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Fernridge Park

Fernridge Park from directly overhead

Fernridge Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 43 m. Barnes Hill stands 283 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Mooney's Woods, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 30 miles off.

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Coordinates41.76557, -72.75229
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
Historic sites
  • West Hartford Veterans Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • Lamuel Haynes Memorial: 0.6 mi
  • Noah Webster Statue: 0.6 mi
  • Old Grist Mill Site: 0.7 mi
  • Jessie's Community Gardens: 1.2 mi
Peaks
Gardens
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 1.2 mi
  • 5-Sense Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Jessie's Community Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Primary Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Shade Garden: 1.2 mi
Museums
Attractions
Waterfalls
  • Mill Pond Falls: 5.0 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 9.4 mi
  • Seven Steps Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Fetzer Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 10.3 mi
Artworks: 54
Cliffs: 18
  • South Wall: 2.5 mi
  • Solar Panel: 2.5 mi
  • Superstructure: 2.5 mi
  • Garden Wall: 2.7 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 2.7 mi
Beaches: 11
Springs: 4
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 16.8 mi
  • Hermit spring: 17.0 mi
  • Big Spring: 18.3 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 19.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 14.6 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 15.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 17.5 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 20.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Fernridge Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Barnes HillW 279°283 m10.5 mi
Talcott MountainNW 323°276 m4.0 mi
Taine MountainW 269°268 m8.4 mi
Wildcat MountainW 264°262 m9.6 mi
East HillNW 309°261 m9.4 mi
Rattlesnake HillWNW 302°257 m9.9 mi
Onion MountainNW 315°253 m9.3 mi
Ely MoundNW 305°246 m3.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Robin75 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk57 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee48 obs
  • Northern Cardinal46 obs
  • House Sparrow38 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail38 obs
  • Painted Turtle36 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel36 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/335153948

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