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Meadowside Playground

Meadowside Playground from directly overhead

Meadowside Playground is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Eric Zimmerman Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.7 miles off.

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Coordinates41.21068, -73.07171

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Eric Zimmerman Playground: 0.4 mi
  • Milford Green: 0.8 mi
  • Milford Green: 1.0 mi
  • Walnut Beach Park: 1.1 mi
  • Milford Green: 1.1 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 0.9 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 2.6 mi
  • Americana Museum: 2.7 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 2.7 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 3.3 mi
Peaks
  • Knobb Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Clark Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 3.1 mi
Gardens: 53
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.6 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 4.9 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 7.5 mi
Waterfalls: 32
  • Farmill River Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Cascades: 5.4 mi
  • Cascade: 6.3 mi
  • Cascade: 6.7 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 9.3 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.7 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.7 mi
  • Mother Mary: 6.0 mi
  • Heron: 6.3 mi
  • An American Dream: 9.6 mi
Attractions: 19
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 5.3 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 9.7 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 10.5 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 11.9 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.1 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 1.4 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.7 mi
  • Pond View: 11.2 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 11.2 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 11.4 mi
Lighthouses: 6
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.9 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.0 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 22.1 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 22.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 23.0 mi
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Meadowside Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 348°202 m10.8 mi
Barn HillNNW 328°200 m10.9 mi
Moose HillNW 320°198 m10.9 mi
Israel HillNW 325°192 m9.9 mi
Bugg HillNW 316°189 m11.0 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 335°188 m10.6 mi
Peck HillN 10°183 m11.8 mi
Tashua HillWNW 290°179 m9.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
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, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Herring Gull100 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull87 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab84 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly76 obs
  • Clapper Rail76 obs
  • Common Atlantic Slippersnail73 obs
  • Song Sparrow72 obs
  • Asian Shore Crab71 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/442066810

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