Bel-Aire Playground
Bel-Aire Playground is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 31 m. Wintechog Hill stands 139 m to the north-northeast, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Merritt Family Forest, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 9.3 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 31 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 9.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 17.3 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 18.5 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 19.0 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Merritt Family Forest: 0.4 mi
- Clipper Court Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Windwood Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Pequot Woods Park: 0.9 mi
- Beebe Pond Park: 1.0 mi
- Fort Hill: 0.7 mi
- Hazelnut Hill: 1.3 mi
- Pequot Hill: 1.4 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.8 mi
- Shack Hill: 2.8 mi
- Crosswinds: 1.2 mi
- Historic Site of Pequot War Massacre: 1.3 mi
- Sutton Park: 1.3 mi
- Poquonnock Plains Park: 1.3 mi
- Central Avenue Park: 1.4 mi
- Haley Farm Barn: 1.5 mi
- Noank Remembers Memorial Bell: 1.6 mi
- Master Shipbuilders: 1.9 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan: 2.0 mi
- Mystic Museum of Art: 1.5 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 1.9 mi
- Children's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Thompson Exhibition Building: 2.0 mi
- Sylvan Street Museum & Research Center/Mary C. Anderson Building: 2.1 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 1.9 mi
- Groton Beach: 2.1 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 2.2 mi
- Williams Beach: 2.2 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 2.7 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 3.6 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 4.0 mi
- The Whale: 4.8 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 5.5 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 5.5 mi
- Cascade: 0.9 mi
- Cascade: 1.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 12.0 mi
- Yantic Falls: 13.2 mi
- Cascade: 19.7 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 1.5 mi
- Mystic Blue: 2.0 mi
- Mjolnir: 2.6 mi
- Giant Gnome: 2.6 mi
- Penguin: 2.9 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 5.4 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 5.5 mi
- Sprout Garden: 5.9 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 5.9 mi
- Azalea Garden: 5.9 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 18.5 mi
- Crow Head: 18.9 mi
- Ram Head: 23.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 24.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 24.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 2.0 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 10.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 22.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.8 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 8.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 8.2 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 8.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 8.2 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 18.8 mi
- Skate Hut: 6.1 mi
- Powder House: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 17.4 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 17.5 mi
- Old Spring: 4.6 mi
- Factory Pond: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Bel-Aire Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wintechog Hill | NNE 28° | 139 m | 8.3 mi |
| Church Hill | N 360° | 120 m | 7.1 mi |
| Lantern Hill | NNE 22° | 118 m | 7.9 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | NW 320° | 108 m | 4.3 mi |
| Vinegar Hill | NNW 330° | 108 m | 5.6 mi |
| Haughton Mountain | NW 319° | 103 m | 8.5 mi |
| Jeremy Hill | NE 47° | 101 m | 7.0 mi |
| Great Hill | WNW 291° | 99 m | 8.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage40 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee40 obs
- Huron Skipper36 obs
- American wintergreen35 obs
- Monarch33 obs
- striped wintergreen30 obs
- Canada mayflower29 obs
- wineberry28 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/933077406
Day trips start here
- Groton · 2 mi
- Mystic · 2 mi
- New London · 5 mi
- Stonington · 5 mi
- Ledyard · 6 mi
- Watch Hill · 8 mi
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