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Percival Field

Percival Field from directly overhead

Percival Field is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the west, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Paper Goods Pond Park, a park 0.2 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.62764, -72.77939

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Paper Goods Pond Park: 0.2 mi
  • Deming Park: 0.7 mi
  • Griswold Park: 0.8 mi
  • Volunteer Park: 1.0 mi
  • Murray Heights Playground: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Waterfalls
  • Intermittent Cascade: 1.6 mi
  • Westfield Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Mill Pond Falls: 5.2 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Cascades: 7.8 mi
Gardens
Attractions
Artworks: 51
Cliffs: 21
  • Green Wall: 5.7 mi
  • Porcupine Hole: 5.8 mi
  • South Wall: 9.6 mi
  • Solar Panel: 9.7 mi
  • Superstructure: 9.7 mi
Beaches: 8
Rest areas: 3
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 5.4 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 7.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 11.6 mi
Springs: 3
  • Cold Spring: 21.9 mi
  • Hermit spring: 21.9 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 23.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 13.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Percival Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainW 280°313 m8.8 mi
Lindsley HillW 268°312 m9.6 mi
West PeakSW 216°301 m5.6 mi
Compounce MountainW 272°290 m8.3 mi
Southington MountainWSW 258°281 m8.9 mi
East PeakSSW 211°277 m5.7 mi
Higby MountainSSE 159°272 m5.6 mi
Castle RockWNW 284°251 m8.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1515:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.

  • winged euonymus38 obs
  • bloodroot24 obs
  • American cancer-root21 obs
  • common mugwort20 obs
  • mapleleaf viburnum20 obs
  • garlic mustard19 obs
  • Japanese barberry19 obs
  • Virginia saxifrage19 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43440448

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