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Short Beach Park

Short Beach Park from directly overhead

Short Beach Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Moose Hill stands 198 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Short Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 5.5 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.16015, -73.11145

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
Nature reserves
Museums
Peaks
  • Academy Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Success Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Second Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Knobb Hill: 5.0 mi
  • Meetinghouse Hill: 5.2 mi
Parks
Historic sites
Gardens: 55
  • Urban Roots Bridgeport: 5.0 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 5.2 mi
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 6.6 mi
  • Drew Park Community Gardens: 6.9 mi
  • Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 7.3 mi
Waterfalls: 30
  • Farmill River Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Cascades: 8.2 mi
  • Cascade: 9.1 mi
  • Cascade: 10.7 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 12.3 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Windmill: 5.2 mi
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
  • Heron: 7.0 mi
  • Mother Mary: 7.6 mi
  • An American Dream: 13.5 mi
Attractions: 17
  • Burr Homestead: 7.4 mi
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 9.3 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 10.7 mi
  • Earthplace: 14.0 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 15.1 mi
Picnic sites: 12
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 4.8 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.0 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 12.5 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 12.5 mi
  • Pond View: 12.6 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Cliffs: 8
  • Forbes Bluff: 13.3 mi
  • Duck Island Bluff: 21.4 mi
  • Chimney Corner: 21.6 mi
  • Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 23.9 mi
  • Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 24.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 8.9 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 8.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 19.4 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Short Beach Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Moose HillNNW 338°198 m12.9 mi
Israel HillNNW 343°192 m12.2 mi
Bugg HillNNW 334°189 m12.6 mi
Tashua HillNW 314°179 m10.0 mi
Walnut Tree HillNNW 343°171 m10.6 mi
Round HillNW 306°170 m10.9 mi
Hirams HillNW 321°167 m12.3 mi
Booth HillNNW 335°160 m9.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:2819:05
June solstice05:2119:4820:29
September equinox06:4118:1518:52
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Oystercatcher187 obs
  • American Herring Gull177 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron171 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab131 obs
  • Osprey126 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull116 obs
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper114 obs
  • Brant112 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/43398968

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