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Crowell Playground

Crowell Playground from directly overhead

Crowell Playground is a park in Vermont, at a recorded elevation of 122 m. Jolly Mountain stands 615 m to the west-southwest, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Lynch Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Molly Stark Scenic Byway runs past it.

What the record says

Elevation
122 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.85164, -72.56727

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lynch Park: 0.2 mi
  • Pliny Park: 0.4 mi
  • Brattleboro Common: 0.5 mi
  • Whetsone Park: 0.7 mi
  • Creamery Bridge Park: 0.9 mi
Museums: 28
Cliffs: 21
  • Mine Ledge: 1.6 mi
  • Table Rock: 14.4 mi
  • Mine Ledge: 15.3 mi
  • Troy Cliffs: 16.9 mi
  • Rose Ledge Upper Tier: 18.1 mi
Historic sites: 20
  • Hinsdale Raceway: 3.4 mi
  • Massachusetts-Vermont Border Monument: 9.9 mi
  • New Hampshire/Vermont/Massachusetts Tri-State Granite Marker: 10.2 mi
  • Oya Hill: 15.3 mi
  • Gravity Foundation Monument: 15.4 mi
Attractions: 16
  • Parrish Shoes Sign (Jumanji): 15.7 mi
  • Wolves Den: 17.4 mi
  • rock overhang: 17.4 mi
  • rock scramble: 17.5 mi
  • hole in wall: 17.6 mi
Artworks: 11
  • Reaching: 15.4 mi
  • Molly Stark: 15.5 mi
  • Aurora: 15.5 mi
  • Trinity Bicycle Shop: 15.5 mi
  • Baseball: 15.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
Beaches: 7
  • Green Mountain Beach: 12.7 mi
  • The Ledges: 15.6 mi
  • Richmond Town Beach at Cass Pond: 17.2 mi
  • Fitzwilliam Town Beach on Laurel Lake: 22.7 mi
  • Corona Beach: 23.3 mi
Covered bridges: 5
Picnic sites: 3
Gardens: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Falcon Spring: 24.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Crowell Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Jolly MountainWSW 237°615 m9.4 mi
Lyman HillW 273°607 m8.3 mi
Central MountainW 279°607 m9.0 mi
Chase HillWSW 256°567 m7.4 mi
Dummerston HillNW 305°500 m6.2 mi
Governors MountainWSW 251°497 m5.4 mi
French HillSW 225°473 m8.5 mi
Deer HillNW 310°465 m10.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2519:03
June solstice05:1319:5020:33
September equinox06:3818:1218:50
December solstice07:1915:3416:20

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202331435564696860483727
Precip in3.12.83.43.43.84.44.54.34.34.93.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Keene, 14 mi away.

  • Bald Eagle102 obs
  • Asian bittersweet96 obs
  • Japanese knotweed79 obs
  • alder buckthorn76 obs
  • American lotus74 obs
  • multiflora rose64 obs
  • Mallard61 obs
  • Japanese barberry59 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/466382055

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