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New Farfield Town Beach

New Farfield Town Beach from directly overhead

New Farfield Town Beach is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 133 m. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the north-northwest, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is New Fairfield Town Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 21 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
133 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.49072, -73.46612

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • New Fairfield Town Park: 0.2 mi
  • Candlewood Lake (Squantz Cove) Boat Launch: 1.2 mi
  • Squantz Pond Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
  • Candlewood Shores Recreation Area: 1.5 mi
  • Sweetcake Mountain Preserve: 1.6 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • 9-11 Memorial: 7.0 mi
  • The Vietnam War Monument: 7.3 mi
  • The Korean War Monument: 7.3 mi
  • War Memorial: 7.4 mi
  • Lions Club: 7.5 mi
Museums: 46
Waterfalls: 35
  • Lower Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Upper Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Quaker Brook Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Saugatuck Falls: 12.9 mi
  • Cascades: 14.0 mi
Gardens: 31
  • Personal Gardens: 6.2 mi
  • Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 7.7 mi
  • Butterfly Maze: 7.7 mi
  • Garden Of Ideas: 12.0 mi
  • Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 13.7 mi
Attractions: 19
Beaches: 17
Artworks: 12
  • greek letter pi: 5.3 mi
  • Lesser Evil: 5.7 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 8.7 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 11.6 mi
  • Tonka Truck Tree: 14.4 mi
Cliffs: 11
Picnic sites: 9
  • Oak Grove: 16.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 16.9 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 17.0 mi
  • Pond View: 17.0 mi
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 17.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Danbury Rest Area: 7.6 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 13.8 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 13.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Covered bridges: 1
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 16.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of New Farfield Town Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Observatory HillNNW 330°405 m7.8 mi
Birch HillWNW 295°386 m5.2 mi
Cranberry MountainW 280°376 m5.1 mi
Branch HillNNW 329°370 m6.5 mi
Seeley HillNNW 331°368 m8.2 mi
Turner MountainNNW 337°362 m7.0 mi
Beaver Bog MountainWNW 282°358 m2.7 mi
Wanzer MountainNNW 331°346 m3.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3019:06
June solstice05:2119:5020:32
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1815:4316:28

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506069757265534233
Precip in3.73.34.44.24.24.85.04.94.95.04.04.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Toad16 obs
  • Bald Eagle13 obs
  • ground-ivy11 obs
  • eastern poison ivy11 obs
  • winged euonymus10 obs
  • striped maple9 obs
  • American pokeweed9 obs
  • garlic mustard9 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/43436485

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