Shady Oaks Park

Shady Oaks Park is a nature reserve in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Shady Oaks Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Burnetts Corner, as well as near the village Old Mystic.

Type: Nature reserve
Description: park in New London County, Connecticut, United States of America
Also known as: “Shady Oak Open Space”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mystic Seaport Marine Museum and Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration.

Mystic Seaport Marine Museum

Theme park

Photo: Joethon, Public domain.

Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored.

Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration

Public aquarium

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Mystic Aquarium is a marine aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. It is one of only three U.S. facilities holding Steller sea lions, and it has the only beluga whales in New England.

Whitehall Mansion

Building

Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Whitehall Mansion is a historic house at 42 Whitehall Avenue in the Stonington side of Mystic, Connecticut. Built about 1771 for a local physician and politician, it is a fine example of late Georgian architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burnetts Corner and Old Mystic.

Burnetts Corner

Neighborhood

Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Burnetts Corner is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut, and the site of Burnett's Corner Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Old Mystic

Village

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Old Mystic is a village and census-designated place located in the towns of Groton and Stonington Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, Old Mystic had a population of 3,493.

Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District is located in the village of Mystic in Stonington, Connecticut. Its main focus is the former Rossie Velvet Mill, a large brick industrial facility on the east side of Greenmanville Avenue that is now a research center for the nearby Mystic Seaport Museum.

Shady Oaks Park

Categories: park and recreation area
Location: Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.39268° or 41° 23′ 34″ north

Longitude

-71.97844° or 71° 58′ 42″ west

Elevation

72 feet (22 metres)

Open location code

87HC92VC+3J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 43440292

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

GeoNames ID

4842857

Wikidata ID

Q31822799

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Cebuano: “Shady Oaks Park”

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