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Dennis Hill State Park

Dennis Hill State Park from directly overhead

Dennis Hill State Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 496 m. Bradford Mountain stands 584 m to the west-northwest, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Dennis Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 21 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
496 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.95057, -73.20035

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
Nature reserves
Waterfalls: 56
Museums: 50
Historic sites: 46
Attractions: 41
  • Beckley Furnace: 6.3 mi
  • 4 towns meet: 8.7 mi
  • Army Corps of Engineers benchmark: 9.5 mi
  • Lighthouse cemetery: 10.0 mi
  • Giant's Thumb: 10.2 mi
Cliffs: 25
  • Winsted Cliffs: 7.3 mi
  • The Beech: 10.7 mi
  • Space Invaders: 10.7 mi
  • Cloud Buttress: 10.7 mi
  • Squirrel Wall: 10.7 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Newsboy Statue: 18.3 mi
  • Liebowitz Letter: 20.2 mi
  • Naked Lady: 20.2 mi
  • Bike Sculpture: 21.1 mi
  • Divine Mercy: 24.0 mi
Gardens: 15
  • Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 14.6 mi
  • Flower Gardens: 17.8 mi
  • Herb Gardens: 17.9 mi
  • Heritage Garden: 17.9 mi
  • Judea Garden: 19.8 mi
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Cannavo Spring: 6.8 mi
  • Hermit spring: 9.5 mi
  • Big Spring: 10.2 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 10.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 16.2 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Covered bridges: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Dennis Hill State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bradford MountainWNW 299°584 m5.5 mi
Bald MountainN 351°539 m5.4 mi
Stone Man MountainW 276°528 m4.3 mi
Wangum Lake HillWNW 295°521 m3.3 mi
East Bald MountainN 1°519 m5.5 mi
Haystack MountainN 354°510 m3.8 mi
Dutton MountainN 9°506 m1.8 mi
Ivy MountainSSW 192°504 m5.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:1819:5020:32
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1815:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445564696760483828
Precip in4.03.34.23.94.15.04.84.74.95.14.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk 2 SW, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Newt18 obs
  • Yellowish Cuckoo Bumble bee11 obs
  • Ghost Pipe9 obs
  • American Toad9 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee9 obs
  • sensitive fern8 obs
  • striped maple7 obs
  • mountain laurel7 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/68309299

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