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Margaret Egan Center Park

Margaret Egan Center Park from directly overhead

Margaret Egan Center Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Grove Circle Neighborhood Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.1 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.19799, -73.10274

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Grove Circle Neighborhood Park: 0.1 mi
  • Entrance to Devon: 0.3 mi
  • Hazelwood Playground: 0.4 mi
  • Liberty Rock Park: 0.7 mi
  • Wildermere Beach: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
Beaches
Museums
Peaks
Gardens
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.6 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 4.1 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 5.6 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 6.8 mi
  • Drew Park Community Gardens: 7.2 mi
Waterfalls: 30
  • Farmill River Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Cascades: 5.7 mi
  • Cascade: 6.6 mi
  • Cascade: 8.2 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 26
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.7 mi
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.7 mi
  • Heron: 5.3 mi
  • Mother Mary: 5.5 mi
  • An American Dream: 11.4 mi
Attractions: 18
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 7.1 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 8.7 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.0 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 13.7 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 14.2 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 3.1 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 4.2 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 10.7 mi
  • Pond View: 10.7 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 10.7 mi
Cliffs: 7
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 6.3 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 6.3 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 20.3 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 20.4 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of Margaret Egan Center Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillN 356°202 m11.5 mi
Barn HillNNW 337°200 m11.0 mi
Moose HillNNW 330°198 m10.7 mi
Israel HillNNW 336°192 m9.9 mi
Bugg HillNW 325°189 m10.6 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 345°188 m10.8 mi
Bagburn HillNNW 337°186 m12.2 mi
Tashua HillWNW 299°179 m8.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
September equinox06:4118:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 3 mi away.

  • American Oystercatcher185 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron174 obs
  • American Herring Gull145 obs
  • Song Sparrow140 obs
  • Osprey133 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab121 obs
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper111 obs
  • Great Egret106 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 way/329545728

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