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Quinnipiac Park

Quinnipiac Park from directly overhead

Quinnipiac Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 55 m. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Trumbull Park, a park 0.3 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
55 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.66510, -72.85482

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Attractions
Waterfalls
  • Intermittent Cascade: 3.1 mi
  • Cascades: 4.1 mi
  • Mill Pond Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Whigville Falls: 7.1 mi
Gardens
Artworks: 49
Cliffs: 20
  • Green Wall: 2.7 mi
  • Porcupine Hole: 2.8 mi
  • South Wall: 7.5 mi
  • Solar Panel: 7.6 mi
  • Superstructure: 7.6 mi
Beaches: 9
Springs: 5
  • Hermit spring: 17.5 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 20.7 mi
  • Big Spring: 21.3 mi
  • Cold Spring: 23.6 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 6.9 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.6 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 14.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 9.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Johnnycake MountainNW 311°354 m9.5 mi
South MountainWSW 257°313 m4.9 mi
Lindsley HillWSW 243°312 m6.4 mi
Clinton HillWSW 248°303 m8.6 mi
West PeakS 175°301 m7.1 mi
Scranton MountainNW 319°300 m8.8 mi
Mount HopeWNW 300°297 m7.0 mi
Becar HillWSW 246°297 m7.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485968737164524233
Precip in3.73.44.24.34.24.84.45.15.05.73.94.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 10 mi away.

  • Painted Turtle16 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk15 obs
  • Common Garter Snake10 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider9 obs
  • American Toad9 obs
  • Canada Goose8 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird8 obs
  • sassafras8 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 node/359288510

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