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Riverview Park

Riverview Park from directly overhead

Riverview Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 36 m. Moose Hill stands 231 m to the north, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Coon Hollow Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.3 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.32342, -73.10273

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Coon Hollow Park: 0.5 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • Derby Greenway: 1.1 mi
  • O'Sullivan's Island Recreation Park: 1.2 mi
  • Pine Lot Fields: 1.3 mi
Museums
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Peaks
Beaches
  • Zoar Beach: 5.5 mi
  • Jackson Cove Beach: 7.6 mi
  • Fort Trumbull Beach: 8.3 mi
  • Gulf Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Silver Beach: 8.6 mi
Gardens: 52
Waterfalls: 38
  • Indian Well Falls: 1.6 mi
  • Cascade: 2.5 mi
  • Cascades: 3.3 mi
  • Cascade: 4.0 mi
  • Farmill River Falls: 4.4 mi
Attractions: 25
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 6.1 mi
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 6.9 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 6.9 mi
  • Millstone: 9.8 mi
  • Millstone: 9.9 mi
Artworks: 20
Cliffs: 10
Rest areas: 8
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.1 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 19.2 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 20.0 mi
  • Danbury Rest Area: 22.1 mi
Picnic sites: 7
  • Pond View: 6.9 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 7.0 mi
  • Oak Grove: 7.4 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 7.5 mi
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 8.4 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Riverview Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Moose HillN 351°231 m5.5 mi
Fivemile HillNNW 345°223 m7.4 mi
Osborn HillNW 312°206 m7.8 mi
Mount PisgahNNW 336°205 m8.8 mi
Great HillNNW 345°202 m2.9 mi
Barn HillWNW 289°200 m4.5 mi
Rock RimmonNNE 18°199 m7.5 mi
Moose HillW 277°198 m5.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2019:4820:30
September equinox06:4118:1518:51
December solstice07:1615:4216:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272937485868737264524232
Precip in3.93.64.74.74.03.94.34.64.45.04.24.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ansonia 1 NE, 2 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel36 obs
  • Rose campion27 obs
  • Huron Skipper21 obs
  • Monarch20 obs
  • Northern Cardinal17 obs
  • Pickerel Frog17 obs
  • wineberry15 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly15 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 way/43437124

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