Barnes Field
Barnes Field is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 74 m. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the northwest, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Kern Park, a park 0.9 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 74 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Kern Park: 0.9 mi
- Page Park: 1.1 mi
- Seymour Park: 1.5 mi
- Wilson Playground: 1.6 mi
- Carrington Park: 2.0 mi
- Town Conservation Land (Brook Street): 1.0 mi
- Pigeon Hill Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Barnes Nature Center Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Pigeon Hill Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Town Open Space (Cope Farms Subdiv.) 3 Parcels: 1.8 mi
- Round Hill: 1.1 mi
- Federal Hill: 1.3 mi
- Hurley Hill: 1.4 mi
- Campground Hill: 1.7 mi
- West Hill: 2.2 mi
- American Clock and Watch Museum: 1.7 mi
- Bristol Memorial Military Museum: 2.1 mi
- Museum of Fire History: 2.1 mi
- New England Carousel Museum: 2.1 mi
- Imagine Nation Children's Museum: 2.4 mi
- Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 2.8 mi
- Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 2.8 mi
- Vincent H. Core Memorial: 3.2 mi
- James P. Casey plaque: 4.0 mi
- plinth: 4.5 mi
- Lamothe Sugar House: 2.8 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 3.3 mi
- Tory's Den: 4.3 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 4.5 mi
- Carousel: 4.7 mi
- Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 2.9 mi
- Whigville Falls: 3.1 mi
- Cascades: 3.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 5.8 mi
- Seven Steps Falls: 5.9 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 4.0 mi
- Sunken Garden: 5.3 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 9.0 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 10.1 mi
- 5-Sense Garden: 10.1 mi
- Home: 7.5 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 10.2 mi
- CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 10.8 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 11.4 mi
- Painted Cow: 11.6 mi
- Petro Cliffs: 4.1 mi
- Ravens Roost: 4.2 mi
- Green Wall: 4.5 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 4.5 mi
- South Wall: 7.8 mi
- Boating Side: 7.7 mi
- Waterfront: 7.7 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 9.9 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 12.9 mi
- Sandy Beach: 15.0 mi
- Hermit spring: 13.7 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 16.1 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 17.1 mi
- Big Spring: 18.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 8.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.5 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 18.0 mi
- Dudley Town: 23.5 mi
- Gay City State Park: 24.8 mi
- Picnic Grove: 7.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Barnes Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnnycake Mountain | NW 315° | 354 m | 5.4 mi |
| South Mountain | SSW 203° | 313 m | 3.7 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | SSW 204° | 312 m | 5.7 mi |
| Harmony Hill | NW 314° | 304 m | 9.3 mi |
| Clinton Hill | SW 220° | 303 m | 7.2 mi |
| Scranton Mountain | NNW 331° | 300 m | 5.0 mi |
| Mount Hope | WNW 293° | 297 m | 2.9 mi |
| Becar Hill | SSW 213° | 297 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 7 mi away.
- eastern white pine19 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage16 obs
- Canada mayflower15 obs
- yellow trout lily14 obs
- mapleleaf viburnum13 obs
- mountain laurel12 obs
- partridgeberry12 obs
- black cherry11 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/1018382411
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 24 mi
- Longmeadow · 30 mi
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