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Miantonomi Memorial Park

Miantonomi Memorial Park from directly overhead

Miantonomi Memorial Park is a park in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 42 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 0.4 miles off.

Miantonomi Memorial Park is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park is named after Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi.

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Coordinates41.51107, -71.31034

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower: 0.0 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 1.0 mi
  • Anchor Park: 1.0 mi
  • Oliver Perry Monument: 1.5 mi
  • Northwest Gun Mount: 1.9 mi
Peaks
  • Miantonomi Hill: 0.1 mi
  • Beacon Hill: 0.2 mi
  • Bliss Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Freebody Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Slate Hill: 3.1 mi
Parks
  • Linden Park: 0.5 mi
  • Middletown Valley Park: 0.8 mi
  • Cottrell Field: 0.8 mi
  • Middletown Valley Park: 0.8 mi
  • Hunter Park: 0.9 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Artworks: 56
Beaches: 55
Attractions: 47
Gardens: 19
Cliffs: 9
Springs: 4
  • Plum Point Spring: 5.8 mi
  • Elizabeth Spring: 12.1 mi
  • Factory Pond: 17.1 mi
  • Roger Williams Spring: 22.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Picnic sites: 4
  • Big Beach: 15.2 mi
  • Little Beach: 15.4 mi
  • Little Nini Pavillion: 20.8 mi
  • Picnic Pavilion: 20.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 17.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 18.1 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 18.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 18.9 mi
Lighthouses: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.0 miles of Miantonomi Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Yorker HillW 275°98 m11.8 mi
Mount PleasantW 268°97 m12.5 mi
Pocasset HillNNE 32°95 m11.5 mi
Sherman HillW 268°88 m10.6 mi
Slate HillNE 49°87 m3.1 mi
Cook HillNNE 31°85 m12.2 mi
Tefft HillWSW 255°78 m12.2 mi
Townsend HillNNE 30°77 m13.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2118:57
June solstice05:1219:4120:23
September equinox06:3318:0818:44
December solstice07:0915:3416:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313238475766727165554537
Precip in3.22.84.63.83.03.42.93.43.44.13.83.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport State AP, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Herring Gull71 obs
  • rugosa rose49 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail41 obs
  • Great Black-backed Gull26 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle25 obs
  • Ivy-leaved toadflax25 obs
  • American Robin24 obs
  • lesser celandine24 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/492280693

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