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Hillside Gardens

Hillside Gardens from directly overhead

Hillside Gardens is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 407 m. Bradford Mountain stands 584 m to the west-northwest, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Dennis Hill State Park, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 21 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
407 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.96037, -73.20095

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
Waterfalls: 56
Historic sites: 53
Museums: 51
Attractions: 39
  • Beckley Furnace: 5.9 mi
  • 4 towns meet: 9.1 mi
  • Army Corps of Engineers benchmark: 9.3 mi
  • Giant's Thumb: 10.1 mi
  • Lighthouse cemetery: 10.1 mi
Cliffs: 25
  • Winsted Cliffs: 7.6 mi
  • The Beech: 10.2 mi
  • Space Invaders: 10.2 mi
  • Cloud Buttress: 10.2 mi
  • Squirrel Wall: 10.2 mi
Artworks: 23
  • Newsboy Statue: 17.7 mi
  • Liebowitz Letter: 19.6 mi
  • Naked Lady: 19.6 mi
  • Bike Sculpture: 21.4 mi
  • Divine Mercy: 23.3 mi
Gardens: 17
  • Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 15.3 mi
  • Flower Gardens: 17.2 mi
  • Herb Gardens: 17.2 mi
  • Heritage Garden: 17.2 mi
  • Community Garden: 19.6 mi
Beaches: 8
Springs: 4
  • Cannavo Spring: 7.1 mi
  • Hermit spring: 9.9 mi
  • Big Spring: 10.2 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 10.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Picnic Area: 10.9 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 15.7 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 24.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Hillside Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bradford MountainWNW 293°584 m5.2 mi
Bald MountainN 350°539 m4.7 mi
Stone Man MountainW 267°528 m4.2 mi
Wangum Lake HillWNW 284°521 m3.0 mi
East Bald MountainN 1°519 m4.8 mi
Higley HillN 9°518 m8.1 mi
Haystack MountainN 353°510 m3.1 mi
Dutton MountainNNE 16°506 m1.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:1819:5020:32
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1815:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445564696760483828
Precip in4.03.34.23.94.15.04.84.74.95.14.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norfolk 2 SW, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Newt21 obs
  • American Toad14 obs
  • Ghost Pipe13 obs
  • sensitive fern10 obs
  • mountain laurel9 obs
  • Rosy Maple Moth7 obs
  • striped maple7 obs
  • ragged-robin7 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/359281410

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