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Kern Park

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Kern Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 93 m. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Barnes Field, a park 0.9 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
93 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.70232, -72.90232

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Vincent H. Core Memorial: 2.4 mi
  • Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 3.7 mi
  • plinth: 3.7 mi
  • Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 3.7 mi
  • Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 4.0 mi
Museums
Attractions
Waterfalls
  • Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Whigville Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Cascades: 4.3 mi
  • Seven Steps Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Fetzer Falls: 6.0 mi
Gardens: 53
  • Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 3.0 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 4.4 mi
  • Wolcott Community Garden: 8.1 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 9.2 mi
  • 5-Sense Garden: 9.2 mi
Artworks: 45
Cliffs: 20
  • Green Wall: 3.6 mi
  • Porcupine Hole: 3.6 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 4.9 mi
  • Ravens Roost: 5.0 mi
  • South Wall: 6.9 mi
Beaches: 9
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 14.0 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 16.1 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Big Spring: 18.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 8.9 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 17.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 8.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Kern Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Johnnycake MountainNW 307°354 m5.9 mi
South MountainSSW 212°313 m4.4 mi
Lindsley HillSSW 211°312 m6.4 mi
Clinton HillSW 223°303 m8.0 mi
Scranton MountainNW 321°300 m5.2 mi
Mount HopeWNW 284°297 m3.7 mi
Becar HillSW 218°297 m7.2 mi
Pine HillWSW 251°295 m8.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485968737164524233
Precip in3.73.44.24.34.24.84.45.15.05.73.94.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 7 mi away.

  • Coyote96 obs
  • Red Fox68 obs
  • American Black Bear39 obs
  • Virginia Opossum23 obs
  • White-tailed Deer21 obs
  • Common Raccoon18 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel15 obs
  • garlic mustard13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/359289720

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