Goodwin Park
Goodwin Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 22 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Landers Road Parcel, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee; Existing Preserved Open Space
What the record says
- Elevation
- 22 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Town of East Hartford
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Landers Road Parcel: 0.4 mi
- Montague Circle Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Richard E. Gorman Park: 0.8 mi
- Pine Hill Woods Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Long Hill Open Space: 1.0 mi
- Millbrook Playground: 0.5 mi
- Welles Park: 0.9 mi
- Hockanum Park: 1.1 mi
- Addison Park: 1.5 mi
- Emma and Nicholas DePietro Family Park: 2.1 mi
- Selden Brewer House: 1.0 mi
- Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum: 1.6 mi
- Museum on the Green: 2.6 mi
- Keeney Memorial Cultural Center: 2.9 mi
- Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum: 2.9 mi
- Round Hill: 1.3 mi
- Bush Hill: 2.5 mi
- Laurel Park Hill: 3.0 mi
- Wickham Hill: 3.4 mi
- Wolcott Hill: 3.9 mi
- Frog: 2.6 mi
- Equality: 2.9 mi
- The Circuit Rider: 3.3 mi
- Emancipation: 3.4 mi
- A Welcome Conversation: 3.5 mi
- Constitution Oak: 2.9 mi
- Keney Tower: 4.2 mi
- Geographic Center of Hartford: 4.8 mi
- Hay Tedder: 4.9 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 5.0 mi
- Warner Memorial: 2.9 mi
- Site Of The Charter Oak: 3.6 mi
- William H. Putnam: 3.8 mi
- Dr. Horace Wells: 4.0 mi
- Hunger Strikers Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Cascades: 5.2 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 5.3 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 6.3 mi
- Case Falls: 6.4 mi
- Dividend Falls: 6.4 mi
- Heritage Herb Garden: 2.9 mi
- Colonial Revival Garden: 2.9 mi
- Wethersfield Community Gardens: 3.0 mi
- Frank Weston Rose Garden: 3.3 mi
- Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 3.6 mi
- Crow Point: 2.1 mi
- Flag Rock: 9.1 mi
- South Wall: 10.0 mi
- Solar Panel: 10.1 mi
- Superstructure: 10.1 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 16.6 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 18.0 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 18.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 18.1 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 19.0 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 14.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 19.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.3 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 19.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.1 mi
- Windham Spring: 21.0 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 23.9 mi
- Hermit spring: 24.5 mi
- Gay City State Park: 8.8 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 18.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.0 miles of Goodwin Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talcott Mountain | WNW 298° | 276 m | 11.0 mi |
| Mannantuck | ESE 106° | 273 m | 7.3 mi |
| John Tom Hill | ESE 106° | 272 m | 7.3 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | SSE 155° | 265 m | 8.2 mi |
| Box Hill | ENE 61° | 252 m | 9.2 mi |
| Ely Mound | WNW 291° | 246 m | 10.6 mi |
| Clark Hill | SSE 156° | 241 m | 10.7 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | E 79° | 237 m | 6.5 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 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 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, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel17 obs
- garlic mustard17 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly16 obs
- common mugwort15 obs
- autumn olive15 obs
- American pokeweed14 obs
- House Sparrow13 obs
- Fowler's Toad12 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/951534732
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 13 mi
- Tolland · 15 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 18 mi
- Somers · 19 mi
- Storrs · 19 mi
- Willimantic · 20 mi
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