Goodwin Park
Goodwin Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the northwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridgecrest Circle Open Space, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Hartford
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ridgecrest Circle Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Wintergreen Woods: 1.2 mi
- Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel: 1.2 mi
- Kelly Property: 1.6 mi
- Cedarcrest Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Hunger Strikers Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Warner Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Statue of Bishop Thomas C. Brownell: 1.6 mi
- Site Of The Charter Oak: 2.5 mi
- Connecticut State Veterans Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Bobby Sands Circle: 0.6 mi
- Forster Heights Playground: 0.8 mi
- Columbus Park: 0.8 mi
- Leo Pugliese Memorial Green: 0.8 mi
- William J. Pitkin Recreation Complex: 0.8 mi
- Frank Weston Rose Garden: 1.5 mi
- Wethersfield Community Gardens: 1.8 mi
- Trinity College Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Colonial Revival Garden: 1.9 mi
- Heritage Herb Garden: 1.9 mi
- Myths, Minds and Medicine Museum: 1.6 mi
- Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum: 1.9 mi
- Keeney Memorial Cultural Center: 1.9 mi
- Silas W. Robbins House: 2.0 mi
- Amos Bull House: 2.5 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.8 mi
- Wolcott Hill: 1.8 mi
- Cedar Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Harriss Hill: 2.4 mi
- Elmwood Hill: 3.0 mi
- Constitution Oak: 1.9 mi
- Geographic Center of Hartford: 3.0 mi
- Mark Twain House: 3.0 mi
- Keney Tower: 3.4 mi
- Steven Sauter Rock: 6.5 mi
- Pulaski: 2.6 mi
- Stegosaurus: 2.7 mi
- Equality: 2.8 mi
- Stone Field Sculpture: 2.8 mi
- The Circuit Rider: 2.9 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 3.1 mi
- Dividend Falls: 6.1 mi
- Cascades: 6.7 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 8.8 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 9.2 mi
- Crow Point: 3.7 mi
- South Wall: 6.6 mi
- Solar Panel: 6.6 mi
- Superstructure: 6.6 mi
- Garden Wall: 7.0 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 14.7 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 16.1 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 18.1 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 19.3 mi
- Boating Side: 19.4 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 18.9 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 23.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 23.2 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 21.2 mi
- Hermit spring: 21.3 mi
- Big Spring: 22.7 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 24.1 mi
- Gay City State Park: 12.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.8 mi
- Picnic Grove: 19.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Goodwin Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talcott Mountain | NW 316° | 276 m | 8.4 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | SE 132° | 265 m | 9.9 mi |
| Ely Mound | NW 308° | 246 m | 7.6 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | ENE 78° | 237 m | 10.5 mi |
| Kongscut Mountain | ESE 102° | 234 m | 9.7 mi |
| Birch Mountain | E 81° | 233 m | 10.6 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | WSW 257° | 229 m | 7.7 mi |
| Raccoon Hill | SE 138° | 228 m | 10.7 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, 2 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk21 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee20 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee20 obs
- American Robin19 obs
- sensitive fern18 obs
- eastern poison ivy17 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle16 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly15 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1193392642
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 15 mi
- Tolland · 19 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 21 mi
- Somers · 22 mi
- Longmeadow · 23 mi
- Storrs · 23 mi
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