West Eggleston Street Tot Lot
West Eggleston Street Tot Lot is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 40 m. West Ledge stands 305 m to the west-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Cow Mermaid Statue, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 27 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 40 m
How to reach it
- 26.7 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 29.9 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Cow Mermaid Statue: 0.2 mi
- Cow: 1.0 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 2.8 mi
- Painted Cow: 2.9 mi
- Sedna: 3.2 mi
- Blue Hills Neighborhood Center: 0.3 mi
- Hubbard Street Tot Lot: 0.9 mi
- Wintonbury Hills Playground: 1.0 mi
- Pershing Park Playground: 1.0 mi
- Coventry Green: 1.2 mi
- 1964 Flood Prevention Project: 1.1 mi
- VW: 1.3 mi
- Farm Tool: 1.4 mi
- Hartford Circus Fire Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Jessie's Community Gardens: 3.9 mi
- Gully Green: 1.1 mi
- University of Hartford Open Space: 1.1 mi
- Lincoln Way West Open Space: 1.2 mi
- Tobacco Valley Open Space Area: 1.2 mi
- Matianuck Natural Area Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Museum of American Political Life: 1.7 mi
- A. Everett Austin House: 2.8 mi
- Connecticut Museum of Culture and History: 3.3 mi
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House: 3.8 mi
- Mark Twain House Museum: 3.8 mi
- Cook Hill: 2.7 mi
- Grant Hill: 2.9 mi
- Johnson Hill: 3.8 mi
- Day Hill: 3.9 mi
- Little Phillip Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Robert A. Prill Annual Garden: 3.4 mi
- Elizabeth Park Rose Garden: 3.4 mi
- Elizabeth Park Perennial Garden: 3.4 mi
- Huntington Community Garden: 3.5 mi
- Perennial Garden: 3.9 mi
- Keney Tower: 3.6 mi
- Mark Twain House: 3.7 mi
- Geographic Center of Hartford: 3.8 mi
- Steven Sauter Rock: 4.8 mi
- Heublein Tower: 4.9 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 8.9 mi
- Cathles Trail Falls: 9.7 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 9.8 mi
- Northgate Falls: 10.2 mi
- Westledge Trail Cascades: 10.3 mi
- Hart Meadow: 5.6 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 5.6 mi
- Garden Wall: 5.7 mi
- Superstructure: 6.2 mi
- Solar Panel: 6.3 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 13.2 mi
- Babbs Beach: 14.6 mi
- Sandy Beach: 18.7 mi
- Holland Beach: 20.9 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 21.0 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 16.8 mi
- Big Spring: 17.9 mi
- Hermit spring: 18.2 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 20.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 18.6 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 21.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 21.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 15.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 21.8 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 22.9 mi
- Gay City State Park: 15.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of West Eggleston Street Tot Lot. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Ledge | WNW 301° | 305 m | 10.2 mi |
| Talcott Mountain | W 262° | 276 m | 4.9 mi |
| East Hill | WNW 282° | 261 m | 10.1 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | W 278° | 257 m | 11.0 mi |
| Onion Mountain | WNW 287° | 253 m | 9.4 mi |
| Ely Mound | WSW 248° | 246 m | 5.5 mi |
| Mount Horr | W 274° | 238 m | 9.9 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | SW 218° | 229 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 7 mi away.
- Big Sand Tiger Beetle43 obs
- Festive Tiger Beetle18 obs
- clasping milkweed15 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee15 obs
- striped wintergreen11 obs
- Monarch10 obs
- blue clubmoss10 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel9 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/43440669
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 10 mi
- Longmeadow · 17 mi
- Somers · 17 mi
- Tolland · 18 mi
- Hampden · 22 mi
- Storrs · 23 mi
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