Hickory Grove Roadside Park
Hickory Grove Roadside Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 87 m. Sunset Hill stands 240 m to the north-northeast, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Gauthier Field, a park 1.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 7.2 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 87 m
How to reach it
- 7.2 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 10.6 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- On the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 25.0 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Named places within 25 miles
- Gauthier Field: 1.5 mi
- Harry and Margaret Bowers Recreational Field: 1.6 mi
- Shetucket Plains Road Park: 3.8 mi
- Giddings Park: 4.9 mi
- Philip Lauter Park: 4.9 mi
- Allanach-Wolf Woodlands: 1.9 mi
- James V. Spignesi Jr. Wildlife Management Area: 1.9 mi
- Devotion Woods: 2.1 mi
- Cloutier Memorial Forest: 2.5 mi
- Dave Shoemaker Demonstration Forest: 2.8 mi
- Mullin Hill: 1.9 mi
- Pudding Hill: 2.6 mi
- Parish Hill: 3.2 mi
- Pleasure Hill: 3.4 mi
- Miller Hill: 3.6 mi
- Edward Waldo House Museum: 2.8 mi
- Windham Textile and History Museum: 5.0 mi
- Jillison House Museum: 5.2 mi
- Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Johnathan Trumbull Jr. House: 6.7 mi
- plaque: 4.5 mi
- Dr. William Beaumont: 6.8 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 8.4 mi
- Old root cellar: 9.5 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 10.0 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 2.8 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 4.2 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 4.2 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 4.4 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 4.4 mi
- Manny: 5.1 mi
- Willy: 5.1 mi
- Windy: 5.1 mi
- Swifty: 5.2 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 10.0 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 1.8 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 2.5 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Manship Road-Barstow Road: 5.6 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 5.8 mi
- Wolf Rock: 6.7 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 5.0 mi
- Mary's Garden: 5.2 mi
- fern and rock garden: 10.2 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 10.3 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 10.7 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 12.8 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 14.6 mi
- Sandy Beach: 21.0 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 21.9 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 22.8 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 6.7 mi
- Coney Rock: 8.2 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 8.3 mi
- Flag Rock: 18.5 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 19.9 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 15.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 16.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 16.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 23.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 24.8 mi
- Bara-Hack: 13.6 mi
- Gay City State Park: 17.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.3 mi
- Picnic: 22.2 mi
- Skate Hut: 23.8 mi
- Powder House: 24.2 mi
- Windham Spring: 5.1 mi
- Old Spring: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Hickory Grove Roadside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Hill | NNE 14° | 240 m | 6.9 mi |
| Clark Hill | N 5° | 235 m | 5.4 mi |
| Bear Hill | N 5° | 232 m | 6.1 mi |
| Kimball Hill | NNE 28° | 231 m | 9.2 mi |
| Alworth Hill | NE 38° | 225 m | 8.1 mi |
| Hampton Hill | NNE 25° | 221 m | 6.5 mi |
| Shaw Hill | NNE 31° | 220 m | 4.4 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | N 352° | 218 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 37 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Willimantic Windham AP, 5 mi away.
- pink lady's slipper6 obs
- dame's rocket6 obs
- common yarrow5 obs
- common mugwort5 obs
- Christmas fern5 obs
- American wintergreen5 obs
- white campion5 obs
- sensitive fern5 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/359278349
Day trips start here
- Mystic-Eastern · 4 mi
- Willimantic · 6 mi
- Norwich · 10 mi
- Storrs · 10 mi
- Griswold · 13 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 14 mi
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