River Road Park
River Road Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Prentice Mountain stands 163 m to the north, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Mystic River Boat Launch, a park 0.2 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 7.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
How to reach it
- 7.0 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 15.9 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 16.9 mi off the Shannock Road
- 20.8 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mystic River Boat Launch: 0.2 mi
- Fieldcrest Park: 0.8 mi
- Mystic River Boathouse Park: 0.9 mi
- Mystic Little League Field: 1.0 mi
- Old Mystic Playground: 1.1 mi
- Mystic Community Center Open Space: 0.2 mi
- Downes Marsh: 0.4 mi
- Lozier Subdivision Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Bindloss Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Fish Subdivision Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Thompson Exhibition Building: 1.0 mi
- Old Mystic History Center: 1.0 mi
- Children's Museum: 1.0 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 1.1 mi
- Denison Homestead: 1.4 mi
- Mystic Seaport Museum First Building: 1.0 mi
- Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan: 1.0 mi
- Master Shipbuilders: 1.1 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Noank Remembers Memorial Bell: 3.4 mi
- Pequot Hill: 1.1 mi
- Quoketaug Hill: 1.6 mi
- Gallup Hill: 2.6 mi
- Pine Hill: 2.6 mi
- Fort Hill: 3.0 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 1.1 mi
- Williams Beach: 2.2 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 3.7 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 3.8 mi
- Groton Beach: 4.5 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 2.5 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 3.3 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 5.4 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 5.5 mi
- The Whale: 6.7 mi
- Giant Gnome: 0.6 mi
- Mjolnir: 0.6 mi
- Penguin: 0.8 mi
- Mystic Blue: 1.0 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 1.6 mi
- Cascade: 3.0 mi
- Cascade: 3.2 mi
- Yantic Falls: 12.6 mi
- Silver Falls: 13.3 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 19.5 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 7.0 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 7.0 mi
- Sprout Garden: 7.3 mi
- Azalea Garden: 7.4 mi
- Laurel Walk: 7.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 0.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 10.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 20.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 24.8 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 7.6 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 7.6 mi
- Oil Shed: 7.6 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 7.6 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 21.0 mi
- Skate Hut: 8.0 mi
- Powder House: 8.1 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 15.6 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 15.8 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 20.0 mi
- Crow Head: 21.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 21.9 mi
- Clay Head: 24.1 mi
- Old Spring: 3.2 mi
- Factory Pond: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.7 miles of River Road Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prentice Mountain | N 10° | 163 m | 8.4 mi |
| Barns Hill | NNE 18° | 155 m | 8.5 mi |
| Stewart Hill | NNE 32° | 149 m | 8.2 mi |
| Ayer Hill | N 4° | 144 m | 7.3 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | NNE 21° | 139 m | 6.2 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | NNE 27° | 139 m | 7.3 mi |
| Swantown Hill | NNE 19° | 132 m | 7.1 mi |
| Church Hill | NNW 342° | 120 m | 5.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:44 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 4 mi away.
- Mallard149 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant65 obs
- Osprey64 obs
- Painted Turtle59 obs
- Monarch54 obs
- House Sparrow50 obs
- American Herring Gull48 obs
- Great Blue Heron42 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 node/359280450
Day trips start here
- Mystic · 2 mi
- Stonington · 3 mi
- Groton · 4 mi
- Ledyard · 5 mi
- North Stonington · 6 mi
- New London · 7 mi
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