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Cheshire Park

Cheshire Park from directly overhead

Cheshire Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 63 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the north-northwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum, a museum 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Cheshire
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.52414, -72.89384
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
  • Gateway Park: 0.7 mi
  • Copper Valley Club: 0.9 mi
  • McNamara Field: 1.1 mi
  • Quinnipiac Recreation Area: 1.4 mi
  • The Church Green: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Gardens
  • Butterfly Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Wallingford Community Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 9.0 mi
  • Sustainable Garden: 9.3 mi
  • Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 9.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Red Bridge: 2.9 mi
  • Rochambeau Monument: 3.5 mi
  • Maribeth McCarthy Demma: 3.5 mi
  • City of Meriden World War II Roll of Honor: 5.3 mi
  • City of Meriden World War II Roll of Honor: 5.3 mi
Waterfalls
  • Roaring Brook Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Cascade: 3.8 mi
  • Spruce Glen Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 5.9 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 6.0 mi
Attractions: 59
  • Libby's Lump: 7.3 mi
  • 1954: 8.2 mi
  • Washington Trail monument: 9.5 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 11.6 mi
  • Hospital Rock: 12.1 mi
Artworks: 56
  • Maori Head: 7.5 mi
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 8.0 mi
  • Ben Franklin: 8.1 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 8.1 mi
  • Home: 11.4 mi
Beaches: 49
Cliffs: 21
Picnic sites: 6
  • Picnic Grove: 10.8 mi
  • Pond View: 22.8 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 22.9 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 23.1 mi
  • Oak Grove: 23.3 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 3.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 7.4 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 8.1 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 18.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 18.7 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Cheshire Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainNNW 342°313 m9.0 mi
Lindsley HillNNW 332°312 m7.8 mi
Clinton HillNW 318°303 m8.8 mi
West PeakNE 44°301 m3.7 mi
Becar HillNW 324°297 m8.3 mi
Compounce MountainNNW 343°290 m7.8 mi
Southington MountainNNW 332°281 m5.9 mi
East PeakNE 53°277 m3.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1515:4116:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black Swallowtail18 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk16 obs
  • Painted Turtle16 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee16 obs
  • Huron Skipper15 obs
  • Wood Duck11 obs
  • Monarch10 obs
  • Pearl Crescent10 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/43440831

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