Forster Heights Playground
Forster Heights Playground is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 37 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is White Street Triangle, a park 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 37 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Hartford
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- White Street Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Chandler Street Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Goodwin Park: 0.8 mi
- Bobby Sands Circle: 0.8 mi
- Leo Pugliese Memorial Green: 1.0 mi
- Ridgecrest Circle Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Beechwood Park: 1.3 mi
- Cedarcrest Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Wintergreen Woods: 1.7 mi
- Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel: 2.0 mi
- Hunger Strikers Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Statue of Bishop Thomas C. Brownell: 1.6 mi
- Warner Memorial: 2.2 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Site Of The Charter Oak: 2.7 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.7 mi
- Cedar Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Elmwood Hill: 2.2 mi
- Wolcott Hill: 2.4 mi
- Harriss Hill: 3.0 mi
- Myths, Minds and Medicine Museum: 1.8 mi
- Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum: 2.6 mi
- Kellog Eddy House & Museum: 2.6 mi
- Keeney Memorial Cultural Center: 2.7 mi
- Butler-McCook Homestead: 2.7 mi
- Trinity College Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Frank Weston Rose Garden: 2.2 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Hudson Street Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Wethersfield Community Gardens: 2.5 mi
- Constitution Oak: 2.7 mi
- Mark Twain House: 2.8 mi
- Geographic Center of Hartford: 2.9 mi
- Keney Tower: 3.5 mi
- Steven Sauter Rock: 5.8 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 2.7 mi
- Dividend Falls: 6.5 mi
- Cascades: 7.4 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 8.3 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 9.9 mi
- Pulaski: 2.8 mi
- Stegosaurus: 2.9 mi
- Stone Field Sculpture: 3.0 mi
- Love: 3.1 mi
- Thomas Hooker: 3.1 mi
- Crow Point: 4.5 mi
- South Wall: 5.8 mi
- Solar Panel: 5.9 mi
- Superstructure: 5.9 mi
- Garden Wall: 6.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 14.6 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 15.8 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 17.6 mi
- Boating Side: 18.7 mi
- Waterfront: 18.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.1 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 18.8 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 23.8 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 23.8 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.6 mi
- Hermit spring: 20.6 mi
- Big Spring: 22.1 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 23.4 mi
- Gay City State Park: 13.4 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 20.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 18.8 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Forster Heights Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talcott Mountain | NW 320° | 276 m | 7.8 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | SE 129° | 265 m | 10.5 mi |
| Ely Mound | NW 311° | 246 m | 6.9 mi |
| Kongscut Mountain | ESE 102° | 234 m | 10.4 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | WSW 255° | 229 m | 6.9 mi |
| Ragged Mountain | SW 220° | 217 m | 9.8 mi |
| Minnechaug Mountain | E 91° | 215 m | 9.6 mi |
| Bradley Mountain | SW 236° | 207 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:47 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 3 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk22 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee18 obs
- multiflora rose14 obs
- eastern poison ivy13 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee13 obs
- Monarch12 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly12 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle11 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/43442492
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 15 mi
- Tolland · 20 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 22 mi
- Somers · 22 mi
- Longmeadow · 23 mi
- Storrs · 24 mi
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