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Westmoor Park

Westmoor Park from directly overhead

Westmoor Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 55 m. West Ledge stands 305 m to the northwest, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is 5-Sense Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 29 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1974
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Town of West Hartford
Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.78234, -72.75996
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • 5-Sense Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Jessie's Community Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Primary Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Shade Garden: 0.0 mi
Historic sites
  • Jessie's Community Gardens: 0.0 mi
  • Old Grist Mill Site: 1.0 mi
  • Asa Spaulding Porter: 1.5 mi
  • West Hartford Veterans Memorial: 1.7 mi
  • Newton C. Brainard: 1.7 mi
Nature reserves
Parks
Attractions: 60
Peaks
Museums
Waterfalls
Artworks: 57
Cliffs: 17
  • Garden Wall: 2.0 mi
  • Hart Meadow: 2.0 mi
  • Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 2.0 mi
  • Superstructure: 2.3 mi
  • Solar Panel: 2.3 mi
Beaches: 12
Springs: 4
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 15.8 mi
  • Hermit spring: 16.2 mi
  • Big Spring: 17.2 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 18.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 15.8 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 16.3 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 22.3 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Grove: 17.9 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of Westmoor Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
West LedgeNW 324°305 m9.9 mi
Scranton MountainW 262°300 m10.8 mi
Barnes HillW 273°283 m10.0 mi
Talcott MountainNW 316°276 m2.8 mi
Taine MountainW 261°268 m8.1 mi
Wildcat MountainWSW 256°262 m9.4 mi
East HillNW 304°261 m8.4 mi
Rattlesnake HillWNW 297°257 m9.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1719:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3916:24

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, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Red-tailed Hawk37 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
  • House Sparrow28 obs
  • Painted Turtle28 obs
  • Northern Cardinal27 obs
  • common buckthorn25 obs
  • American Goldfinch25 obs
  • Eastern Cottontail24 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1501173304

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