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Elm Ridge Park

Elm Ridge Park from directly overhead

Elm Ridge Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 46 m. Higby Mountain stands 272 m to the south-southwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Center Green, a park 0.6 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Rocky Hill
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.66001, -72.64932
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Museums
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Graffiti Arches: 1.1 mi
  • Wells and Wilcox Manufacturing 1870-1910: 1.2 mi
  • Bulkeley Corne Mill 1680-1830: 1.2 mi
  • Billings Manufacturing 1884: 1.3 mi
Peaks
Waterfalls
Artworks
  • CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 3.5 mi
  • Face in Tree: 5.9 mi
  • Home: 6.8 mi
  • Equality: 6.9 mi
  • First Tear: 7.0 mi
Attractions
  • Constitution Oak: 3.6 mi
  • Come On Over Wall: 6.3 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 7.0 mi
  • State Forest Quarry #1: 7.1 mi
  • Nathan Hall Quarry: 7.3 mi
Gardens
Cliffs: 21
Beaches: 8
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 8.8 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 14.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 15.4 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 24.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 24.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 20.4 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 23.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Elm Ridge Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Higby MountainSSW 212°272 m8.9 mi
Meshomasic MountainESE 111°265 m5.9 mi
Clark HillSE 125°241 m7.8 mi
Kongscut MountainENE 72°234 m8.0 mi
Raccoon HillESE 123°228 m6.3 mi
Great HillSE 139°222 m7.4 mi
Minnechaug MountainENE 58°215 m8.3 mi
Clark HillESE 106°206 m4.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American wintergreen31 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly30 obs
  • eastern redcedar27 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage26 obs
  • Sweet Pepperbush26 obs
  • sensitive fern25 obs
  • bloodroot22 obs
  • buttonbush22 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/43436758

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