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Gault Park

Gault Park from directly overhead

Gault Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 20 m. Goodsell Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Hitchcock Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
20 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.16343, -73.35206

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hitchcock Park: 0.3 mi
  • Town Farm Ball Complex: 0.7 mi
  • Wakeman Park: 1.0 mi
  • Canal Green: 1.2 mi
  • St. John Place/Myrtle Avenue Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
  • Silent Grove: 0.9 mi
  • Newtown Turnpike Property: 1.7 mi
  • Stony Brook Road Property: 1.8 mi
  • Keene Park: 2.0 mi
  • Westport Road Open Space: 2.1 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Westport Community Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Formal Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Drew Park Community Gardens: 6.1 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 7.6 mi
Beaches
Artworks: 54
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 10.0 mi
  • Heron: 10.3 mi
  • Mother Mary: 11.9 mi
  • Dancing Girl: 12.4 mi
  • Samford Sign: 12.5 mi
Attractions: 19
Waterfalls: 18
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Cascade: 5.6 mi
  • Cascade: 6.6 mi
  • Cascade: 7.3 mi
  • Sheep Falls: 7.6 mi
Picnic sites: 17
  • Picnic Grove: 9.5 mi
  • The Meadow: 10.4 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.5 mi
  • Oak Grove: 11.8 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 12.1 mi
Cliffs: 11
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 6
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 7.3 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 7.3 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 17.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 17.7 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 17.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 10.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.1 miles of Gault Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Goodsell HillNNW 335°211 m7.8 mi
Huckleberry HillNNW 340°204 m8.1 mi
Gilbert HillNNW 333°186 m7.7 mi
Bald HillWNW 298°184 m7.4 mi
Upper Bald HillNW 305°171 m8.0 mi
Round HillNNE 30°170 m7.1 mi
Comstock KnollWNW 297°164 m6.4 mi
Powells HillNNE 12°159 m5.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2219:4920:30
September equinox06:4218:1618:52
December solstice07:1615:4416:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303240516169757366554435
Precip in4.33.14.74.44.14.93.83.85.24.64.24.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stamford 5 N, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch177 obs
  • Ipsilon Dart Moth140 obs
  • Elegant Grass-veneer102 obs
  • Bicolored Sallow82 obs
  • Armyworm Moth82 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail66 obs
  • Zabulon Skipper63 obs
  • Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth61 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 node/359285920

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