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Stony Brook Park

Stony Brook Park from directly overhead

Stony Brook Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 37 m. South Mountain stands 357 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is King House Museum, a museum 0.4 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 18 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
37 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.97710, -72.65990

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Gardens
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Back Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Side Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Front Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 0.8 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Veterans' Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • Suffield Academy Bell: 0.7 mi
  • Kotchen Quadrangle: 0.8 mi
  • E. Alexander Bergstrom: 2.4 mi
  • Connecticut Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 2.5 mi
Peaks
Parks
Artworks
  • Freedom Eagle: 7.4 mi
  • The Three Graces: 8.0 mi
  • 1856 City Hall Bell: 9.3 mi
  • Miles Morgan: 9.3 mi
  • Birdicus Gigantium: 9.4 mi
Attractions: 50
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 2.6 mi
  • A-3B "Skywarrior": 2.6 mi
  • C-7A "Caribou": 2.6 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 5.0 mi
  • Smaug's Lair sign: 6.2 mi
Waterfalls: 44
Cliffs: 25
  • Hart Meadow: 15.2 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 15.3 mi
  • Garden Wall: 15.3 mi
  • Indian Leap: 15.5 mi
  • Superstructure: 16.2 mi
Beaches: 10
Springs: 7
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 15.0 mi
  • Rd: 15.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 15.0 mi
  • Big Spring: 17.6 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 17.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 5.1 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 12.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 19.5 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Stony Brook Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainWNW 293°357 m11.8 mi
Drake MountainNW 314°350 m12.7 mi
Bad Luck MountainWNW 303°347 m12.8 mi
Sodom MountainWNW 302°326 m10.7 mi
Pine ConeW 260°323 m11.0 mi
Bald MountainE 85°322 m12.8 mi
Soapstone MountainE 96°315 m12.8 mi
West LedgeWSW 243°305 m12.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

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, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • multiflora rose19 obs
  • Red Clover12 obs
  • ground-ivy10 obs
  • Wood Frog10 obs
  • sensitive fern10 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel9 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage9 obs
  • common mugwort9 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/43438372

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