Housatonic Meadows State Park
Housatonic Meadows State Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 158 m. Mohawk Mountain stands 513 m to the east-southeast, 4.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mine Mountain, a peak 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 158 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mine Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Pine Knob: 0.6 mi
- South Mine Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Buck Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Bread Loaf Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Trinity Forest Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Sharon Mountain Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Sharon Mountain Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Sharon Mountain Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Sharon Mountain Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Dean's Ravine: 5.4 mi
- Bucksbaum Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Mudge Pond Town Beach: 6.6 mi
- Veterans Field: 6.7 mi
- Town Green: 7.1 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 0.8 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 1.5 mi
- Kent Falls: 5.2 mi
- Cascade: 5.4 mi
- Dean's Ravine Falls: 5.4 mi
- Cornwall Historical Society: 2.5 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 5.5 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 7.6 mi
- Goshen Historical Society: 8.0 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 8.7 mi
- Lime Kiln: 6.8 mi
- Folly: 7.3 mi
- John Brown Birthplace: 10.7 mi
- Mill Ruins: 11.8 mi
- East Canaan Veterans Monument: 12.6 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 6.9 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 9.1 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 9.4 mi
- Peter's Forge: 10.0 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 12.3 mi
- Grand Staircase: 10.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.5 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 13.7 mi
- Winsted Cliffs: 16.6 mi
- Kelly Slide: 18.5 mi
- Sandy Beach: 12.9 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 13.5 mi
- Holland Beach: 15.9 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 19.8 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 20.0 mi
- Judea Garden: 11.5 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 13.5 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 20.0 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 22.9 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 16.2 mi
- Hermit spring: 17.0 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.2 mi
- Big Spring: 20.8 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 18.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 20.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 22.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 2.9 mi
- Questing: 20.2 mi
- Jean Widmark: 19.9 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 23.3 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 13.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.9 miles of Housatonic Meadows State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohawk Mountain | ESE 111° | 513 m | 4.5 mi |
| The Pinnacle | ESE 114° | 502 m | 4.1 mi |
| Red Mountain | E 88° | 499 m | 4.5 mi |
| Sedgwick Mountain | ENE 69° | 495 m | 5.6 mi |
| Bartholomew Hill | E 87° | 484 m | 5.2 mi |
| Ellsworth Hill | SW 232° | 473 m | 4.8 mi |
| Howe Mountain | NE 43° | 473 m | 5.9 mi |
| Woodbury Mountain | SSE 155° | 464 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:50 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Falls Village, 7 mi away.
- Christmas fern15 obs
- partridgeberry13 obs
- Eastern Dobsonfly12 obs
- Green Frog10 obs
- Ghost Pipe8 obs
- American tuliptree8 obs
- purple-flowered raspberry8 obs
- sensitive fern8 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 node/359264580
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 24 mi
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- Monterey · 25 mi
- Otis · 28 mi
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