Fort Shantok Park
Fort Shantok Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Chapel Hill stands 182 m to the west, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Crow Hill, a peak 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 9.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1997
- Elevation
- 25 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Mohegan Tribe
How to reach it
- 9.3 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 12.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 15.2 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 22.0 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Crow Hill: 0.5 mi
- Uncas Hill: 0.8 mi
- Long Rock: 1.0 mi
- Stoddard Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mohegan Hill: 1.3 mi
- PTA Lane Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Avery Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Massapeag Point Road Open Space: 1.0 mi
- Poquetanuck Road Open Space: 1.0 mi
- Thames River Water Access: 1.2 mi
- Tantaquidgeon Museum: 1.1 mi
- Mohegan Cultural Preservation Center: 1.1 mi
- Perkins-Rockwell House: 3.9 mi
- John F. Slater Memorial Museum: 4.0 mi
- Nathan Lester House: 4.1 mi
- Trading Cove Association: 1.5 mi
- Stoddard Hill Boat Launch: 1.5 mi
- Poquetanuck Cove Boat Launch: 1.5 mi
- Aljen Heights: 1.7 mi
- Judge Crandall Field: 1.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Rotary Club Memorial to Peace: 3.1 mi
- Miantonomo: 5.1 mi
- Youngs Ledyard Morgan: 5.6 mi
- Mill Brook Bridge: 5.9 mi
- Green Harbor Beach: 9.8 mi
- Kiddie's Beach: 10.0 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 10.0 mi
- Groton Beach: 10.2 mi
- Mitchell Beach: 10.4 mi
- River Blue: 1.0 mi
- Muffler Man: 3.0 mi
- Nevertheless: 3.2 mi
- Promised Day: 3.2 mi
- Sparky: 3.2 mi
- Yantic Falls: 3.9 mi
- Silver Falls: 8.5 mi
- Cascade: 9.1 mi
- Cascade: 9.2 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 11.2 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 4.0 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 4.1 mi
- The Dark Manor Haunted House: 8.4 mi
- The Whale: 8.6 mi
- turtle rock: 10.9 mi
- Memorial Rose Gardens: 4.0 mi
- Sprout Garden: 6.9 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 7.0 mi
- Azalea Garden: 7.1 mi
- Laurel Walk: 7.1 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 15.4 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 20.6 mi
- Pine Ledge: 20.7 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 21.2 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 22.6 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 2.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 9.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 21.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.4 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 16.7 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
- Oil Shed: 16.7 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 16.7 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 20.2 mi
- Skate Hut: 8.9 mi
- Powder House: 9.2 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 22.7 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 22.9 mi
- Old Spring: 6.3 mi
- Windham Spring: 18.2 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Fort Shantok Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill | W 263° | 182 m | 6.4 mi |
| Raymond Hill | WNW 282° | 170 m | 5.2 mi |
| Dolbeare Hill | W 261° | 162 m | 5.3 mi |
| Wawecus Hill | NW 323° | 153 m | 5.1 mi |
| Bear Hill | NW 310° | 152 m | 6.0 mi |
| Bargy Ledges | WNW 302° | 151 m | 5.4 mi |
| Sharp Hill | WSW 243° | 149 m | 4.1 mi |
| Ayer Hill | E 87° | 144 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norwich Public Utility PLT, 3 mi away.
- American wintergreen15 obs
- wineberry12 obs
- striped wintergreen10 obs
- black cherry9 obs
- mountain laurel8 obs
- sassafras8 obs
- eastern poison ivy7 obs
- trailing arbutus7 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.
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