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Center Spring Pond Park

Center Spring Pond Park from directly overhead

Center Spring Pond Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 63 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Academy Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 28 miles off.

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How to reach it

Coordinates41.77688, -72.52381

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Waterfalls
  • Center Springs Falls: 0.1 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 1.9 mi
  • Case Falls: 2.0 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 3.7 mi
  • Blackledge Falls: 6.2 mi
Parks
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Center Park: 0.2 mi
  • Spruce Street Community Garden: 0.6 mi
  • Attawanhood Park: 0.7 mi
  • Munro Park: 0.7 mi
Museums
Artworks
Historic sites
Attractions: 58
  • Nike Missile Site: 2.8 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 5.0 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 5.1 mi
  • filled-in well: 5.5 mi
  • Car Wreck: 6.5 mi
Gardens: 56
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Growing Roots Community Garden: 5.3 mi
Cliffs: 16
  • Flag Rock: 4.0 mi
  • Crow Point: 6.8 mi
  • Garden Wall: 14.2 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 14.2 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 14.2 mi
Beaches: 7
Rest areas: 4
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 14.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 14.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.1 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 24.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 17.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 18.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Center Spring Pond Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillNE 45°294 m10.1 mi
Grant HillENE 68°284 m7.6 mi
Sugar HillNE 44°282 m11.3 mi
Reed HillNE 53°275 m7.8 mi
MannantuckSSE 151°273 m5.4 mi
John Tom HillSSE 151°272 m5.4 mi
Meshomasic MountainS 185°265 m10.2 mi
Box HillENE 64°252 m4.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2619:02
June solstice05:1619:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1515:3816:23

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, 7 mi away.

  • garlic mustard37 obs
  • striped wintergreen25 obs
  • Japanese knotweed22 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk21 obs
  • American pokeweed20 obs
  • common mugwort18 obs
  • winged euonymus18 obs
  • Great Blue Heron17 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/43440415

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