Beacon Falls Town Recreation Field
Beacon Falls Town Recreation Field is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 45 m. Great Hill stands 292 m to the north-northwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Beacon Falls Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 14 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 45 m
How to reach it
- 13.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Beacon Falls Open Space: 0.3 mi
- Matthies Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
- Lantern Ridge Open Space: 1.7 mi
- Little River Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Mendell's Folly Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Volunteer Park: 0.5 mi
- Victory Memorial Park: 2.1 mi
- Cotton Hollow Field: 2.2 mi
- Fairchild Park: 2.4 mi
- Andrew Mountain Park: 2.5 mi
- Tobys Rock Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 1.1 mi
- Sanford Hill: 1.4 mi
- Rock Rimmon: 1.4 mi
- Hunters Mountain: 1.7 mi
- The Cherry Blossom Tree: 3.2 mi
- Soldiers' Monument: 3.4 mi
- Fountain: 3.4 mi
- Peter and Valerie Aiksnoras: 4.2 mi
- Charcoal Hearth Site: 6.7 mi
- Seymour Historical Society Museum: 3.5 mi
- Naugatuck History Museum at the Tuttle House: 3.7 mi
- Middlebury Historical Society: 6.3 mi
- Osborne Homestead Museum: 7.9 mi
- Mattatuck Museum: 8.0 mi
- Jackson Cove Beach: 6.4 mi
- Zoar Beach: 6.8 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 10.0 mi
- Waterfront: 13.2 mi
- Boating Side: 13.2 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 1.1 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 1.1 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 1.1 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 1.1 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 1.2 mi
- Bethany Community Garden: 3.5 mi
- Melanie Rieger Victims of Violent Crimes Memorial Garden: 7.2 mi
- Poet's Circle: 7.3 mi
- Biblical Garden: 7.3 mi
- Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 7.3 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 3.5 mi
- Millstone: 4.8 mi
- Millstone: 4.8 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 13.1 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 13.4 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 7.7 mi
- Maori Head: 7.8 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 7.8 mi
- Ben Franklin: 7.8 mi
- End of the Line/West Rock: 10.0 mi
- Bethel Rock: 9.4 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 12.3 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 13.8 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 15.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 17.7 mi
- Pond View: 12.1 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 12.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 12.6 mi
- Cedar Grove: 12.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 13.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 11.4 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 11.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 12.5 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 15.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.8 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 19.9 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 20.2 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 20.2 mi
- Fog Signal House: 20.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.8 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 20.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.0 miles of Beacon Falls Town Recreation Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hill | NNW 333° | 292 m | 7.0 mi |
| Andrews Hill | NNW 343° | 275 m | 2.9 mi |
| Woodruff Hill | NW 321° | 273 m | 4.1 mi |
| Mount Sanford | E 79° | 263 m | 6.6 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NE 36° | 263 m | 6.7 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NE 50° | 260 m | 6.4 mi |
| Hopkins Hill | NE 48° | 259 m | 4.5 mi |
| Prospect Mountain | ENE 69° | 253 m | 5.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:42 | 16:26 |
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 | 37 | 48 | 58 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ansonia 1 NE, 7 mi away.
- pink lady's slipper32 obs
- mountain laurel23 obs
- American wintergreen20 obs
- Eastern Newt19 obs
- partridgeberry18 obs
- hay-scented fern17 obs
- striped wintergreen16 obs
- Pickerel Frog15 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/43437448
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