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East River Wildlife Area

East River Wildlife Area from directly overhead

East River Wildlife Area is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Fowler Mountain stands 230 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Cedar Island, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 18 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
2 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.27510, -72.64926

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Beaches
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Clapboard Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Green Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Hungry Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Huzzle Guzzle Hill: 3.9 mi
Museums
Gardens: 42
Waterfalls: 41
  • Cascade: 3.2 mi
  • Nineveh Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Stair Brook Falls: 11.0 mi
  • Clark Creek Falls: 14.8 mi
  • Cascade: 15.7 mi
Attractions: 30
  • Dinosaur Rock: 3.5 mi
  • Bear Cave: 7.8 mi
  • Lavender Pond Farm: 8.2 mi
  • Dodge Dump Truck: 9.0 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 10.6 mi
Artworks: 19
Cliffs: 7
Rest areas: 6
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 11.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 14.5 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.9 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 20.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 20.7 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 21.1 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 21.4 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 24.8 mi
Springs: 1
Lighthouses: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of East River Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Fowler MountainNNW 338°230 m12.5 mi
Pistapaug MountainNNW 337°210 m11.7 mi
Goose HillNNE 20°201 m12.4 mi
Mount PisgahN 354°196 m11.9 mi
Totoket MountainNW 324°176 m10.4 mi
Quonnipaug MountainNNW 342°167 m8.7 mi
East SugarloafNNW 329°156 m8.1 mi
Bunker HillN 6°153 m10.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1819:4620:28
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1415:4116:25

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, 13 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Osprey28 obs
  • Eastern Oyster27 obs
  • American Herring Gull27 obs
  • American Oystercatcher23 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab22 obs
  • Great Egret20 obs
  • Monarch17 obs
  • Atlantic Ribbed Mussel17 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/359284547

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