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Welchs Point Park

Welchs Point Park from directly overhead

Welchs Point Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Bayview Beach, a beach 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 3.9 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
5 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.20871, -73.03538

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
Peaks
  • Knobb Hill: 0.2 mi
  • Bryan Hill: 0.7 mi
  • Merwin Hill: 1.1 mi
  • Clark Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Burwell Hill: 1.5 mi
Parks
Historic sites
Museums
  • Eells-Stow House: 1.3 mi
  • Model Railroad Museum: 4.3 mi
  • Americana Museum: 4.3 mi
  • Boothe Memorial Museum: 4.4 mi
  • National Helicopter Museum Inc: 5.0 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens: 52
  • Eisenhower Community Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Yale Landscape Lab: 3.7 mi
  • Rose/Wedding garden: 4.3 mi
  • Truman Street Community Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Washington Ave Community Garden: 7.8 mi
Waterfalls: 33
  • Farmill River Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Cascade: 6.5 mi
  • Cascades: 6.6 mi
  • Cascade: 7.4 mi
  • Indian Well Falls: 10.1 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Miniature Lighthouse: 4.3 mi
  • Miniature Windmill: 4.4 mi
  • Mother Mary: 7.7 mi
  • Heron: 8.2 mi
  • An American Dream: 8.4 mi
Attractions: 17
  • PEZ Visitor Center: 4.3 mi
  • Nelli Green's Bridge: 10.1 mi
  • Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 11.4 mi
  • Burr Homestead: 12.1 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 13.2 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 0.5 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 7.6 mi
  • Pond View: 12.8 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 12.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 13.0 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 5.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 5.0 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 21.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 23.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 23.9 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Cliffs: 5
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Welchs Point Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Great HillNNW 338°202 m11.5 mi
Barn HillNW 320°200 m12.2 mi
Moose HillNW 314°198 m12.3 mi
Israel HillNW 318°192 m11.2 mi
Round HillN 8°190 m12.4 mi
Bugg HillNW 310°189 m12.4 mi
Upper White HillsNNW 327°188 m11.6 mi
Peck HillN 1°183 m11.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:2019:4720:29
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1515:4316:27

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313340506070767568564637
Precip in3.23.14.14.23.63.83.34.04.03.83.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Herring Gull80 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull71 obs
  • Clapper Rail70 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab68 obs
  • Asian Shore Crab57 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly51 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird44 obs
  • Red Beard Sponge43 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 node/359283446

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