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Paradise Green Park

Paradise Green Park from directly overhead

Paradise Green Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Brook Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.0 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
15 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.20856, -73.13131

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Long Brook Park: 0.3 mi
  • Roger Sherman Baldwin Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sterling Park: 1.1 mi
  • Entrance to Devon: 1.3 mi
  • Clover Park: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Peaks
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 2.1 mi
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 4.6 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 4.7 mi
  • Drew Park Community Gardens: 5.8 mi
  • Eklund Garden: 6.6 mi
Beaches
Waterfalls: 30
  • Farmill River Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Cascades: 4.9 mi
  • Cascade: 5.7 mi
  • Cascade: 8.4 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 9.0 mi
Artworks: 27
  • Miniature Windmill: 2.2 mi
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 2.2 mi
  • Heron: 3.7 mi
  • Mother Mary: 4.1 mi
  • An American Dream: 12.1 mi
Attractions: 18
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 7.4 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 7.8 mi
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 7.9 mi
  • 3-town marker: 13.2 mi
  • Earthplace: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Picnic Grove: 2.6 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 4.5 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 9.2 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 9.2 mi
  • Pond View: 9.2 mi
Cliffs: 8
Lighthouses: 6
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 6.5 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 6.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 19.1 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 19.1 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 23.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Paradise Green Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillN 4°202 m10.7 mi
Barn HillNNW 344°200 m9.8 mi
Moose HillNNW 336°198 m9.4 mi
Israel HillNNW 343°192 m8.7 mi
Bugg HillNNW 330°189 m9.2 mi
Upper White HillsN 352°188 m9.8 mi
Bagburn HillNNW 343°186 m11.0 mi
Tashua HillWNW 300°179 m7.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2119:4820:30
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel36 obs
  • Monarch23 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron21 obs
  • Northern Cardinal21 obs
  • Black Swallowtail21 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly19 obs
  • Huron Skipper17 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee15 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/479592355

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