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Wethersfield Community Gardens

Wethersfield Community Gardens from directly overhead

Wethersfield Community Gardens is a garden in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Colonial Revival Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away.

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Wethersfield

How to reach it

Coordinates41.71175, -72.65516

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens: 60
Museums
Attractions
Parks
  • Rose Green: 0.3 mi
  • Standish Park: 0.4 mi
  • Savage Park: 0.5 mi
  • Northbrick Green: 0.5 mi
  • Hanmer Park: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Artworks
Waterfalls
Cliffs: 22
  • Crow Point: 2.0 mi
  • South Wall: 8.4 mi
  • Solar Panel: 8.4 mi
  • Superstructure: 8.4 mi
  • Garden Wall: 8.8 mi
Beaches: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 11.8 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 16.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 18.5 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 22.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 22.3 mi
Springs: 4
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 23.0 mi
  • Hermit spring: 23.2 mi
  • Windham Spring: 23.4 mi
  • Big Spring: 24.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 20.7 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Wethersfield Community Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Talcott MountainNW 313°276 m10.1 mi
MannantuckE 91°273 m9.4 mi
John Tom HillE 91°272 m9.4 mi
Meshomasic MountainSE 134°265 m8.1 mi
Ely MoundNW 306°246 m9.4 mi
Lookout MountainENE 71°237 m9.2 mi
Kongscut MountainE 98°234 m8.0 mi
Birch MountainENE 74°233 m9.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 2 mi away.

  • sensitive fern22 obs
  • eastern poison ivy17 obs
  • purple loosestrife17 obs
  • Great Blue Heron16 obs
  • American Robin16 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee14 obs
  • Canada Goose13 obs
  • American Herring Gull13 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1009186799

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