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Osgood Heights Park

Osgood Heights Park from directly overhead

Osgood Heights Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 119 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the west-southwest, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Osgood Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away.

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Coordinates41.68399, -72.80678
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Corbin Heights Park: 0.7 mi
  • Kosciuszko Park: 0.9 mi
  • Todzia Giramonti Majewski Memorial Parkade: 0.9 mi
  • Pulaski Park: 0.9 mi
  • Washington Park: 0.9 mi
Attractions
  • Hospital Rock: 1.1 mi
  • Will Warren's Den: 1.7 mi
  • Carousel: 6.5 mi
  • The Carrals: 6.5 mi
  • Trolley Offices Sign: 6.5 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Nature reserves
Waterfalls
  • Intermittent Cascade: 3.3 mi
  • Mill Pond Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Cascades: 6.9 mi
  • Whigville Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 8.5 mi
Gardens: 56
  • Sunken Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 3.4 mi
  • Wolcott Community Garden: 4.2 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 7.2 mi
  • 5-Sense Garden: 7.2 mi
Artworks: 45
Cliffs: 20
  • Green Wall: 1.8 mi
  • Porcupine Hole: 1.8 mi
  • South Wall: 5.7 mi
  • Solar Panel: 5.7 mi
  • Superstructure: 5.7 mi
Beaches: 10
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 18.0 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Big Spring: 21.2 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 21.2 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 9.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.6 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 15.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 12.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Osgood Heights Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainWSW 251°313 m7.7 mi
Lindsley HillWSW 243°312 m9.2 mi
West PeakSSW 193°301 m8.6 mi
Scranton MountainWNW 303°300 m9.8 mi
Mount HopeWNW 284°297 m8.8 mi
Compounce MountainWSW 242°290 m7.7 mi
Fall MountainWSW 254°284 m9.9 mi
Southington MountainSW 231°281 m9.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:03
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1615:4016:24

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, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard24 obs
  • Canada Goose13 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk11 obs
  • common mugwort11 obs
  • American pokeweed9 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee9 obs
  • red columbine8 obs
  • ground-ivy8 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/43436213

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