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Walnut Beach

Walnut Beach, a beach in Connecticut
Walnut Beach, a beach in ConnecticutMatthew Bellemare · CC BY-SA 3.0

Walnut Beach is a beach in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Walnut Beach Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.6 miles off.

The story

beach in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States

Wikidata Q31811138, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What to expect

Operated by
City of Milford
Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates41.19558, -73.07751

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Walnut Beach Park: 0.0 mi
  • Walnut Beach Green: 0.3 mi
  • Wildermere Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Meadowside Playground: 1.1 mi
  • Liberty Rock Park: 1.1 mi
Beaches
  • Silver Sands: 0.7 mi
  • Silver Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Fort Trumbull Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Gulf Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Bayview Beach: 2.3 mi
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 1.9 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 2.8 mi
  • Catharine B Mitchell Museum: 2.8 mi
  • Connecticut Air & Space Center: 3.1 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 3.2 mi
Peaks
  • Knobb Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Academy Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Clark Hill: 3.6 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 3.2 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 5.8 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 6.9 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 7.8 mi
Waterfalls: 31
  • Farmill River Falls: 4.6 mi
  • Cascades: 6.2 mi
  • Cascade: 7.1 mi
  • Cascade: 7.8 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 10.2 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 3.3 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 3.3 mi
  • Mother Mary: 6.5 mi
  • Heron: 6.5 mi
  • An American Dream: 10.5 mi
Attractions: 17
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 6.3 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 9.8 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 10.0 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 12.5 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 14.2 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.5 mi
  • Pond View: 11.7 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 11.7 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.8 mi
Cliffs: 7
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 6.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 6.0 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 21.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 21.6 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 23.9 mi
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Walnut Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillN 350°202 m11.8 mi
Barn HillNNW 332°200 m11.7 mi
Moose HillNW 325°198 m11.6 mi
Israel HillNNW 330°192 m10.6 mi
Bugg HillNW 320°189 m11.5 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 339°188 m11.4 mi
Tashua HillWNW 297°179 m10.0 mi
Walnut Tree HillNNW 328°171 m9.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
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, 3 mi away.

The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.

NOAA CO-OPS station Stratford, I-95 bridge, CT, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/458880282

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