Sherman Town Park
Sherman Town Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 140 m. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west-northwest, 2.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Sherman Town Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 27 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 140 m
How to reach it
- 26.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Colonial Park: 0.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 2.7 mi
- Sega Meadows Park: 2.9 mi
- Little League Field: 2.9 mi
- Hubbell Mountain Farm: 0.7 mi
- Mallory Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Irene's Woods Preserve: 0.9 mi
- West Briggs Hill Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Towner Hill Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Hubbell Hill: 0.8 mi
- Briggs Hill: 1.0 mi
- Towner Hill: 1.4 mi
- Turner Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Branch Hill: 2.0 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 2.0 mi
- Jim Hulton: 3.7 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 8.1 mi
- Mill Ruins: 10.1 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 10.8 mi
- Northrop House: 0.6 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 4.2 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 4.5 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 9.1 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 10.2 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 2.7 mi
- Lower Falls: 4.7 mi
- Upper Falls: 4.7 mi
- Cascades: 8.4 mi
- New Preston Falls: 10.1 mi
- Personal Gardens: 6.7 mi
- Judea Garden: 11.2 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 13.3 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 13.3 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 14.7 mi
- New Milford Tank: 4.2 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 6.7 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 8.1 mi
- Indian village: 9.1 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 12.7 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 0.1 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 0.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 2.9 mi
- North Beach: 6.2 mi
- South Beach: 6.7 mi
- Kelly Slide: 2.3 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.2 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 10.3 mi
- Grand Staircase: 10.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 10.9 mi
- Lesser Evil: 11.3 mi
- Jean Widmark: 11.5 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 14.3 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 19.9 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 21.5 mi
- Oak Grove: 21.8 mi
- Pond View: 22.0 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 22.0 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 22.0 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 12.1 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 12.1 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 12.6 mi
- Dicktown: 16.0 mi
- Dudley Town: 17.9 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 7.4 mi
- The Silver Spring: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Sherman Town Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | WNW 296° | 405 m | 2.9 mi |
| Bear Hill | NE 38° | 390 m | 7.7 mi |
| Birch Hill | SW 226° | 386 m | 4.7 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | SW 219° | 376 m | 5.9 mi |
| West Mountain | WNW 293° | 373 m | 7.3 mi |
| Branch Hill | W 274° | 370 m | 2.0 mi |
| Seeley Hill | WNW 303° | 368 m | 3.1 mi |
| Turner Mountain | NW 304° | 362 m | 1.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
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 | 25 | 28 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carmel 4N, 11 mi away.
- Spongy Moth6 obs
- Wild Turkey5 obs
- Bobcat4 obs
- wild geranium4 obs
- common milkweed4 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage4 obs
- tree-of-heaven4 obs
- creeping thistle4 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/359287176
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 17 mi
- Cold Spring · 26 mi
- Highlands · 29 mi
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