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Nut Plains Park

Nut Plains Park from directly overhead

Nut Plains Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Trimountain stands 232 m to the north-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Nut Plains Woods, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 21 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

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Coordinates41.31611, -72.67503

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Long Hill Park: 1.6 mi
  • Mill Pond Park: 1.9 mi
  • Olmsted Outlook: 2.3 mi
  • Guilford Town Green: 2.3 mi
  • Rollwood Park: 2.7 mi
Museums
Historic sites
  • Guilford Volunteer Firefighters' Memorial: 2.3 mi
  • Guilford Vietnam War Memorial: 2.3 mi
  • Guilford Granite: 2.3 mi
  • Guilford Soldiers Monument: 2.3 mi
  • Guilford World War II Memorial: 2.4 mi
Beaches
Waterfalls: 50
  • Cascade: 3.4 mi
  • Nineveh Falls: 4.3 mi
  • Stair Brook Falls: 7.9 mi
  • Clark Creek Falls: 13.7 mi
  • Intermittent Cascade: 13.8 mi
Gardens: 42
Attractions: 29
  • Dinosaur Rock: 2.7 mi
  • Bear Cave: 4.7 mi
  • Dodge Dump Truck: 6.1 mi
  • Lavender Pond Farm: 7.4 mi
  • Selectmen's Stones: 8.1 mi
Artworks: 22
Cliffs: 6
Rest areas: 6
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 11.3 mi
  • Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 12.8 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 16.8 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.5 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.5 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 20.6 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
Springs: 1
Ghost towns: 1
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
TrimountainNNW 342°232 m10.4 mi
Fowler MountainNNW 339°230 m9.4 mi
Pistapaug MountainNNW 338°210 m8.6 mi
Goose HillNNE 33°201 m10.5 mi
Mount PisgahN 0°196 m9.0 mi
Totoket MountainNW 320°176 m7.3 mi
Quonnipaug MountainNNW 346°167 m5.6 mi
East SugarloafNW 325°156 m5.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1819:4620:28
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1415:4116:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313239495968747366554536
Precip in2.72.83.74.23.53.53.43.64.03.83.13.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 12 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Tailed-Blue22 obs
  • striped wintergreen21 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage20 obs
  • Diamondback Terrapin18 obs
  • Jack-in-the-Pulpit17 obs
  • Wood Frog15 obs
  • Canada mayflower15 obs
  • mountain laurel14 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/43438860

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