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Lafayette Park

Lafayette Park from directly overhead

Lafayette Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. Chestnut Hill stands 332 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Enfield Town Green, a park 0.4 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 19 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

The record

What the record says

Elevation
17 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Enfield
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.00548, -72.59565

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Enfield Town Green: 0.4 mi
  • D'Aleo Park: 0.4 mi
  • Brainard Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
  • Greenwood Park: 2.1 mi
  • Whitacres Park: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums
Historic sites
  • Kotchen Quadrangle: 3.1 mi
  • Suffield Academy Bell: 3.2 mi
  • Veterans' Memorial: 3.3 mi
  • E. Alexander Bergstrom: 4.4 mi
  • Omiskanoagwiah: 4.7 mi
Gardens
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Side Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Front Garden: 3.9 mi
  • Front Garden: 3.9 mi
Artworks
  • The Three Graces: 4.9 mi
  • Freedom Eagle: 6.0 mi
  • Miles Morgan: 6.6 mi
  • 1856 City Hall Bell: 6.6 mi
  • Birdicus Gigantium: 6.7 mi
Attractions: 47
  • New England Sky Screamer: 2.7 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 6.3 mi
  • A-3B "Skywarrior": 6.4 mi
  • C-7A "Caribou": 6.4 mi
  • Springfield Museums: 6.8 mi
Waterfalls: 38
  • Hockanum Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Cascade: 12.6 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 13.7 mi
  • Carpenter's Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Lost Acres Falls: 14.2 mi
Cliffs: 24
  • Indian Leap: 12.1 mi
  • Flag Rock: 16.7 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 18.6 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 18.6 mi
  • Garden Wall: 18.7 mi
Beaches: 9
Springs: 5
  • Rd: 13.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 13.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 13.4 mi
  • Big Spring: 21.2 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 21.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 2.6 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 9.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 17.2 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 17.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Lafayette Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chestnut HillE 91°332 m12.3 mi
Sodom MountainWNW 287°326 m12.9 mi
Rattlesnake HillE 79°323 m9.8 mi
Bald MountainE 96°322 m9.5 mi
Pine MountainENE 75°319 m10.2 mi
Soapstone MountainESE 109°315 m9.9 mi
Bald MountainENE 78°303 m10.2 mi
Perkins MountainE 82°298 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3818:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3716:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F273038506069747365534233
Precip in3.33.13.83.93.84.34.24.24.44.53.54.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Red Clover25 obs
  • white clover23 obs
  • garlic mustard19 obs
  • American Robin17 obs
  • eastern poison ivy15 obs
  • House Sparrow14 obs
  • American Beaver14 obs
  • ribwort plantain14 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/43441114

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