Bates Woods Park
Bates Woods Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 23 m. Sharp Hill stands 149 m to the north-northwest, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Skate Hut, a picnic site 0.2 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 15 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space
What the record says
- Elevation
- 23 m
How to reach it
- 15.0 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 15.1 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 18.0 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 24.9 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Veterans Memorial Field: 0.5 mi
- Blackhall Park: 0.7 mi
- Mahan Park: 0.7 mi
- Bartlett Park: 0.7 mi
- Williams Park: 0.9 mi
- Prospect Hill: 0.6 mi
- Twomile Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mallory Hill: 1.0 mi
- Meeting House Hill: 1.1 mi
- Soldier Hill: 1.3 mi
- Nathaniel Hempstead House: 0.9 mi
- New London County Historical Society: 1.2 mi
- Custom House Maritime Museum: 1.3 mi
- Nathan Hale Schoolhouse: 1.4 mi
- Lyman Allyn Museum of Art: 1.6 mi
- Sandy Hollow Drive Park: 1.1 mi
- Rose Swamp Tract: 1.2 mi
- Manitock Hill Road (Owned By New London): 1.5 mi
- Jordan Mill Park: 1.6 mi
- Rovetti Tract: 2.3 mi
- Columbo Statue: 1.1 mi
- Soldiers-Sailors Monument: 1.4 mi
- Captain Hopley Yeaton Memorial: 1.5 mi
- United States Maritime Service Officers School: 1.5 mi
- The Guns: 1.5 mi
- Green Harbor Beach: 1.7 mi
- Mitchell Beach: 2.4 mi
- Kiddie's Beach: 2.9 mi
- Osprey Beach: 3.2 mi
- Ocean Beach: 3.5 mi
- The Whale: 1.4 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 5.9 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 6.0 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 9.8 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 10.1 mi
- Cascade: 5.2 mi
- Cascade: 5.4 mi
- Silver Falls: 6.4 mi
- Yantic Falls: 12.4 mi
- Cascade: 14.3 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 0.9 mi
- Sparky: 5.9 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 7.0 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 7.5 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 7.7 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 1.6 mi
- Laurel Walk: 1.7 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 1.7 mi
- Azalea Garden: 1.7 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 1.9 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 12.3 mi
- Crow Head: 17.6 mi
- Pine Ledge: 17.8 mi
- Ram Head: 20.9 mi
- Hedges Bank: 22.3 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 13.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 14.1 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 14.1 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 14.1 mi
- Oil Shed: 14.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 0.2 mi
- Powder House: 0.5 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 23.6 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 23.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 7.9 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 8.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 16.7 mi
- Old Spring: 8.2 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Bates Woods Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp Hill | NNW 347° | 149 m | 6.8 mi |
| Crandall Hill | N 357° | 137 m | 6.8 mi |
| Ridge Hill | NW 324° | 134 m | 6.3 mi |
| Morgan Hill | NW 315° | 120 m | 5.5 mi |
| Polly Hill | NW 311° | 117 m | 5.2 mi |
| Lynch Hill | N 353° | 115 m | 7.4 mi |
| Konomoc Hill | NW 324° | 112 m | 4.3 mi |
| Pie Hill | N 352° | 109 m | 6.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 72 | 65 | 54 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton NEW London AP, 4 mi away.
- Canada Goose38 obs
- American Herring Gull28 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee22 obs
- common mugwort21 obs
- Sweet Pepperbush21 obs
- mountain laurel18 obs
- Viscid Violet Cort17 obs
- common toadflax16 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/43439689
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