Morse Park
Morse Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. High Rock stands 216 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Ralph Eberle Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 8.2 miles off.
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 29.8 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ralph Eberle Park: 0.3 mi
- Old Grove Park: 0.8 mi
- Bayview Park: 0.9 mi
- West Haven Green: 0.9 mi
- Painter Park: 1.2 mi
- Sandy Point Bird Sanctuary: 0.4 mi
- Ray Park: 1.0 mi
- Shingle Hill Park: 1.9 mi
- Old Town Landing: 2.4 mi
- Morris Creek Nature Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Ward Heitmann House Museum: 1.2 mi
- National Art Museum of Sport: 2.3 mi
- The Hill Museum of Arts: 2.5 mi
- Connecticut Childrens Museum: 3.2 mi
- Yale Collection of Musical Instruments: 3.4 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Fort Hale Point: 1.6 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Wounded combat veterans’ monument: 1.7 mi
- Defenders’ Monument: 2.4 mi
- Sea Bluff Beach: 1.6 mi
- Prospect Beach: 1.8 mi
- Shell Beach: 2.3 mi
- Rocky Beach: 2.7 mi
- West Silver Sands Beach: 3.0 mi
- Shingle Hill: 1.9 mi
- Chidsey Hill: 2.3 mi
- Jones Hill: 2.4 mi
- Raynham Hill: 2.5 mi
- Beacon Hill: 2.6 mi
- Washington Ave Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Truman Street Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Peace Garden At West River: 3.1 mi
- Yale Landscape Lab: 3.2 mi
- Knot Garden: 3.6 mi
- Cascade: 5.6 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 5.9 mi
- Wepawaug Falls: 8.2 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 8.6 mi
- Sperry Falls: 8.7 mi
- John B Pierce: 2.7 mi
- An American Dream: 2.7 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 4.1 mi
- Turtle Statue: 4.5 mi
- End of the Line/West Rock: 4.8 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 3.2 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 4.3 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 10.9 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 11.7 mi
- Bear Cave: 13.6 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Grove: 13.3 mi
- Pond View: 16.0 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 16.1 mi
- Oak Grove: 16.4 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Chimney Corner: 11.6 mi
- Bluff Head: 16.0 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 16.2 mi
- Bethel Rock: 23.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.9 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 6.0 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 15.8 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 21.4 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.4 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 11.6 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 11.6 mi
- Fog Signal House: 11.6 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 14.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 4.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 14.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of Morse Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Rock | N 358° | 216 m | 10.3 mi |
| Mount Carmel | NNE 11° | 206 m | 11.8 mi |
| Great Hill | NW 306° | 202 m | 11.7 mi |
| Meeting House Hill | NNW 345° | 193 m | 11.7 mi |
| Round Hill | NNW 338° | 190 m | 9.2 mi |
| Peck Hill | NNW 328° | 183 m | 9.4 mi |
| Peck Hill | NW 326° | 171 m | 9.1 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NNW 332° | 153 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:42 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 2 mi away.
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab126 obs
- American Herring Gull91 obs
- staghorn sumac76 obs
- Brant75 obs
- Eastern Oyster71 obs
- Ring-billed Gull70 obs
- American Oystercatcher65 obs
- common reed55 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/43399005
Day trips start here
- Essex · 29 mi
- Old Saybrook · 29 mi
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