Sterling Park
Sterling Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Barn Hill stands 200 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is National Helicopter Museum Inc, a museum 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.1 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
How to reach it
- 3.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 0.2 mi
- Catharine B Mitchell Museum: 0.3 mi
- Connecticut Air & Space Center: 1.8 mi
- Model Railroad Museum: 3.1 mi
- Boothe Memorial Museum: 3.2 mi
- Long Brook Park: 0.4 mi
- Shakespeare Park: 0.5 mi
- Bond's Dock: 0.6 mi
- Long Brook Park: 0.9 mi
- High Park: 0.9 mi
- Success Hill: 1.3 mi
- Academy Hill: 1.4 mi
- Second Hill: 2.2 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.5 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 3.9 mi
- Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area: 1.3 mi
- Wooster Park: 1.6 mi
- Veterans Park: 2.3 mi
- Spring Pond Park: 2.8 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Liberty Rock: 2.1 mi
- White Oak: 2.6 mi
- Ye Olde King's Highway: 2.6 mi
- Old Mill Green: 2.6 mi
- Perry Memorial Archway: 3.7 mi
- Short Beach: 2.5 mi
- Walnut Beach: 2.8 mi
- Long Beach: 2.9 mi
- Lordship Beach: 2.9 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 3.1 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 3.2 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 4.1 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 5.7 mi
- Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 7.1 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 4.9 mi
- Cascades: 6.0 mi
- Cascade: 6.9 mi
- Cascade: 9.3 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 10.1 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 3.2 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 3.2 mi
- Heron: 4.6 mi
- Mother Mary: 5.1 mi
- An American Dream: 12.8 mi
- Burr Homestead: 7.2 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 8.3 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 8.5 mi
- Earthplace: 13.4 mi
- 3-town marker: 13.6 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 13.1 mi
- Chimney Corner: 22.0 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 22.2 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 22.5 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 23.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 2.9 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 4.6 mi
- Cedar Grove: 10.1 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 10.1 mi
- Pond View: 10.2 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 3.0 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 3.1 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 3.1 mi
- Fog Signal House: 3.1 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 14.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 7.4 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 7.4 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 18.8 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 18.8 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 24.3 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 2.9 mi
- Cuties Island: 22.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 14.8 mi
- The Silver Spring: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Sterling Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barn Hill | NNW 345° | 200 m | 10.9 mi |
| Moose Hill | NNW 338° | 198 m | 10.5 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNW 345° | 192 m | 9.8 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NNW 333° | 189 m | 10.2 mi |
| Upper White Hills | N 353° | 188 m | 10.9 mi |
| Tashua Hill | NW 307° | 179 m | 7.8 mi |
| Walnut Tree Hill | NNW 346° | 171 m | 8.2 mi |
| Round Hill | WNW 298° | 170 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 2 mi away.
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron79 obs
- Osprey43 obs
- Song Sparrow42 obs
- Monarch37 obs
- American Black Duck36 obs
- Diamondback Terrapin36 obs
- Ring-billed Gull35 obs
- Gadwall34 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/359287267
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