Museum · Connecticut
Boothe Memorial Museum
Boothe Memorial Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. Moose Hill stands 231 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Miniature Windmill, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 0.5 miles off.
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates41.23565, -73.11122
- 0.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Museums
- Americana Museum: 0.0 mi
- Model Railroad Museum: 0.1 mi
- Trumbull Historical Society: 2.7 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 3.0 mi
- Eells-Stow House: 3.0 mi
Gardens
- Rose/Wedding garden: 0.0 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- Eklund Garden: 4.7 mi
- SIS Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Yale Landscape Lab: 6.1 mi
Parks
- Boothe Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
- Pecks Mill Pond Park: 0.7 mi
- The Point Park past Caswell Cove: 1.0 mi
- Roger Sherman Baldwin Park: 1.2 mi
- North End Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
- Prospect Hill: 0.4 mi
- Second Hill: 2.4 mi
- Long Hill: 3.4 mi
- Mischa Hill: 3.5 mi
- Isinglass Hill: 3.5 mi
Nature reserves
- Spring Pond Park: 0.7 mi
- Roosevelt Forest: 1.4 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Far Mill River Park: 1.7 mi
- Merritt Industrial Park Greenbelt: 2.0 mi
Historic sites
- Liberty Rock: 2.3 mi
- World War II: 2.9 mi
- Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine: 3.1 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 3.3 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 3.3 mi
Beaches
- Walnut Beach: 3.3 mi
- Silver Beach: 3.4 mi
- Fort Trumbull Beach: 3.4 mi
- Silver Sands: 3.5 mi
- Gulf Beach: 3.8 mi
Waterfalls: 33
- Farmill River Falls: 1.7 mi
- Cascades: 3.0 mi
- Cascade: 3.9 mi
- Cascade: 6.3 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 7.1 mi
Artworks: 24
- Miniature Windmill: 0.0 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 0.0 mi
- Mother Mary: 3.3 mi
- Heron: 3.9 mi
- An American Dream: 10.3 mi
Attractions: 18
- PEZ Visitor Center: 6.2 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 7.0 mi
- Burr Homestead: 9.8 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 11.8 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 9
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 4.0 mi
- Pond View: 8.5 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 8.5 mi
- Cedar Grove: 8.7 mi
Cliffs: 9
- Forbes Bluff: 11.3 mi
- Chimney Corner: 20.7 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 20.8 mi
- Bethel Rock: 21.6 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 6
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.5 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 20.8 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 20.8 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 23.2 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- Keeper's Dwelling: 5.8 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 5.8 mi
- Fog Signal House: 5.8 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 5.9 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 17.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Pleasure Beach: 5.9 mi
- Cuties Island: 25.0 mi
Springs: 2
- Cold Spring: 12.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Boothe Memorial Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moose Hill | N 358° | 231 m | 11.5 mi |
| Great Hill | N 358° | 202 m | 8.8 mi |
| Barn Hill | NNW 333° | 200 m | 8.4 mi |
| Moose Hill | NW 324° | 198 m | 8.3 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 331° | 192 m | 7.4 mi |
| Rockhouse Hill | N 352° | 192 m | 10.4 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NW 318° | 189 m | 8.3 mi |
| Upper White Hills | NNW 343° | 188 m | 8.2 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 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| 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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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- Stamford · 25 mi
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