Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area
Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Bond's Dock, a park 0.8 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 3.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bond's Dock: 0.8 mi
- Long Brook Park: 0.9 mi
- Shakespeare Park: 0.9 mi
- Grove Circle Neighborhood Park: 0.9 mi
- Margaret Egan Center Park: 1.0 mi
- Catharine B Mitchell Museum: 1.1 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 1.3 mi
- Connecticut Air & Space Center: 1.5 mi
- Model Railroad Museum: 3.4 mi
- Boothe Memorial Museum: 3.5 mi
- Academy Hill: 1.3 mi
- Success Hill: 2.5 mi
- Second Hill: 3.3 mi
- Knobb Hill: 3.9 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.9 mi
- Liberty Rock: 1.6 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 3.4 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 3.4 mi
- World War II: 3.7 mi
- Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine: 3.7 mi
- Short Beach: 1.7 mi
- Walnut Beach: 1.8 mi
- Silver Sands: 2.4 mi
- Lordship Beach: 2.4 mi
- Silver Beach: 2.7 mi
- Stratford Point Reserve: 2.1 mi
- Beaver Brook Trails: 2.4 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Wooster Park: 2.7 mi
- Veterans Park: 3.4 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 3.5 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 5.1 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 6.8 mi
- Yale Landscape Lab: 7.5 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 5.2 mi
- Cascades: 6.5 mi
- Cascade: 7.4 mi
- Cascade: 9.1 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 10.7 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 3.5 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 3.5 mi
- Heron: 5.7 mi
- Mother Mary: 6.1 mi
- An American Dream: 12.2 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 7.9 mi
- Burr Homestead: 8.0 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.4 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 14.3 mi
- Earthplace: 14.4 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 3.7 mi
- Picnic Grove: 4.2 mi
- Cedar Grove: 11.2 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 11.2 mi
- Pond View: 11.2 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 2.3 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 2.3 mi
- Fog Signal House: 2.3 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 3.8 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 15.5 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 12.3 mi
- Chimney Corner: 21.0 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 22.8 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 23.4 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 24.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 7.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 7.3 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 19.8 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 19.9 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.5 mi
- Cuties Island: 23.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 14.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 21.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hill | N 358° | 202 m | 12.3 mi |
| Barn Hill | NNW 340° | 200 m | 11.7 mi |
| Moose Hill | NNW 334° | 198 m | 11.4 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 339° | 192 m | 10.6 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NNW 329° | 189 m | 11.2 mi |
| Upper White Hills | NNW 347° | 188 m | 11.6 mi |
| Tashua Hill | NW 305° | 179 m | 9.0 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NNW 339° | 171 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| 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, 2 mi away.
- American Oystercatcher181 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron168 obs
- American Herring Gull132 obs
- Osprey124 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab113 obs
- Semipalmated Sandpiper110 obs
- Eastern Oyster101 obs
- Purple Martin99 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359284009
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 24 mi
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