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Club Island Park

Club Island Park from directly overhead

Club Island Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 270 m. Wangum Lake Hill stands 521 m to the west-northwest, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Reaching Hill Road Preserve, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
270 m
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Coordinates41.90065, -73.09511

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Peaks
Museums
Historic sites
Waterfalls: 57
Attractions: 47
  • 4 towns meet: 2.3 mi
  • Charcoal mound exhibit: 5.3 mi
  • Lighthouse cemetery: 5.4 mi
  • Army Corps of Engineers benchmark: 8.1 mi
  • Indian Council Caves: 9.2 mi
Gardens: 45
  • Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 11.4 mi
  • Southwick Community Garden: 17.0 mi
  • Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 17.7 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 18.8 mi
  • Perennial Garden: 19.1 mi
Artworks: 44
Cliffs: 26
  • Winsted Cliffs: 1.6 mi
  • Queen Mary Ledge: 7.7 mi
  • Hornet's Nest: 8.9 mi
  • The Beech: 11.7 mi
  • Space Invaders: 11.8 mi
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Cannavo Spring: 1.4 mi
  • Hermit spring: 3.1 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Big Spring: 6.0 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 18.7 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 22.6 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Southington Rest Area: 24.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Club Island Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wangum Lake HillWNW 300°521 m9.7 mi
Haystack MountainNW 321°510 m9.3 mi
Dutton MountainNW 316°506 m7.3 mi
Ivy MountainWSW 253°504 m6.9 mi
The MatterhornWNW 291°498 m8.8 mi
Dennis HillWNW 302°496 m6.3 mi
Sedgwick MountainW 259°495 m9.5 mi
Brass MountainWSW 249°491 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:1819:5020:32
September equinox06:4018:1518:52
December solstice07:1815:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242634465765706861493930
Precip in3.93.54.64.44.14.94.34.85.05.44.25.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bakersville, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Japanese knotweed24 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee10 obs
  • House Sparrow8 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle7 obs
  • Great Blue Heron6 obs
  • Mallard6 obs
  • American Black Bear6 obs
  • Monarch6 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 node/359281164

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