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Hains Park

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Hains Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. Mount Archer stands 136 m to the northwest, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Jericho Preserve, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 14 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
16 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.34954, -72.29758

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Rogers Lake Boat Launch: 0.9 mi
  • Uncas Lake Boat Launch: 2.1 mi
  • Norwich Pond Boat Launch: 2.5 mi
  • Old Lyme Green: 3.1 mi
  • Lieutenant River Boat Launch: 3.2 mi
Peaks
Museums
Historic sites
Beaches
Waterfalls: 37
  • Silver Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Cascade: 8.7 mi
  • Cascade: 8.7 mi
  • Cascade: 9.1 mi
  • Chapman Falls: 9.6 mi
Attractions: 36
  • Salmon Head Rock: 5.8 mi
  • tri-town marker: 6.0 mi
  • turtle rock: 6.2 mi
  • Historic Ferry: 8.5 mi
  • Stone Table: 8.6 mi
Gardens: 25
  • Memorial Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Wildflower Garden: 9.9 mi
  • Laurel Walk: 9.9 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 10.0 mi
  • Sprout Garden: 10.1 mi
Artworks: 23
Cliffs: 9
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 8.0 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 12.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 17.0 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Old Spring: 16.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 7.4 miles of Hains Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ArcherNW 320°136 m4.9 mi
Walnut HillNNE 25°131 m6.6 mi
Grassy HillNNE 15°129 m3.7 mi
Nickerson HillNNW 336°123 m3.7 mi
Morgan HillNE 51°120 m6.8 mi
Polly HillNE 54°117 m6.4 mi
Honey HillNW 312°114 m4.7 mi
Brown HillNNW 336°112 m2.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:01
June solstice05:1719:4520:27
September equinox06:3718:1218:48
December solstice07:1315:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313239485766727265544537
Precip in2.72.23.83.63.33.33.23.33.83.73.23.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton NEW London AP, 13 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch24 obs
  • Winter Firefly23 obs
  • Ghost Pipe17 obs
  • American wintergreen17 obs
  • Spring Peeper14 obs
  • Spicebush Swallowtail13 obs
  • striped wintergreen13 obs
  • partridgeberry12 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/359279682

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