Lutz Children's Museum
Lutz Children's Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 86 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Gould Parklet, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 27 miles off.
The story
The Lutz Children's Museum is a non-profit children's museum located in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. Originally known as the Lutz Junior Museum, it was developed on March 4, 1953 by a vote of the Manchester Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Council. Their objective was to "provide supplemental enrichment to students in their classrooms and ask the community to come forth with ideas."
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1953.
Wikidata Q6706021, matched on coordinates and name (4 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 86 m
How to reach it
- 27.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Gould Parklet: 0.4 mi
- Fairway Park: 1.0 mi
- Andrew Ansaldi Park: 1.0 mi
- Linares Preserve: 1.1 mi
- School Street Open Space: 1.1 mi
- Mount Nebo Park: 0.4 mi
- Spruce Street Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Neipsic Tennis Club: 1.2 mi
- Center Park: 1.3 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Mount Nebo: 0.5 mi
- Academy Hill: 1.5 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Birch Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Case Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 0.6 mi
- The Fire Museum: 0.9 mi
- Old Manchester Museum: 1.0 mi
- Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum: 5.6 mi
- Selden Brewer House: 5.8 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 1.3 mi
- Hay Tedder: 3.7 mi
- Car Wreck: 5.0 mi
- The Dreamyard: 6.1 mi
- filled-in well: 6.5 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 1.5 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 1.6 mi
- Case Falls: 1.6 mi
- Blackledge Falls: 4.9 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 5.0 mi
- Frog: 2.4 mi
- Sorry Rock: 3.4 mi
- Equality: 7.2 mi
- The Circuit Rider: 7.4 mi
- A Welcome Conversation: 7.5 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 5.7 mi
- Slocomb Mill: 7.1 mi
- Warner Memorial: 7.7 mi
- William H. Putnam: 7.9 mi
- Site Of The Charter Oak: 7.9 mi
- Wickham Park English Garden: 3.4 mi
- Wickham Park Irish Garden: 3.5 mi
- Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 3.6 mi
- Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 3.7 mi
- Growing Roots Community Garden: 5.9 mi
- Flag Rock: 4.4 mi
- Crow Point: 6.0 mi
- South Wall: 14.5 mi
- Solar Panel: 14.5 mi
- Superstructure: 14.5 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 13.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.4 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 17.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 19.9 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 21.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 14.9 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 14.9 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.1 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 23.6 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 24.4 mi
- Gay City State Park: 4.6 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 18.5 mi
- Windham Spring: 16.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Lutz Children's Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NE 38° | 294 m | 11.1 mi |
| Grant Hill | ENE 58° | 284 m | 8.1 mi |
| Reed Hill | NE 44° | 275 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mannantuck | SE 143° | 273 m | 4.0 mi |
| John Tom Hill | SE 143° | 272 m | 4.0 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | S 188° | 265 m | 8.8 mi |
| Box Hill | NE 46° | 252 m | 4.7 mi |
| Clark Hill | S 182° | 241 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:13 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/967377707
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 11 mi
- Tolland · 11 mi
- Storrs · 14 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 16 mi
- Somers · 16 mi
- Willimantic · 16 mi
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