Griswold Park
Griswold Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 59 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the west, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park, a museum 0.5 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 59 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park: 0.5 mi
- Berlin Historical Society: 0.9 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum: 2.1 mi
- New Britain Industrial Museum: 2.1 mi
- Plainville Historic Center: 4.9 mi
- Hungerford Park: 0.5 mi
- Town Of Berlin (Newton Street): 0.6 mi
- Town Of Berlin (Warner Road): 0.7 mi
- Treasure Field: 0.7 mi
- Ragged Mountain Memorial Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Paper Goods Pond Park: 0.6 mi
- Percival Field: 0.8 mi
- Deming Park: 0.9 mi
- Willow Brook Park: 0.9 mi
- Martha Hart Park: 1.0 mi
- Kensington Soldier's Monument: 1.0 mi
- World War I Monument: 1.9 mi
- New Britain Soldiers' Monument: 2.1 mi
- Borinqueneers Monument: 2.8 mi
- Stone House Ruins: 4.2 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 1.1 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 4.9 mi
- Westfield Falls: 5.4 mi
- Cascades: 7.4 mi
- Dividend Falls: 7.9 mi
- Turkey Hill: 1.5 mi
- Ragged Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Bradley Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Short Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Osgood Hill: 3.2 mi
- Hospital Rock: 4.3 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 4.9 mi
- 1954: 6.4 mi
- Libby's Lump: 7.6 mi
- Constitution Oak: 8.6 mi
- Cromwell Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Sunken Garden: 6.1 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 6.5 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 6.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.3 mi
- Home: 2.0 mi
- CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 4.5 mi
- First Tear: 8.0 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 8.8 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 9.1 mi
- Green Wall: 5.0 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 5.1 mi
- South Wall: 8.9 mi
- Solar Panel: 9.0 mi
- Superstructure: 9.0 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 8.4 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 8.8 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 10.4 mi
- Boating Side: 13.1 mi
- Waterfront: 13.2 mi
- Hermit spring: 21.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 22.4 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 22.6 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 24.4 mi
- Big Spring: 24.5 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 6.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 7.6 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 12.3 mi
- Gay City State Park: 18.9 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 13.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Griswold Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mountain | W 275° | 313 m | 8.4 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | W 264° | 312 m | 9.3 mi |
| West Peak | SSW 210° | 301 m | 6.0 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | W 267° | 290 m | 7.9 mi |
| Southington Mountain | WSW 253° | 281 m | 8.7 mi |
| East Peak | SSW 205° | 277 m | 6.1 mi |
| Higby Mountain | SSE 158° | 272 m | 6.4 mi |
| Castle Rock | W 279° | 251 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.
- winged euonymus37 obs
- bloodroot22 obs
- American cancer-root20 obs
- mapleleaf viburnum20 obs
- common mugwort19 obs
- garlic mustard18 obs
- Japanese barberry18 obs
- Virginia saxifrage18 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 node/359288196
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 23 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 24 mi
- Tolland · 27 mi
- Essex · 28 mi
- Somers · 30 mi
- Willimantic · 30 mi
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