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Osbourne Field

Osbourne Field from directly overhead

Osbourne Field is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Bald Mountain stands 322 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Soldiers Memorial Hall, a historic site 0.5 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 22 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
8 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.92052, -72.61863

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
  • Belaire Park: 0.7 mi
  • Town Hall Ball Park: 0.8 mi
  • Prospect Hill Park: 1.0 mi
  • Pesci Park: 1.1 mi
  • Green Manor Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Museums
Gardens: 60
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Back Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Side Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 5.3 mi
  • Front Garden: 5.3 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 56
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 4.2 mi
  • C-7A "Caribou": 4.3 mi
  • A-3B "Skywarrior": 4.3 mi
  • Smaug's Lair sign: 6.9 mi
  • The Dreamyard: 7.2 mi
Waterfalls: 48
Cliffs: 18
  • Flag Rock: 12.6 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 13.3 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 13.3 mi
  • Garden Wall: 13.4 mi
  • Superstructure: 14.1 mi
Beaches: 7
Springs: 7
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 19.0 mi
  • Rd: 19.0 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 19.0 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 19.6 mi
  • Big Spring: 19.8 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 8.4 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 15.3 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 16.6 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 16.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.3 miles of Osbourne Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bald MountainENE 65°322 m11.8 mi
Soapstone MountainENE 76°315 m10.9 mi
Paulk HillESE 103°294 m12.3 mi
Talcott MountainSW 231°276 m11.9 mi
Reed HillESE 115°275 m12.3 mi
The PinnacleENE 62°273 m12.3 mi
Newell HillE 87°264 m11.7 mi
Box HillSE 134°252 m11.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F273038506069747365534233
Precip in3.33.13.83.93.84.34.24.24.44.53.54.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • ground-ivy43 obs
  • Common Raccoon37 obs
  • sensitive fern36 obs
  • Red Clover35 obs
  • striped wintergreen34 obs
  • common milkweed32 obs
  • garlic mustard29 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage28 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/43440719

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