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Lake Lillinonah Park

Lake Lillinonah Park from directly overhead

Lake Lillinonah Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 66 m. Great Mountain stands 310 m to the northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Birnham Wood Development (2 Parcels), a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 17 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
66 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.47083, -73.33202

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Lake Lillinonah (Pond Brook) Boat Launch: 0.8 mi
  • Lake Lillinonah Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
  • Kahlo Preserve: 3.1 mi
  • Lions Park: 3.4 mi
  • Brookfield Municipal Center: 3.6 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 3.9 mi
  • Candle wall: 4.4 mi
  • Natalie Todd Lilly: 6.5 mi
  • Charcoal Hearth: 6.9 mi
  • Thomas Robert Lilly: 6.9 mi
Museums
Beaches: 54
  • South Beach: 6.7 mi
  • North Beach: 6.7 mi
  • Jackson Cove Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Pine Ledge: 9.0 mi
  • Zoar Beach: 10.2 mi
Gardens: 54
  • Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 8.8 mi
  • Butterfly Maze: 8.8 mi
  • Personal Gardens: 13.2 mi
  • Garden Of Ideas: 14.3 mi
Waterfalls: 45
  • Prydden Brook Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Southford Falls: 8.7 mi
  • East Meadow Brook Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Quaker Brook Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Lower Falls: 10.6 mi
Attractions: 25
Artworks: 20
  • Lesser Evil: 6.1 mi
  • greek letter pi: 7.4 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 7.6 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 8.1 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 11.3 mi
Cliffs: 14
Picnic sites: 9
  • Oak Grove: 11.8 mi
  • Pond View: 11.8 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 11.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 12.0 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 18.7 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Danbury Rest Area: 11.3 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.8 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.8 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 20.9 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 20.9 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
Covered bridges: 1
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Lake Lillinonah Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great MountainNW 307°310 m7.8 mi
Cranson PeakS 182°303 m7.5 mi
Good HillNNE 32°292 m6.9 mi
Second HillNNW 341°285 m6.0 mi
Greenleaf HillNNE 12°282 m7.5 mi
Botsford HillN 352°267 m4.1 mi
Mine HillN 353°267 m7.5 mi
Sweet Cake MountainW 270°265 m6.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2019:4920:31
September equinox06:4118:1618:52
December solstice07:1715:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506069757265534233
Precip in3.73.34.44.24.24.85.04.94.95.04.04.6

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Bobcat15 obs
  • American wintergreen14 obs
  • Coyote9 obs
  • striped wintergreen9 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage8 obs
  • American Black Bear6 obs
  • Christmas fern6 obs
  • partridgeberry6 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 way/43435996

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