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Center Green

Center Green from directly overhead

Center Green is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east-northeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Academy Hall Museum, a museum 0.3 miles away.

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Rocky Hill

How to reach it

Coordinates41.66167, -72.63886

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 0.4 mi
  • Graffiti Arches: 0.7 mi
  • Wells and Wilcox Manufacturing 1870-1910: 1.1 mi
  • Bulkeley Corne Mill 1680-1830: 1.1 mi
  • Billings Manufacturing 1884: 1.1 mi
Parks
  • Dr. Barbara Orsini Surwilo Park: 0.5 mi
  • Shipyard Park: 0.5 mi
  • Ferry Park: 0.6 mi
  • Ferry Landing Park: 0.7 mi
  • Harvey Fuller Grounds: 1.9 mi
Peaks
Waterfalls
Attractions
  • Constitution Oak: 3.5 mi
  • Come On Over Wall: 6.4 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 6.5 mi
  • State Forest Quarry #1: 6.8 mi
  • Nathan Hall Quarry: 6.9 mi
Gardens
Artworks
  • CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 4.0 mi
  • Face in Tree: 5.4 mi
  • Frog: 6.7 mi
  • Equality: 6.8 mi
  • Pulaski: 7.1 mi
Cliffs: 22
Beaches: 8
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.2 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 15.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 15.7 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 23.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 23.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 20.9 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 23.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Center Green. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckENE 69°273 m9.2 mi
Meshomasic MountainESE 114°265 m5.4 mi
Clark HillSE 128°241 m7.4 mi
Kongscut MountainENE 72°234 m7.4 mi
Raccoon HillSE 126°228 m6.0 mi
Great HillSE 143°222 m7.1 mi
Minnechaug MountainNE 56°215 m7.7 mi
Clark HillESE 109°206 m4.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

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, 5 mi away.

  • American wintergreen33 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly30 obs
  • eastern redcedar29 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage28 obs
  • Sweet Pepperbush27 obs
  • sensitive fern26 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee26 obs
  • buttonbush22 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/43442129

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