Wilcox Park
Wilcox Park is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Great Hill stands 202 m to the north-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 2.7 miles off.
How to reach it
- 2.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Simon Lake's Explorer Submarine: 0.1 mi
- World War II: 0.3 mi
- Simon Lake salvage sub wreck: 0.5 mi
- Submersible Wreck: 0.5 mi
- Liberty Rock: 2.4 mi
- Eells-Stow House: 0.2 mi
- Model Railroad Museum: 3.2 mi
- Americana Museum: 3.2 mi
- Boothe Memorial Museum: 3.2 mi
- National Helicopter Museum Inc: 4.4 mi
- Milford Green: 0.2 mi
- Milford Green: 0.3 mi
- Milford Green: 0.4 mi
- Lower Duck Pond: 0.4 mi
- Upper Duck Pond: 0.7 mi
- Delacorte/Hubbard Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Trails: 1.6 mi
- Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Solomon Woods: 2.2 mi
- Hawkins Acres: 3.6 mi
- Gulf Beach: 0.8 mi
- Fort Trumbull Beach: 0.9 mi
- Silver Beach: 1.3 mi
- Bayview Beach: 1.4 mi
- Silver Sands: 1.6 mi
- Knobb Hill: 1.2 mi
- Bryan Hill: 1.3 mi
- Clark Hill: 1.7 mi
- Merwin Hill: 2.0 mi
- Eels Hill: 2.0 mi
- Eisenhower Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 3.1 mi
- Yale Landscape Lab: 3.8 mi
- Eklund Garden: 6.7 mi
- SIS Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 3.7 mi
- Cascades: 5.4 mi
- Cascade: 5.8 mi
- Cascade: 6.2 mi
- Indian Well Falls: 9.0 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 3.2 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 3.2 mi
- Mother Mary: 6.5 mi
- Heron: 7.0 mi
- An American Dream: 8.4 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 4.2 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 10.2 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 10.8 mi
- Burr Homestead: 11.6 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 12.4 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 0.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 6.7 mi
- Pond View: 11.6 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 11.6 mi
- Cedar Grove: 11.8 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 8.6 mi
- Chimney Corner: 17.8 mi
- Bluff Head: 22.7 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 22.9 mi
- Bethel Rock: 23.4 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 4.1 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 4.1 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.8 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 23.2 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 23.3 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 5.4 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 5.4 mi
- Fog Signal House: 5.4 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 7.5 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 19.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.5 mi
- The Silver Spring: 23.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 7.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Wilcox Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hill | NNW 342° | 202 m | 10.4 mi |
| Barn Hill | NW 321° | 200 m | 10.9 mi |
| Moose Hill | NW 314° | 198 m | 11.1 mi |
| Israel Hill | NW 319° | 192 m | 10.0 mi |
| Round Hill | NNE 13° | 190 m | 11.8 mi |
| Bugg Hill | NW 310° | 189 m | 11.2 mi |
| Upper White Hills | NNW 329° | 188 m | 10.4 mi |
| Peck Hill | N 6° | 183 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:48 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 5 mi away.
- American Herring Gull93 obs
- Ring-billed Gull81 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab80 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly76 obs
- Clapper Rail76 obs
- Asian Shore Crab63 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird61 obs
- Mallard55 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/330122783
Day trips start here
- Stamford · 27 mi
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