Youngs Pond Park
Youngs Pond Park is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 24 m. Fowler Mountain stands 230 m to the north, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Bob's Woods, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 24 m
How to reach it
- 16.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 23.2 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bob's Woods: 0.2 mi
- Goss Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Vedder Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Wies Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Queach Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Hotchkiss Cove Beach: 0.4 mi
- Hotchkiss Grove Beach: 0.7 mi
- Limewood Beach: 1.2 mi
- Montowese Beach: 1.6 mi
- Pebbley Beach: 2.1 mi
- Sunset Hill: 0.5 mi
- Baldwin Hill: 1.8 mi
- Cherry Hill: 2.9 mi
- Moose Hill: 3.1 mi
- Notch Hill: 3.6 mi
- Ecology Park: 0.9 mi
- Foote Riverside Park: 1.4 mi
- Stony Creek-Thimble Island Historic District: 1.4 mi
- Bayview Park: 1.4 mi
- Foote Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
- Stony Creek Museum: 1.3 mi
- Harrison House Museum: 2.5 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 3.9 mi
- Medad Stone Tavern Museum: 4.3 mi
- The Shore Line Trolley Museum: 4.4 mi
- Korean and Vietnam Memorial: 1.4 mi
- A Tribute to the Valor: 1.4 mi
- Stony Creek Honor Roll World War II: 1.4 mi
- Cenotaph: 1.8 mi
- Branford: 1.8 mi
- Lillian's Garden: 5.8 mi
- Grand Acres Community Garden: 6.4 mi
- English Street Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Ferry Street Farm: 6.9 mi
- Pardee Rose Garden: 7.8 mi
- Cascade: 3.5 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 10.4 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 10.9 mi
- Wintergreen Falls: 11.1 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 11.8 mi
- Dinosaur Rock: 3.6 mi
- Nelli Green's Bridge: 3.9 mi
- Bear Cave: 7.8 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 10.7 mi
- PEZ Visitor Center: 11.4 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 7.8 mi
- John B Pierce: 8.3 mi
- An American Dream: 8.4 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 8.9 mi
- Turtle Statue: 8.9 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 14.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 21.4 mi
- Pond View: 24.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 24.0 mi
- Chimney Corner: 3.8 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 10.4 mi
- Bluff Head: 10.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 18.3 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 13.0 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 14.0 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 14.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 18.1 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.6 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 18.8 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 18.8 mi
- Fog Signal House: 18.8 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 22.0 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 22.6 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 21.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 7.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Youngs Pond Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowler Mountain | N 9° | 230 m | 12.0 mi |
| High Rock | NW 319° | 216 m | 12.9 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | N 11° | 210 m | 11.3 mi |
| Mount Carmel | NNW 332° | 206 m | 12.4 mi |
| Totoket Mountain | N 4° | 176 m | 8.7 mi |
| Quonnipaug Mountain | NNE 25° | 167 m | 9.5 mi |
| East Sugarloaf | NNE 19° | 156 m | 7.6 mi |
| West Sugarloaf | NNE 17° | 145 m | 7.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:47 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Haven Tweed AP, 6 mi away.
- Osprey39 obs
- Mud Fiddler Crab33 obs
- eastern redcedar23 obs
- Christmas fern23 obs
- eastern poison ivy19 obs
- common reed18 obs
- Monarch17 obs
- Herb Robert17 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/43398520
Day trips start here
- Essex · 21 mi
- Old Saybrook · 21 mi
- Old Lyme · 25 mi
- East Lyme · 29 mi
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