King Park
King Park is a park in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is King Park Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 2.9 miles off.
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 0.9 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 11.9 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 12.3 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 19 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Spencer Park: 0.2 mi
- Murphy Field: 0.6 mi
- Washington Park: 0.8 mi
- Ballard Park: 0.8 mi
- Touro Park: 0.8 mi
- The Doll Museum: 0.3 mi
- The Sailing Museum: 0.5 mi
- The Elms Mansion: 0.5 mi
- Isaac Bell House: 0.6 mi
- Kingscote Mansion: 0.6 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 0.9 mi
- Fort Adams: 1.0 mi
- USS Bennington Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Northwest Gun Mount: 1.8 mi
- Battery Varnum: 2.0 mi
- Fort Wetherill: 2.0 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 2.3 mi
- Castle Hill: 2.4 mi
- Bliss Hill: 2.4 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.4 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 2.4 mi
- Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve: 3.6 mi
- High Hill Point: 7.3 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Fogland Marsh Preserve: 7.5 mi
- King Park Beach: 0.1 mi
- Belmont Beach: 1.2 mi
- Gooseberry Beach: 1.2 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.2 mi
- Bailey Beach: 1.5 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 0.1 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 0.8 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 0.8 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 8.8 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 10.7 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 0.6 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 0.7 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 0.7 mi
- Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium: 1.0 mi
- Old Colony House: 1.0 mi
- The Blue Garden: 1.2 mi
- Herb Garden: 5.5 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 7.2 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 7.8 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 10.8 mi
- Marys Seat: 1.3 mi
- Rams Head: 2.5 mi
- The Bluff: 2.6 mi
- Lion Head: 4.0 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 12.2 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 6.3 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 13.8 mi
- Factory Pond: 15.7 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 24.9 mi
- The Falls: 6.9 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 14.1 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 14.5 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 24.6 mi
- Big Beach: 16.3 mi
- Little Beach: 16.5 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 19.3 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 19.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 18.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.0 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 20.3 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 20.5 mi
- Beavertail Light: 4.6 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 4.6 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.2 miles of King Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorker Hill | WNW 287° | 98 m | 11.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | W 280° | 97 m | 12.2 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 28° | 95 m | 13.8 mi |
| Sherman Hill | W 281° | 88 m | 10.3 mi |
| Slate Hill | NNE 33° | 87 m | 5.2 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 266° | 78 m | 11.4 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 292° | 75 m | 9.3 mi |
| Exeter Hill | WNW 300° | 75 m | 13.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:35 | 16:19 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport Rose, 2 mi away.
- rugosa rose322 obs
- American Herring Gull161 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant114 obs
- Common Eider92 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee71 obs
- princess tree70 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull69 obs
- Song Sparrow61 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 way/492317193
Day trips start here
- Newport · 1 mi
- Brenton Point State Park · 2 mi
- Middletown · 3 mi
- Jamestown · 4 mi
- Dutch Island · 5 mi
- Narragansett · 7 mi
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