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Mill Pond Park

Mill Pond Park from directly overhead

Mill Pond Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 23 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the north-northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Mill Pond Falls, a waterfall 0.1 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.69310, -72.73015

Named places within 25 miles

Waterfalls
  • Mill Pond Falls: 0.1 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 5.6 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 5.9 mi
  • Cascades: 7.8 mi
  • Westfield Falls: 7.8 mi
Parks
  • Mary Welles Park: 0.4 mi
  • Kellogg/Eddy Open Space: 0.5 mi
  • Badger Field: 0.6 mi
  • Robbins Green: 0.7 mi
  • Maple Hill Green: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 0.4 mi
  • Iwo Jima Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • Stone House Ruins: 2.5 mi
  • Nature Center Ruins: 2.5 mi
  • Borinqueneers Monument: 3.0 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Attractions
Gardens: 57
Artworks: 44
Cliffs: 19
Beaches: 11
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 20.6 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 21.1 mi
  • Big Spring: 22.8 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 23.6 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.6 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 12.3 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 16.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 16.6 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.2 miles of Mill Pond Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Talcott MountainNNW 337°276 m8.9 mi
Higby MountainS 183°272 m9.8 mi
Ely MoundNNW 331°246 m7.8 mi
Rattlesnake MountainW 276°229 m5.2 mi
Ragged MountainSW 222°217 m7.1 mi
Bradley MountainWSW 246°207 m6.1 mi
Clark HillESE 112°206 m9.3 mi
Killkenny RocksNW 322°194 m5.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 5 mi away.

  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee130 obs
  • Western Honey Bee112 obs
  • Ligated Furrow Bee56 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee34 obs
  • Two-spotted Bumble Bee23 obs
  • Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee19 obs
  • Eastern Calligrapher19 obs
  • House Sparrow16 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/43440835

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