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Davenport Playground

Davenport Playground from directly overhead

Davenport Playground is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Burwell Hill, a peak 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 4.4 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
2 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.22093, -73.01455

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Burwell Hill: 0.2 mi
  • Clark Hill: 0.4 mi
  • Eels Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 0.8 mi
Beaches
Parks
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 2.2 mi
  • Ward Heitmann House Museum: 5.0 mi
  • Americana Museum: 5.1 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 5.1 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 5.1 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens: 50
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 2.4 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 5.1 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 6.4 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 6.4 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Farmill River Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Cascade: 5.7 mi
  • Cascades: 6.9 mi
  • Cascade: 7.6 mi
  • Wintergreen Falls: 9.0 mi
Artworks: 24
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 5.1 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 5.1 mi
  • An American Dream: 7.0 mi
  • John B Pierce: 7.0 mi
  • Beacon of Hope: 8.2 mi
Attractions: 17
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 3.1 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 8.8 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 12.0 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.4 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 13.5 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 8.7 mi
  • Pond View: 13.2 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 13.3 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 13.5 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Cliffs: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.4 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.5 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 25.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Davenport Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 332°202 m11.2 mi
Barn HillNW 314°200 m12.3 mi
Moose HillNW 308°198 m12.6 mi
Israel HillNW 311°192 m11.4 mi
Round HillN 3°190 m11.5 mi
Upper White HillsNW 320°188 m11.6 mi
Peck HillN 355°183 m10.9 mi
Tashua HillWNW 283°179 m12.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:2019:4720:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313239495968747366554536
Precip in2.72.83.74.23.53.53.43.64.03.83.13.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Herring Gull37 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly34 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel23 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull19 obs
  • Red Fox15 obs
  • Osprey14 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle13 obs
  • Common Periwinkle10 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/359284450

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