Great Oak Park
Great Oak Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 116 m. Cranson Peak stands 303 m to the northwest, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Old Village Lane), a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.4 miles off.
How to reach it
- 2.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Town Open Space (Old Village Lane): 0.3 mi
- Parlor Rock Park: 1.3 mi
- Pequonnock Valley Wildlife Management Area: 1.4 mi
- Town Park (Riverside Drive): 1.5 mi
- Town Open Space (Deer Run Drive): 1.7 mi
- Tashua Hill: 0.6 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 2.0 mi
- Sport Hill: 2.2 mi
- Round Hill: 2.4 mi
- Rock Raymond: 2.4 mi
- Long Hill Green: 1.1 mi
- Indian Ledge Park: 1.5 mi
- Davidow Park: 1.6 mi
- Pond View Park: 1.6 mi
- Tashua Recreation Area: 1.7 mi
- Robert G. Beach Memorial Park World War II Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Tree Stump Monument: 3.8 mi
- Jean Wells Wallace: 5.2 mi
- Trout Brook Valley Nature Preserve Honor Roll of Contributors: 5.2 mi
- Warrens Occult Museum: 3.5 mi
- Discovery Museum and Planetarium: 3.6 mi
- Trumbull Historical Society: 4.4 mi
- Housatonic Museum of Art: 6.8 mi
- Barnum Museum: 6.8 mi
- Lake Mohegan Beach: 4.4 mi
- Seaside Beach: 7.7 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 8.3 mi
- Money Beach: 8.4 mi
- Jennings Beach: 8.6 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 5.5 mi
- Eklund Garden: 6.7 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 6.8 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 7.1 mi
- SIS Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- Devil's Glen Falls: 5.7 mi
- Cascade: 5.8 mi
- Poverty Hollow Falls: 5.8 mi
- Cascade: 6.2 mi
- Cascades: 6.3 mi
- Heron: 3.3 mi
- Mother Mary: 4.0 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 5.5 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 7.1 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 7.1 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 1.7 mi
- 3-town marker: 6.6 mi
- Burr Homestead: 8.6 mi
- Earthplace: 10.9 mi
- Weir House: 11.2 mi
- Cedar Grove: 3.0 mi
- Oak Grove: 3.3 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 3.4 mi
- Pond View: 3.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 4.9 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 14.6 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 17.1 mi
- Indian Rock Shelter: 17.5 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 17.8 mi
- Castle Rock: 18.0 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 7.6 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 10.7 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 10.7 mi
- Fog Signal House: 10.7 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 14.7 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 10.1 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 10.1 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 16.0 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 16.0 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 16.7 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 8.2 mi
- Cuties Island: 21.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 13.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 17.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Great Oak Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cranson Peak | NW 323° | 303 m | 8.3 mi |
| Sunset Hill | NW 308° | 253 m | 8.0 mi |
| Eden Hill | NW 321° | 240 m | 6.0 mi |
| Redding Ridge | WNW 301° | 214 m | 6.8 mi |
| Goodsell Hill | W 270° | 211 m | 9.0 mi |
| Osborn Hill | N 9° | 206 m | 9.2 mi |
| Huckleberry Hill | W 274° | 204 m | 8.5 mi |
| Meekers Hill | WNW 300° | 203 m | 6.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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, 9 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer19 obs
- Pickerel Frog15 obs
- American Toad13 obs
- striped wintergreen12 obs
- winged euonymus12 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle10 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit10 obs
- sassafras10 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/43398829
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 20 mi
- Port Chester · 29 mi
- Purchase · 29 mi
- Putnam County · 29 mi
- Rye Brook · 29 mi
- Bayville · 30 mi
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