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Beachland Park

Beachland Park from directly overhead

Beachland Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 19 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the north-northwest, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Glover Soccer Park, a park 0.4 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.73686, -72.73299

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Attractions: 60
Waterfalls
  • Mill Pond Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 7.9 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 8.1 mi
  • Cascades: 9.2 mi
  • Westfield Falls: 10.8 mi
Artworks: 46
Cliffs: 19
  • South Wall: 4.0 mi
  • Solar Panel: 4.0 mi
  • Superstructure: 4.0 mi
  • Garden Wall: 4.6 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 4.7 mi
Beaches: 11
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.6 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 14.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 19.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 24.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 24.9 mi
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 18.8 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 18.9 mi
  • Big Spring: 20.4 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 21.6 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 17.5 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Beachland Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Talcott MountainNNW 327°276 m6.2 mi
Taine MountainWNW 281°268 m9.6 mi
Wildcat MountainW 275°262 m10.6 mi
Ely MoundNW 317°246 m5.2 mi
Mount HorrNW 308°238 m10.6 mi
Rattlesnake MountainWSW 243°229 m5.6 mi
Huckleberry HillWNW 300°223 m10.2 mi
Ragged MountainSSW 209°217 m9.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 4 mi away.

  • American Robin29 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk22 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee20 obs
  • House Sparrow16 obs
  • American pokeweed16 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail15 obs
  • common reed15 obs
  • multiflora rose15 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43439425

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