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Ballard Park

Ballard Park from directly overhead

Ballard Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 218 m. Pine Mountain stands 304 m to the north, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is War Memorial, a historic site 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 10 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
218 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.28406, -73.49925

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
  • Governor Park: 0.4 mi
  • East Ridge Preserve: 0.6 mi
  • East Ridge Fields: 0.7 mi
  • Ridgefield Recreation Center: 1.1 mi
  • West Mountain Refuge: 1.8 mi
Peaks
Museums
Nature reserves
Beaches: 60
  • Mamanasco Beach: 2.7 mi
  • Twixt Hills Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Tonetta Lake Beach: 11.1 mi
  • South Beach: 13.4 mi
  • North Beach: 13.9 mi
Gardens: 56
Artworks: 25
  • Annunaki: 4.6 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 7.5 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 8.9 mi
  • greek letter pi: 9.3 mi
  • Lesser Evil: 9.9 mi
Attractions: 23
Waterfalls: 18
  • Sheep Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Cascade: 4.0 mi
  • Saugatuck Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Cascade: 5.4 mi
  • Cascade: 8.3 mi
Cliffs: 11
Picnic sites: 10
  • Pell Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 4.8 mi
  • The Meadow: 11.2 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 13.2 mi
  • Oak Grove: 13.4 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 7
  • Danbury Rest Area: 7.3 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 11.4 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 11.4 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 21.5 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 21.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 2.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine MountainN 7°304 m4.7 mi
Bailey MountainNW 306°299.314 m3.3 mi
Moses MountainNNE 18°296 m5.5 mi
Barlow MountainN 1°290 m2.9 mi
Thomas MountainNNE 21°286 m6.1 mi
West MountainNW 315°285 m2.0 mi
Ned MountainNNW 347°284 m4.6 mi
Seth Low MountainNNW 347°283 m3.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3019:06
June solstice05:2219:5020:31
September equinox06:4218:1718:53
December solstice07:1715:4416:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272937485867727063524132
Precip in3.12.73.93.73.84.54.54.64.84.53.84.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury Muni AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee32 obs
  • autumn olive26 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage20 obs
  • garlic mustard19 obs
  • American Toad19 obs
  • yellow trout lily18 obs
  • ground-ivy18 obs
  • border privet18 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/43434152

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