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Veteran's Memorial Park (Spring Pond)

Veteran's Memorial Park (Spring Pond) from directly overhead

Veteran's Memorial Park (Spring Pond) is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Chapel Hill Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 29 miles off.

Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee

The record

What the record says

Elevation
16 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of South Windsor
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.81412, -72.59932
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Attractions
Peaks
Parks
Gardens
  • Growing Roots Community Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 2.4 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Waterfalls: 56
  • Center Springs Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Talcott Ravine: 5.8 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Case Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 8.8 mi
Cliffs: 17
  • Crow Point: 7.4 mi
  • Flag Rock: 8.0 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 10.5 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 10.5 mi
  • Garden Wall: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 7
Rest areas: 4
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 16.5 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 16.5 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.4 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 23.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Windham Spring: 21.4 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 22.0 mi
  • Big Spring: 22.8 mi
  • Hermit spring: 23.5 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 15.7 mi
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 22.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Veteran's Memorial Park (Spring Pond). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Paulk HillENE 67°294 m11.9 mi
Grant HillE 89°284 m10.9 mi
Talcott MountainW 269°276 m10.3 mi
Reed HillENE 78°275 m10.4 mi
MannantuckSE 138°273 m9.8 mi
John Tom HillSE 138°272 m9.8 mi
Box HillE 96°252 m7.5 mi
Ely MoundW 262°246 m10.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4720:30
September equinox06:3818:1318:50
December solstice07:1515:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage14 obs
  • Red-banded Hairstreak11 obs
  • Pandorus Sphinx10 obs
  • sensitive fern10 obs
  • Wood Duck9 obs
  • Painted Turtle9 obs
  • wild carrot9 obs
  • Song Sparrow8 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/43440387

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