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Carrington Park

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Carrington Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 92 m. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the west-northwest, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Brookshire Lane), a nature reserve 0.2 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
92 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.70580, -72.88187

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Vincent H. Core Memorial: 1.6 mi
  • plinth: 2.8 mi
  • Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 3.7 mi
  • Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 4.7 mi
  • Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 4.7 mi
Attractions
Waterfalls
  • Whigville Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Cascades: 5.0 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 6.1 mi
  • Seven Steps Falls: 6.2 mi
Gardens: 52
  • Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 2.0 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Wolcott Community Garden: 7.0 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 8.2 mi
  • 5-Sense Garden: 8.2 mi
Artworks: 45
Cliffs: 20
  • Porcupine Hole: 2.5 mi
  • Green Wall: 2.5 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 5.9 mi
  • South Wall: 5.9 mi
  • Solar Panel: 5.9 mi
Beaches: 10
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 14.4 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 16.2 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 17.6 mi
  • Big Spring: 18.2 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 9.3 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.7 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 17.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 9.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Carrington Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Johnnycake MountainWNW 300°354 m6.7 mi
South MountainSW 221°313 m5.2 mi
Lindsley HillSW 217°312 m7.2 mi
Clinton HillSW 227°303 m8.9 mi
Scranton MountainNW 311°300 m5.8 mi
Mount HopeW 278°297 m4.7 mi
Becar HillSW 223°297 m8.0 mi
Pine HillWSW 252°295 m9.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485968737164524233
Precip in3.73.44.24.34.24.84.45.15.05.73.94.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 7 mi away.

  • Coyote96 obs
  • Red Fox68 obs
  • American Black Bear34 obs
  • White-tailed Deer22 obs
  • Virginia Opossum22 obs
  • Common Raccoon18 obs
  • eastern white pine15 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage14 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 node/359289129

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