Plattwood Park
Plattwood Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 39 m. Goose Hill stands 201 m to the northwest, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Incarnation Center, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 17 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 39 m
How to reach it
- 17.1 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 28.4 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Incarnation Center: 0.7 mi
- Congregational Nature Sanctuary: 1.0 mi
- Whittlesey Brook Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Nature Trail Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Walter E. Mislick Memorial Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Post Hill: 0.9 mi
- Kelsey Hill: 1.0 mi
- Bushy Hill: 1.1 mi
- Orchard Hill: 1.4 mi
- Fountain Hill: 2.2 mi
- Museum of Fife and Drum: 1.2 mi
- Chester Historical Society Museum at the Mill: 2.6 mi
- Essex Steam Train & Riverboat: 3.2 mi
- Essex Historical Society: 3.7 mi
- Connecticut River Museum: 4.2 mi
- Park Triangle: 1.6 mi
- Comstock Park: 1.8 mi
- Devitt Field: 1.9 mi
- Messerschmidt Pond Boat Launch: 2.3 mi
- North Quarter Park: 2.9 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 3.5 mi
- Collier's Hut Remains: 5.2 mi
- Killingworth's World War Heroes: 5.3 mi
- In Memorium Albert H. Cyphers Sr.: 5.5 mi
- Westbrook: 5.5 mi
- Quotonset Beach: 6.0 mi
- Middle Beach: 6.1 mi
- Stannard Beach: 6.2 mi
- West Beach: 6.3 mi
- Chapman Beach: 6.5 mi
- Memorial Garden: 5.2 mi
- Memorial Garden: 6.1 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.9 mi
- Native Plant Gardens: 9.2 mi
- Madison Community Gardens: 9.3 mi
- Cascade: 5.3 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 5.5 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 6.4 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 6.6 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 7.8 mi
- Stone Table: 1.1 mi
- Historic Ferry: 4.1 mi
- Lavender Pond Farm: 4.5 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 6.9 mi
- tri-town marker: 9.5 mi
- Totem Pole: 7.0 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 8.0 mi
- James Madison: 9.3 mi
- snake: 11.3 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 13.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 1.5 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 6.0 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 12.0 mi
- Bluff Head: 12.5 mi
- Chimney Corner: 15.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 5.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 17.6 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 19.4 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 8.7 mi
- Gay City State Park: 25.0 mi
- Skate Hut: 17.9 mi
- Powder House: 17.9 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 9.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Plattwood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goose Hill | NW 316° | 201 m | 7.6 mi |
| Bald Hill | NNE 19° | 167 m | 7.1 mi |
| Long Hill | NNW 338° | 154 m | 6.0 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 333° | 140 m | 5.4 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 332° | 138 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Archer | ENE 64° | 136 m | 6.1 mi |
| Wig Hill | NNW 337° | 128 m | 3.0 mi |
| Tower Hill | WSW 258° | 126 m | 2.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:46 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:40 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 19 mi away.
- Diamondback Terrapin36 obs
- Pickerel Frog14 obs
- Wood Frog10 obs
- American wintergreen9 obs
- autumn olive9 obs
- striped wintergreen9 obs
- Spotted Salamander8 obs
- American pokeweed8 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/43439169
Day trips start here
- Essex · 4 mi
- Old Saybrook · 6 mi
- Old Lyme · 9 mi
- East Lyme · 12 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 16 mi
- Waterford · 16 mi
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