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Cedar Park

Cedar Park from directly overhead

Cedar Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 65 m. Great Hill stands 292 m to the west-northwest, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is St. Francis Field, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 17 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
65 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.49341, -73.05413

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • St. Francis Field: 0.1 mi
  • Tuttle House: 0.1 mi
  • Momument (Meadow Street): 0.2 mi
  • Town Green: 0.2 mi
  • Lewis Park: 0.3 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Soldiers' Monument: 0.2 mi
  • Fountain: 0.2 mi
  • Harrub Pilgrim Memorial: 3.8 mi
  • Father McGivney Monument: 4.3 mi
  • Carrie Welton Fountain: 4.4 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Waterfalls: 59
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 2.5 mi
Beaches: 55
  • Mattatuck Beach: 6.7 mi
  • Jackson Cove Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Waterfront: 9.7 mi
  • Boating Side: 9.7 mi
  • Zoar Beach: 10.0 mi
Gardens: 49
Attractions: 43
  • Millstone: 6.3 mi
  • Millstone: 6.3 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 6.5 mi
  • Rock House: 10.2 mi
  • Libby's Lump: 11.1 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 4.1 mi
  • Maori Head: 4.2 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 4.2 mi
  • Ben Franklin: 4.3 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 12.3 mi
Cliffs: 22
  • Bethel Rock: 8.3 mi
  • Whitestone Cliffs: 8.8 mi
  • Satan's Dog Bowl: 10.5 mi
  • Ravens Roost: 15.8 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 15.9 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Picnic Grove: 9.7 mi
  • Pond View: 15.4 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 15.6 mi
  • Oak Grove: 15.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 16.2 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 9.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 14.4 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 14.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 14.8 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 16.6 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.1 miles of Cedar Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillWNW 303°292 m5.1 mi
Blackmans HillWNW 299°282 m6.8 mi
Andrews HillWSW 251°275 m2.0 mi
Woodruff HillW 266°273 m3.6 mi
Turkey HillNE 55°263 m3.5 mi
Mount SanfordESE 112°263 m5.9 mi
Prospect HillE 81°260 m3.9 mi
Hopkins HillE 100°259 m2.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1615:4216:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293138496069747366544334
Precip in3.63.54.44.73.74.93.83.84.34.94.44.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Carmel, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Coral Hairstreak16 obs
  • Red Fox11 obs
  • winged euonymus11 obs
  • multiflora rose10 obs
  • eastern white pine9 obs
  • eastern poison ivy9 obs
  • Edwards' Hairstreak9 obs
  • Mallard8 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/677567826

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