Garden: 4.9 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 7.8 mi
- Cascade: 7.9 mi
- Cascade: 10.0 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 10.3 mi
- Sperry Falls: 10.5 mi
- John B Pierce: 4.3 mi
- An American Dream: 4.3 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 5.7 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 5.9 mi
- Turtle Statue: 6.0 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 2.6 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 5.3 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 10.0 mi
- Bear Cave: 12.9 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.0 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 8.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 14.9 mi
- Pond View: 18.2 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 18.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 18.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 8.1 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 8.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 16.0 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 22.6 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.8 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 1.4 mi
- Chimney Corner: 9.6 mi
- Bluff Head: 15.5 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 15.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 24.7 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 12.5 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 12.5 mi
- Fog Signal House: 12.5 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 15.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 5.6 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 15.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Shell Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Rock | NNW 349° | 216 m | 11.7 mi |
| Mount Carmel | N 2° | 206 m | 12.8 mi |
| Round Hill | NNW 331° | 190 m | 11.2 mi |
| Peck Hill | NW 323° | 183 m | 11.5 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | NNE 33° | 176 m | 12.5 mi |
| Peck Hill | NW 321° | 171 m | 11.3 mi |
| East Sugarloaf | NE 44° | 156 m | 12.5 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NW 326° | 153 m | 10.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:42 | 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, 1 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Lighthouse Point, New Haven Harbor, CT, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/355193670
Day trips start here
- Essex · 27 mi
- Old Saybrook · 27 mi
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