Bittner Park
Bittner Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Trimountain stands 232 m to the north, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Hill, a peak 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 21 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of Guilford
How to reach it
- 20.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 23.5 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Long Hill: 0.5 mi
- Thunder Ridge: 1.7 mi
- Hungry Hill: 1.9 mi
- Notch Hill: 2.3 mi
- Moose Hill: 2.4 mi
- Little Meadow Brook: 0.8 mi
- Malley's Pond: 1.2 mi
- Timberlands: 1.4 mi
- Branford River Headwaters: 1.5 mi
- Old Route 80: 1.8 mi
- Long Hill Park: 1.8 mi
- Nut Plains Park: 2.4 mi
- Mill Pond Park: 3.3 mi
- Olmsted Outlook: 3.8 mi
- Guilford Town Green: 3.9 mi
- Medad Stone Tavern Museum: 3.6 mi
- Hyland House Museum: 4.1 mi
- Thomas Griswold House: 4.1 mi
- Henry Whitfield State Historical Museum: 4.4 mi
- Stony Creek Museum: 4.8 mi
- Guilford Vietnam War Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Guilford Volunteer Firefighters' Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Guilford Soldiers Monument: 4.0 mi
- Guilford Granite: 4.0 mi
- Guilford World War I Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Shell Beach: 5.0 mi
- Jacobs Public Beach: 5.2 mi
- Daniel Ave. Beach: 5.5 mi
- Circle Beach: 5.7 mi
- Indian Cove Beach: 5.7 mi
- Cascade: 4.2 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 5.5 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 6.2 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 11.4 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 11.6 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 4.9 mi
- Madison Community Gardens: 6.0 mi
- Native Plant Gardens: 6.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 8.0 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 8.1 mi
- Bear Cave: 2.8 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 3.2 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 5.2 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 7.1 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 8.3 mi
- snake: 5.3 mi
- Totem Pole: 6.2 mi
- James Madison: 7.0 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 10.1 mi
- Turtle Statue: 11.4 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 5.1 mi
- Bluff Head: 5.3 mi
- Chimney Corner: 6.0 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Pine Ledge: 13.6 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 9.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 15.0 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 15.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 17.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 17.8 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 19.9 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 23.9 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 23.9 mi
- Fog Signal House: 23.9 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.2 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 16.7 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Bittner Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trimountain | N 352° | 232 m | 8.7 mi |
| Fowler Mountain | N 349° | 230 m | 7.6 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | N 350° | 210 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mount Carmel | NW 306° | 206 m | 11.3 mi |
| Goose Hill | NE 46° | 201 m | 10.7 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | NNE 15° | 196 m | 8.0 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | NNW 328° | 176 m | 5.1 mi |
| Quonnipaug Mountain | N 9° | 167 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:41 | 16:25 |
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 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 11 mi away.
- Eastern Bluebird81 obs
- Downy Woodpecker63 obs
- American Goldfinch62 obs
- House Finch54 obs
- Red-shouldered Hawk48 obs
- White-throated Sparrow48 obs
- Wood Frog45 obs
- Northern Cardinal44 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/43438836
Day trips start here
- Essex · 17 mi
- Old Saybrook · 17 mi
- Old Lyme · 21 mi
- East Lyme · 25 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 26 mi
- Waterford · 29 mi
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