Walnut Beach
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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
- 3.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Beaver Brook Trails: 1.3 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area: 1.8 mi
- Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Stratford Point Reserve: 3.2 mi
- 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
- Liberty Rock: 1.1 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 1.7 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 1.7 mi
- World War II: 2.1 mi
- Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine: 2.1 mi
- 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
- 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
- Farmill River Falls: 4.6 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 10.2 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 11.9 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 11.9 mi
- Sperry Falls: 13.8 mi
- 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
- Forbes Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Chimney Corner: 19.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 24.0 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 24.4 mi
- Bethel Rock: 24.7 mi
- 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
- Keeper's Dwelling: 3.3 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 3.3 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 5.6 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 17.3 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 23.5 mi
- 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
- Cold Spring: 12.6 mi
- The Silver Spring: 22.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 5.3 mi
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.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hill | N 350° | 202 m | 11.8 mi |
| Barn Hill | NNW 332° | 200 m | 11.7 mi |
| Moose Hill | NW 325° | 198 m | 11.6 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 330° | 192 m | 10.6 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NW 320° | 189 m | 11.5 mi |
| Upper White Hills | NNW 339° | 188 m | 11.4 mi |
| Tashua Hill | WNW 297° | 179 m | 10.0 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NNW 328° | 171 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
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 mi away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/458880282
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 26 mi
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