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Rotary Field

Rotary Field from directly overhead

Rotary Field is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Rotary Field Reserve Land, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 30 miles off.

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What the record says

Elevation
42 m

What to expect

Operated by
Town of Glastonbury

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.69771, -72.58192

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Orchard Hill Club: 0.9 mi
  • Woodbridge Park: 1.1 mi
  • Hubbard Green Park: 1.3 mi
  • Clark Field: 1.3 mi
  • Glastonbury Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
Museums
Peaks
Waterfalls
  • Cascades: 2.3 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Blackledge Falls: 6.4 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 6.4 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Hay Tedder: 2.9 mi
  • Constitution Oak: 3.8 mi
  • Car Wreck: 4.1 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 4.5 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 6.6 mi
Artworks
Gardens: 54
Cliffs: 20
  • Crow Point: 2.0 mi
  • Flag Rock: 9.4 mi
  • South Wall: 12.2 mi
  • Solar Panel: 12.2 mi
  • Superstructure: 12.2 mi
Beaches: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.9 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 18.8 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 19.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 20.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 23.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 24.2 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 19.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Rotary Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckE 82°273 m5.7 mi
John Tom HillE 82°272 m5.7 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSE 157°265 m5.1 mi
Box HillNE 42°252 m9.8 mi
Clark HillSSE 158°241 m7.7 mi
Lookout MountainNE 51°237 m6.4 mi
Kongscut MountainE 92°234 m4.1 mi
Birch MountainNE 55°233 m6.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1515:3916:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 4 mi away.

  • garlic mustard35 obs
  • striped wintergreen27 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage25 obs
  • American beech23 obs
  • eastern poison ivy23 obs
  • northern spicebush21 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel20 obs
  • yellow trout lily18 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/947591125

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