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Diamond Hill Park

Diamond Hill Park from directly overhead

Diamond Hill Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 75 m. Lindsley Hill stands 312 m to the northwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Dossin Park Beach, a beach 0.7 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 23 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
75 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.52343, -72.85205

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Red Bridge: 0.7 mi
  • City of Meriden World War II Roll of Honor: 3.1 mi
  • City of Meriden World War II Roll of Honor: 3.1 mi
  • City of Meriden World War II Roll of Honor: 3.1 mi
  • City of Meriden WWII Roll of Honor: 3.2 mi
Parks
Museums
Gardens
Peaks
Waterfalls
  • Spruce Glen Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Roaring Brook Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 6.2 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 6.2 mi
Attractions: 57
  • 1954: 6.2 mi
  • Washington Trail monument: 7.7 mi
  • Libby's Lump: 8.3 mi
  • Selectmen's Stones: 10.9 mi
  • Middletown-Durham boundary stone: 10.9 mi
Artworks: 55
  • Maori Head: 9.6 mi
  • First Tear: 9.7 mi
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 10.1 mi
  • Ben Franklin: 10.2 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 10.2 mi
Beaches: 50
Cliffs: 21
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 4.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 5.8 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 6.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.6 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.7 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Picnic Grove: 12.4 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 23.9 mi
  • Pond View: 24.5 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 24.6 mi
  • Oak Grove: 25.0 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Diamond Hill Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lindsley HillNW 320°312 m9.0 mi
West PeakN 9°301 m2.7 mi
Compounce MountainNNW 329°290 m8.8 mi
Southington MountainNW 317°281 m7.2 mi
East PeakNNE 19°277 m2.5 mi
Higby MountainENE 71°272 m6.1 mi
Mount SanfordSW 230°263 m6.6 mi
Turkey HillW 270°263 m7.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:51
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, 2 mi away.

  • Mute Swan25 obs
  • Common Merganser17 obs
  • Bald Eagle16 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull12 obs
  • Canada Goose12 obs
  • Mallard11 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle10 obs
  • ground-ivy10 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 node/359284484

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