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Fort Wooster Park

Fort Wooster Park from directly overhead

Fort Wooster Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 55 m. High Rock stands 216 m to the north-northwest, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Beacon Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 11 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of New Haven
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.28281, -72.89216

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Marlin Estate: 0.1 mi
  • Burr Community Park: 0.5 mi
  • East Shore Park: 0.6 mi
  • Peat Meadow Park: 0.7 mi
  • Griswold Triangle: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
  • Fort Hale Point: 1.1 mi
  • World War II Memorial: 1.3 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 1.3 mi
  • East Haven Fire Department Memorial: 1.3 mi
  • World War Memorial: 1.3 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Beaches
Gardens: 48
Waterfalls: 38
Attractions: 22
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 2.6 mi
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 5.6 mi
  • Dinosaur Rock: 9.3 mi
  • Bear Cave: 11.0 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 11.2 mi
Artworks: 21
  • John B Pierce: 2.5 mi
  • An American Dream: 2.5 mi
  • Henry Gould Lewis: 3.4 mi
  • Beacon of Hope: 3.6 mi
  • Turtle Statue: 3.8 mi
Cliffs: 7
Rest areas: 6
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 8.1 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 8.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 13.6 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 20.1 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.3 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 9.4 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 15.8 mi
  • Pond View: 18.0 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 18.0 mi
  • Oak Grove: 18.4 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Fort Wooster Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High RockNNW 344°216 m9.3 mi
Mount CarmelN 0°206 m10.2 mi
Meeting House HillNNW 332°193 m11.3 mi
Round HillNW 321°190 m9.2 mi
Peck HillNW 312°183 m9.8 mi
Totoket MountainNE 40°176 m10.3 mi
Peck HillNW 310°171 m9.7 mi
East SugarloafNE 52°156 m10.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1919:4720:29
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1515:4216:26

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, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-throated Sparrow92 obs
  • staghorn sumac79 obs
  • Eastern Oyster51 obs
  • Asian bittersweet51 obs
  • Brant49 obs
  • common reed46 obs
  • Atlantic Ribbed Mussel45 obs
  • common mugwort41 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/43437052

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