Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park
Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 186 m. Turkey Hill stands 271 m to the northwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Halls Pond Boat Launch, a park 1.3 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 6.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 186 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 14.5 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.8 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 28.4 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Named places within 25 miles
- Halls Pond Boat Launch: 1.3 mi
- Hampton Reservoir Boat Launch: 2.1 mi
- Ashford Town Green: 2.7 mi
- Ivy Glen Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Edward Garrison Park: 3.8 mi
- Sprague Hill: 1.4 mi
- Pumpkin Hill: 2.1 mi
- Snow Hill: 2.3 mi
- Trowbridge Hill: 2.6 mi
- Sherman Hill: 2.7 mi
- Blue Flag Meadow: 2.2 mi
- Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary at Trail Wood: 2.4 mi
- Colts Pond Road Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Pinkham Preserve: 2.8 mi
- H. E. Preston Nature Sanctuary: 2.9 mi
- Wolf Den Plaque: 5.0 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 7.5 mi
- Old root cellar: 7.7 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 8.0 mi
- World War II Veterans Memorial: 8.0 mi
- Marcy Blacksmith Museum: 5.2 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 8.4 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 8.7 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 8.8 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 9.2 mi
- Frog Rock: 2.2 mi
- Bara-Hack Abandoned Village: 4.3 mi
- Bigelow Brook Farm: 5.4 mi
- Wolf Rock: 9.1 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 10.3 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 8.8 mi
- U’s and C’s: 8.8 mi
- Copper Tower: 8.9 mi
- The Fallen: 9.1 mi
- Crisscross XVI: 9.1 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 5.3 mi
- Codfish Falls: 7.6 mi
- Cargill Falls: 10.0 mi
- Cascades: 10.6 mi
- Cascades: 10.7 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 9.2 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 9.3 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 9.3 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 9.4 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 10.4 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 11.2 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 12.4 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 13.7 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 13.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 16.0 mi
- Coney Rock: 7.0 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 7.8 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 9.1 mi
- Flag Rock: 19.2 mi
- Woodward's Rock: 19.3 mi
- Bara-Hack: 4.3 mi
- Gay City State Park: 20.2 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 11.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 11.5 mi
- Windham Spring: 10.4 mi
- Picnic: 11.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey Hill | NW 325° | 271 m | 7.0 mi |
| Ragged Hill | NE 34° | 265 m | 4.6 mi |
| Deacon Tim Perrin Hill | NNE 26° | 265 m | 5.4 mi |
| Rocky Hill | NNE 25° | 264 m | 6.5 mi |
| Daven Hill | NNE 33° | 258 m | 5.8 mi |
| Sprague Hill | NNE 25° | 257 m | 1.4 mi |
| Hammond Hill | NNE 20° | 257 m | 6.8 mi |
| Sherman Hill | NE 42° | 252 m | 2.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:45 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:36 | 16:21 |
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 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hampton, 6 mi away.
- pink lady's slipper17 obs
- Ghost Pipe17 obs
- downy rattlesnake plantain16 obs
- Green Frog12 obs
- American wintergreen10 obs
- northern starflower10 obs
- striped wintergreen9 obs
- dwarf ginseng9 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/80273746
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 9 mi
- Woodstock · 9 mi
- Putnam · 10 mi
- Union · 11 mi
- Willimantic · 11 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 14 mi
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