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Cherry Lane Park

Cherry Lane Park from directly overhead

Cherry Lane Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 80 m. Ivy Hill stands 234 m to the north-northwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Banks Drive Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
80 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.19172, -73.40833

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Banks Drive Open Space: 0.3 mi
  • Richard C. Wheeler Nature Preserve: 1.1 mi
  • Stirrup Place Open Space: 1.3 mi
  • Old Lantern Drive Open Space: 1.3 mi
  • Merwin Meadows Bath House: 1.4 mi
Peaks
Museums
Parks
Historic sites
  • Leornard Bradley Plaque: 1.3 mi
  • Olmstead Memorial: 4.0 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 4.9 mi
  • War Memorial: 5.1 mi
  • Capped Water Well: 5.1 mi
Gardens
  • Formal Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Fairy Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Herb Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Community Garden: 5.5 mi
Beaches
Artworks: 49
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 8.9 mi
  • Annunaki: 9.8 mi
  • Dancing Girl: 11.8 mi
  • Samford Sign: 11.9 mi
  • Stamford Cone: 12.1 mi
Attractions: 24
Waterfalls: 19
  • Cascade: 4.0 mi
  • Cascade: 4.0 mi
  • Sheep Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 4.8 mi
  • Cascade: 4.8 mi
Picnic sites: 12
  • The Meadow: 8.5 mi
  • Pell Hill: 10.1 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 10.4 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.7 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 11.9 mi
Cliffs: 11
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 6.2 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 6.2 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 14.8 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 6.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of Cherry Lane Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ivy HillNNW 333°234 m7.2 mi
Branchville HillNNW 330°225 m5.9 mi
Biddle HillNNW 328°223 m6.4 mi
Windy HillN 353°220 m6.7 mi
Goodsell HillN 356°211 m5.1 mi
Becks HillWNW 291°208 m6.1 mi
Huckleberry HillN 2°204 m5.7 mi
Nod HillNNW 332°199 m5.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2219:4920:31
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1615:4416:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303240516169757366554435
Precip in4.33.14.74.44.14.93.83.85.24.64.24.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stamford 5 N, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • garlic mustard53 obs
  • winged euonymus40 obs
  • common jewelweed39 obs
  • American pokeweed36 obs
  • American Toad35 obs
  • wineberry34 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee33 obs
  • common mugwort32 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43399795

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