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Lions Park

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Lions Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 127 m. Beaver Bog Mountain stands 358 m to the west-northwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Long Meadow Hill Road), a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 19 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
127 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.47621, -73.39679

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Brookfield Municipal Center: 0.7 mi
  • Kahlo Preserve: 0.9 mi
  • Cadigan Park: 1.9 mi
  • Brookfield Town Beach: 2.0 mi
  • Candlewood Shores Recreation Area: 2.3 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 6.0 mi
  • 9-11 Memorial: 6.5 mi
  • The Vietnam War Monument: 6.7 mi
  • The Korean War Monument: 6.7 mi
  • War Memorial: 6.7 mi
Museums: 53
Waterfalls: 41
  • Quaker Brook Falls: 7.1 mi
  • Lower Falls: 7.3 mi
  • Upper Falls: 7.4 mi
  • Prydden Brook Falls: 10.7 mi
  • Saugatuck Falls: 11.6 mi
Gardens: 36
  • Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 7.2 mi
  • Butterfly Maze: 7.2 mi
  • Personal Gardens: 9.9 mi
  • Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 10.6 mi
  • Garden Of Ideas: 12.5 mi
Beaches: 24
Attractions: 21
Artworks: 14
  • Lesser Evil: 4.5 mi
  • greek letter pi: 5.2 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 7.3 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 9.3 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 12.1 mi
Cliffs: 12
Picnic sites: 8
  • Oak Grove: 13.7 mi
  • Pond View: 13.9 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 13.9 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 13.9 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 17.9 mi
Rest areas: 7
  • Danbury Rest Area: 8.8 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 17.6 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 17.6 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 22.6 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 22.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Covered bridges: 1
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 16.3 mi
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Beaver Bog MountainWNW 284°358 m6.4 mi
Wanzer MountainNW 306°346 m6.3 mi
Green Pond MountainNNW 331°323 m6.0 mi
Briggs HillNW 317°323 m7.4 mi
Titicus MountainWSW 252°313 m6.2 mi
Great MountainNNW 327°310 m5.2 mi
Cranson PeakSSE 159°303 m8.4 mi
Candlewood MountainNNW 338°296 m7.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2119:5020:32
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1715:4316:28

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, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Hickory Tussock Moth15 obs
  • Gray Treefrog15 obs
  • turkey-tail11 obs
  • American Toad11 obs
  • winged euonymus11 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk10 obs
  • American Black Bear10 obs
  • garlic mustard10 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/359286264

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