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Sycamore Hills Park

Sycamore Hills Park from directly overhead

Sycamore Hills Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 87 m. Cotton Hill stands 360 m to the west-northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Thompson-Osborne Refuge, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 29 miles off.

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The record

What the record says

Elevation
87 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.77469, -72.86589
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Parks
  • Suburban Park: 1.4 mi
  • Yodkin-Morin Memorial Park: 1.5 mi
  • Farmington Club: 2.6 mi
  • Tunxis Mead Park: 2.9 mi
  • Malerbo Rec Complex: 3.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 1.4 mi
  • Vincent H. Core Memorial: 3.2 mi
  • Newton C. Brainard: 3.9 mi
  • Asa Spaulding Porter: 4.3 mi
  • Kathy Ebersold plaque: 4.4 mi
Museums
Waterfalls
Attractions: 59
  • The Carrals: 1.3 mi
  • Swimming Pool: 1.3 mi
  • Trolley Offices Sign: 1.3 mi
  • Carousel: 1.3 mi
  • Kettles: 1.4 mi
Gardens: 59
  • Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 3.8 mi
  • Sunken Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Perennial Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 5.5 mi
Artworks: 47
Cliffs: 27
  • Superstructure: 3.4 mi
  • Solar Panel: 3.4 mi
  • South Wall: 3.4 mi
  • Garden Wall: 3.5 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 3.5 mi
Beaches: 10
Springs: 4
  • Hermit spring: 11.6 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 12.4 mi
  • Big Spring: 14.2 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 14.6 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 14.1 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 16.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 22.2 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 13.4 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Sycamore Hills Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cotton HillWNW 286°360 m9.5 mi
Ratlum MountainNNW 338°358 m8.5 mi
Johnnycake MountainWSW 258°354 m6.8 mi
Breezy HillNNW 331°327 m7.9 mi
South MountainSSW 206°313 m9.7 mi
Yellow MountainWNW 302°310 m8.3 mi
West LedgeN 357°305 m8.5 mi
Harmony HillW 277°304 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4016:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485968737164524233
Precip in3.73.44.24.34.24.84.45.15.05.73.94.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage45 obs
  • Wood Frog33 obs
  • eastern white pine29 obs
  • White-tailed Deer21 obs
  • garlic mustard18 obs
  • common mugwort16 obs
  • American Black Bear15 obs
  • Cattails14 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/43439847

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