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Powder Hollow Park

Powder Hollow Park from directly overhead

Powder Hollow Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 29 m. Chestnut Hill stands 332 m to the east, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Hazardville Playground, a park 0.5 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 21 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

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Coordinates41.98644, -72.54542

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hazardville Playground: 0.5 mi
  • Brainard Memorial Park: 2.6 mi
  • Enfield Town Green: 2.8 mi
  • D'Aleo Park: 2.8 mi
  • Whitacres Park: 3.0 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
Peaks
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Side Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Azalea Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Back Garden: 6.3 mi
  • Front Garden: 6.3 mi
Artworks
  • The Three Graces: 6.5 mi
  • Miles Morgan: 8.2 mi
  • 1856 City Hall Bell: 8.3 mi
  • Birdicus Gigantium: 8.3 mi
  • Horton Court: 8.4 mi
Attractions: 47
  • New England Sky Screamer: 5.2 mi
  • Goat Rock: 7.8 mi
  • HU-16E "Albatross": 8.0 mi
  • A-3B "Skywarrior": 8.0 mi
  • C-7A "Caribou": 8.0 mi
Waterfalls: 31
  • Hockanum Falls: 9.7 mi
  • Cascade: 9.9 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 11.6 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 14.4 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 15.7 mi
Cliffs: 16
  • Indian Leap: 12.4 mi
  • Flag Rock: 14.4 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 19.2 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 19.2 mi
  • Garden Wall: 19.3 mi
Beaches: 9
Springs: 5
  • Rd: 15.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 15.4 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 15.5 mi
  • Big Spring: 23.5 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 23.8 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 5.1 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 10.9 mi
  • Picnic: 23.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 14.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 14.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Powder Hollow Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chestnut HillE 84°332 m9.8 mi
Moon MountainENE 58°330 m11.3 mi
Rattlesnake HillENE 66°323 m7.8 mi
Bald MountainE 87°322 m6.9 mi
Pine MountainENE 62°319 m8.3 mi
Soapstone MountainESE 106°315 m7.1 mi
Bald MountainENE 65°303 m8.2 mi
Perkins MountainENE 69°298 m7.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2619:02
June solstice05:1619:4820:30
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1615:3716:22

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, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Christmas fern10 obs
  • winged euonymus10 obs
  • Green Frog9 obs
  • Western Honey Bee8 obs
  • American pokeweed8 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel7 obs
  • Japanese barberry7 obs
  • eastern poison ivy7 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/43442249

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