Trap Pond State Park
Trap Pond State Park is a park in Delaware, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Backbone Hill stands 12 m to the south-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Fox Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Blue Crab Scenic Byway passes 9.1 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 9.1 mi off the Blue Crab Scenic Byway
- 24.7 mi off the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Selfie Point · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fox Park: 0.9 mi
- Tidewater Park: 6.2 mi
- Delmar Park: 6.7 mi
- State Street Park: 7.2 mi
- Gordy Park: 7.7 mi
- Chesapeake Forest: 5.2 mi
- Chesapeake Forest: 6.2 mi
- Chesapeake Forest: 6.9 mi
- Chesapeake Forest: 7.0 mi
- Chesapeake Forest: 7.3 mi
- Bethel Heritage Museum: 8.6 mi
- Seaford Museum: 11.3 mi
- School House: 11.5 mi
- Nutter Marvel Carriage Museum: 11.5 mi
- Telephone Museum: 11.5 mi
- Bethel Church: 7.8 mi
- Civil War Monument: 11.4 mi
- Skip Gardner: 11.9 mi
- Blackwater Presbyterian Church: 16.7 mi
- Blackwater Presbyterian Church: 16.7 mi
- Naylor Mill Forest Trail: 10.0 mi
- Berlin Commercial Historic District: 19.2 mi
- Circus: 24.1 mi
- Freak Out: 24.6 mi
- Speedway: 24.6 mi
- Sammy the Seagull: 14.3 mi
- Back Bay Art Glass LLC: 15.8 mi
- Old Starting Gate: 20.6 mi
- Spinosaurus: 22.2 mi
- Triceratops: 22.2 mi
- North Laurel: 6.2 mi
- Banning: 19.8 mi
- Owens Station: 19.8 mi
- New Market: 20.1 mi
- Saint Johnstown: 20.4 mi
- Bayside Beach: 18.1 mi
- Cape Windsor: 21.9 mi
- Fenwick Beach: 22.9 mi
- Maryland Beach: 23.3 mi
- Sandy Hill Beach: 23.8 mi
- Camden Community Garden: 13.3 mi
- Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek: 13.7 mi
- Remembrance Garden: 19.4 mi
- Food Garden: 19.5 mi
- Backbone Hill: 19.9 mi
- Bottom Hills: 22.5 mi
- Dunker Hill: 24.2 mi
- Delia Hill: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Trap Pond State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backbone Hill | SSW 205° | 12 m | 19.9 mi |
| Dunker Hill | SW 223° | 3 m | 24.2 mi |
| Delia Hill | WSW 255° | 3 m | 24.6 mi |
| Bottom Hills | ENE 73° | 0 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:03 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 41 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 79 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salisbury 2N, 10 mi away.
- Fowler's Toad155 obs
- baldcypress133 obs
- Northern Red-bellied Cooter101 obs
- Common Watersnake100 obs
- Painted Turtle86 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink84 obs
- Great Blue Heron75 obs
- Ghost Pipe65 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/425398559
Day trips start here
- Rehoboth Beach · 25 mi
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