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Williams Park

Williams Park from directly overhead

Williams Park is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 135 m. Beaver Bog Mountain stands 358 m to the west-northwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Gurski Farm Open Space, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 18 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

The record

What the record says

Elevation
135 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Brookfield
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.47100, -73.38700

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Lions Park: 0.6 mi
  • Brookfield Municipal Center: 0.8 mi
  • Kahlo Preserve: 1.1 mi
  • Lake Lillinonah Boat Launch: 2.1 mi
  • Town Open Space (Old Gray's Bridge Road): 2.2 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Museums: 57
Gardens: 47
  • Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 7.1 mi
  • Butterfly Maze: 7.1 mi
  • Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 10.3 mi
  • Personal Gardens: 10.5 mi
  • Garden Of Ideas: 12.5 mi
Waterfalls: 41
  • Quaker Brook Falls: 7.7 mi
  • Lower Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Upper Falls: 8.0 mi
  • Prydden Brook Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Poverty Hollow Falls: 11.3 mi
Beaches: 32
Attractions: 22
Artworks: 15
  • Lesser Evil: 4.3 mi
  • greek letter pi: 5.2 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 7.0 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 9.2 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 11.6 mi
Cliffs: 12
Picnic sites: 8
  • Oak Grove: 13.1 mi
  • Pond View: 13.3 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 13.3 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 13.3 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 17.9 mi
Rest areas: 7
  • Danbury Rest Area: 8.9 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 18.1 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 18.2 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 22.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 22.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Covered bridges: 1
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 16.1 mi
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.3 miles of Williams Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Beaver Bog MountainWNW 286°358 m7.0 mi
Wanzer MountainNW 306°346 m6.9 mi
Green Pond MountainNNW 328°323 m6.6 mi
Briggs HillNW 316°323 m8.0 mi
Titicus MountainWSW 256°313 m6.6 mi
Great MountainNW 324°310 m5.8 mi
Cranson PeakSSE 161°303 m7.9 mi
Candlewood MountainNNW 336°296 m8.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2119:5020:31
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1715:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506069757265534233
Precip in3.73.34.44.24.24.85.04.94.95.04.04.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Hickory Tussock Moth15 obs
  • Monarch11 obs
  • turkey-tail11 obs
  • American Toad11 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee11 obs
  • Gray Treefrog11 obs
  • American Black Bear10 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly10 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/1044280007

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