Tanglewood Park
Tanglewood Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Wintechog Hill stands 139 m to the north-northeast, 10.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Haley Farm State Park, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 10 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 10.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 17.2 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 19.1 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.8 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Haley Farm State Park: 0.2 mi
- Anderson Woodlands: 0.5 mi
- Town’s End: 1.0 mi
- Beebe Pond Park: 1.1 mi
- Ram Point: 1.4 mi
- Haley Farm Barn: 0.3 mi
- Noank Remembers Memorial Bell: 0.6 mi
- Gov. John Winthrop Jr. Homestead: 1.5 mi
- Gov. John Winthrop Jr. Homestead: 1.5 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Noank Community Park and Garden: 0.4 mi
- Beebe Cove Vista: 0.6 mi
- Beebe Cove Vista: 0.6 mi
- Beebe Cove Vista: 0.6 mi
- Beebe Cove Vista: 0.6 mi
- Sylvan Street Museum & Research Center/Mary C. Anderson Building: 0.8 mi
- Mystic Museum of Art: 2.3 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 3.0 mi
- Children's Museum: 3.1 mi
- Thompson Exhibition Building: 3.1 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 1.0 mi
- Groton Long Point South Beach: 1.5 mi
- Groton Beach: 1.6 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 1.8 mi
- Bluff Point Beach: 2.0 mi
- Fort Hill: 1.4 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.8 mi
- Hazelnut Hill: 2.2 mi
- Pequot Hill: 2.7 mi
- Shack Hill: 3.6 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 2.4 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 2.9 mi
- Mystic Blue: 3.1 mi
- Mjolnir: 3.9 mi
- Giant Gnome: 3.9 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 4.0 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 4.0 mi
- The Whale: 5.0 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 7.0 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 7.1 mi
- Cascade: 1.9 mi
- Cascade: 2.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 12.6 mi
- Yantic Falls: 14.9 mi
- Cascade: 20.4 mi
- Sensory Garden: 5.7 mi
- Cutting Garden: 6.0 mi
- East Garden: 6.0 mi
- West Garden: 6.0 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 6.0 mi
- Crow Head: 17.2 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 18.7 mi
- Ram Head: 22.5 mi
- Acabonack Cliff: 22.6 mi
- Hedges Bank: 22.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 3.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 11.6 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 22.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 23.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 23.5 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 7.7 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 7.7 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 7.7 mi
- Oil Shed: 7.7 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 18.2 mi
- Powder House: 6.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 17.7 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 17.8 mi
- Old Spring: 6.4 mi
- Factory Pond: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Tanglewood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wintechog Hill | NNE 24° | 139 m | 10.0 mi |
| Church Hill | N 1° | 120 m | 8.8 mi |
| Lantern Hill | NNE 19° | 118 m | 9.6 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | NNW 332° | 108 m | 5.7 mi |
| Vinegar Hill | NNW 338° | 108 m | 7.1 mi |
| Haughton Mountain | NW 326° | 103 m | 9.8 mi |
| Jeremy Hill | NE 39° | 101 m | 8.4 mi |
| Great Hill | WNW 302° | 99 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:44 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 2 mi away.
- Great Blue Heron121 obs
- Great Egret90 obs
- White-tailed Deer65 obs
- Osprey62 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant56 obs
- rugosa rose42 obs
- sassafras39 obs
- American wintergreen39 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 way/43440091
Day trips start here
- Groton · 2 mi
- Mystic · 3 mi
- New London · 5 mi
- Stonington · 6 mi
- Ledyard · 8 mi
- Watch Hill · 8 mi
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