Countryside Park
Countryside Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 133 m. Cotton Hill stands 360 m to the west-northwest, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Woodford Hill, a peak 0.5 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 28 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 133 m
How to reach it
- 28.0 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Named places within 25 miles
- Woodford Hill: 0.5 mi
- Taine Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Huckleberry Hill: 1.8 mi
- Huckleberry Hill: 1.9 mi
- Sweetheart Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Town of Avon Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Dubiel - Kubik Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Huckleberry Hill Recreation Area: 0.9 mi
- Midland Drive Open Space: 1.0 mi
- Found Land Recreation Area: 1.4 mi
- Canton Historical Museum: 1.8 mi
- Unionville Museum: 2.2 mi
- Avon Historical Society Museum: 4.4 mi
- Day-Lewis Museum: 6.1 mi
- Stanley-Whitman House Museum: 6.2 mi
- Seven Steps Falls: 2.0 mi
- Fetzer Falls: 2.0 mi
- Burlington Falls: 2.8 mi
- Bunnell's Falls: 2.9 mi
- Whigville Falls: 4.2 mi
- Suburban Park: 2.3 mi
- Sycamore Hills Park: 2.4 mi
- Town Open Space (Canton Spring Road): 2.7 mi
- Millennium Field: 2.7 mi
- Yodkin-Morin Memorial Park: 2.7 mi
- Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 2.3 mi
- Kathy Ebersold plaque: 2.7 mi
- Vincent H. Core Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Newton C. Brainard: 6.0 mi
- Asa Spaulding Porter: 6.7 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 5.5 mi
- Sunken Garden: 6.4 mi
- Perennial Garden: 7.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.7 mi
- Shade Garden: 7.7 mi
- 1780s dam site: 1.5 mi
- Wreck: 1.8 mi
- Swimming Pool: 2.2 mi
- Kettles: 2.2 mi
- Trolley Offices Sign: 2.3 mi
- Bike Sculpture: 6.6 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 8.1 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 8.9 mi
- Painted Cow: 9.5 mi
- Sedna: 9.9 mi
- Queen Mary Ledge: 5.0 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 5.7 mi
- Hart Meadow: 5.7 mi
- Garden Wall: 5.7 mi
- Superstructure: 5.8 mi
- Boating Side: 12.5 mi
- Waterfront: 12.6 mi
- Holland Beach: 13.1 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 16.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 16.5 mi
- Hermit spring: 9.3 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 10.6 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 12.4 mi
- Big Spring: 12.5 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 14.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 23.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 12.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 23.3 mi
- Dudley Town: 22.9 mi
- Gay City State Park: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Countryside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Hill | WNW 284° | 360 m | 7.1 mi |
| Ratlum Mountain | N 352° | 358 m | 7.2 mi |
| Johnnycake Mountain | WSW 243° | 354 m | 4.9 mi |
| Hayden Hill | WNW 285° | 332 m | 8.9 mi |
| West Hill | NW 316° | 328 m | 8.4 mi |
| Breezy Hill | NNW 346° | 327 m | 6.3 mi |
| Yellow Mountain | NW 307° | 310 m | 6.0 mi |
| West Ledge | NNE 14° | 305 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 1 mi away.
- American Black Bear12 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant10 obs
- sensitive fern9 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco8 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage8 obs
- common mugwort8 obs
- White-tailed Deer7 obs
- mountain laurel7 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/43438129
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 20 mi
- Longmeadow · 25 mi
- Blandford · 27 mi
- Somers · 28 mi
- Tolland · 28 mi
- Berkshires · 29 mi
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