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Eisenhower Park

Eisenhower Park from directly overhead

Eisenhower Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. Moose Hill stands 231 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Eisenhower Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 1.7 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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City of Milford
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.24775, -73.05911

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Peaks
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 2.0 mi
  • Americana Museum: 2.8 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 2.8 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 2.9 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 5.2 mi
Beaches
  • Gulf Beach: 2.7 mi
  • Fort Trumbull Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Silver Beach: 3.1 mi
  • Bayview Beach: 3.2 mi
  • Pond Point Beach: 3.3 mi
Gardens: 54
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.8 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 3.3 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 5.0 mi
  • SIS Community Garden: 5.5 mi
Waterfalls: 34
  • Farmill River Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Cascades: 3.9 mi
  • Cascade: 4.1 mi
  • Cascade: 4.6 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 7.2 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.8 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.8 mi
  • Mother Mary: 5.6 mi
  • Heron: 6.6 mi
  • An American Dream: 7.5 mi
Attractions: 18
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 3.4 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.1 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 10.5 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 10.8 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 12.4 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 2.3 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 2.3 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 23.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 23.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 2.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 6.8 mi
  • Pond View: 10.3 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 10.4 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 10.6 mi
Cliffs: 6
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Eisenhower Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Moose HillNNW 344°231 m11.1 mi
Great HillNNW 339°202 m8.5 mi
Barn HillNW 316°200 m9.3 mi
Moose HillNW 308°198 m9.6 mi
Israel HillNW 312°192 m8.4 mi
Rockhouse HillNNW 337°192 m10.4 mi
Round HillNNE 17°190 m10.0 mi
Bugg HillWNW 302°189 m9.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:04
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly54 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel41 obs
  • Wild Turkey39 obs
  • Northern Cardinal30 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee28 obs
  • House Sparrow27 obs
  • Canada Goose26 obs
  • Red Fox26 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 way/468433903

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