Quirk Park
Quirk Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 53 m. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the west-northwest, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Tunxis Mead Park, a park 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 53 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tunxis Mead Park: 0.3 mi
- Yodkin-Morin Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Carrington Park: 2.1 mi
- Farmington Club: 2.5 mi
- Suburban Park: 2.5 mi
- State of CT, Shade Swamp Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Town Open Space (Roma Drive) 2 Parcels: 0.7 mi
- Town Open Space (New Britain Avenue): 0.7 mi
- Town Open Space (Walnut Farms Subdiv.)3Parcels: 0.8 mi
- Town Open Space (Roma Drive) 2 Parcels: 0.8 mi
- Vincent H. Core Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 2.5 mi
- plinth: 3.2 mi
- Nature Center Ruins: 4.6 mi
- Stone House Ruins: 4.6 mi
- Day-Lewis Museum: 1.4 mi
- Stanley-Whitman House Museum: 1.8 mi
- Hill Stead Museum: 2.0 mi
- Unionville Museum: 2.6 mi
- Plainville Historic Center: 4.1 mi
- Farmington Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Campground Hill: 3.0 mi
- Huckleberry Hill: 3.1 mi
- Mine Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 2.5 mi
- Carousel: 2.5 mi
- The Carrals: 2.5 mi
- Trolley Offices Sign: 2.5 mi
- Kettles: 2.5 mi
- Whigville Falls: 5.1 mi
- Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 5.4 mi
- Seven Steps Falls: 5.9 mi
- Fetzer Falls: 5.9 mi
- Burlington Falls: 6.7 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 0.7 mi
- Sunken Garden: 2.0 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 5.6 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 6.3 mi
- 5-Sense Garden: 6.3 mi
- Home: 5.9 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 6.4 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 7.6 mi
- Painted Cow: 7.8 mi
- Sedna: 7.9 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 2.3 mi
- Green Wall: 2.4 mi
- South Wall: 3.9 mi
- Solar Panel: 3.9 mi
- Superstructure: 3.9 mi
- Boating Side: 11.5 mi
- Waterfront: 11.6 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 12.9 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 14.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 16.1 mi
- Hermit spring: 14.0 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 15.3 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 17.1 mi
- Big Spring: 17.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 11.1 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.5 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 19.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 11.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 25.0 mi
- Gay City State Park: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Quirk Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnnycake Mountain | WNW 284° | 354 m | 7.3 mi |
| South Mountain | SW 220° | 313 m | 7.2 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | SW 217° | 312 m | 9.2 mi |
| Scranton Mountain | WNW 291° | 300 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Hope | W 261° | 297 m | 6.0 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | SSW 212° | 290 m | 7.9 mi |
| Schoolhouse Hill | WNW 303° | 288 m | 7.6 mi |
| Holt Hill | WSW 257° | 288 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 6 mi away.
- American Black Bear18 obs
- American pokeweed16 obs
- Western Honey Bee13 obs
- garlic mustard13 obs
- Common Garter Snake11 obs
- Ghost Pipe11 obs
- staghorn sumac11 obs
- Great Blue Heron10 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/43442334
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 20 mi
- Longmeadow · 26 mi
- Tolland · 27 mi
- Somers · 28 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 29 mi
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