Bel-Aire Playground

Bel-Aire Playground is a park in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Bel-Aire Playground is situated nearby to the hamlet West Mystic, as well as near the neighborhood Mystic River Historic District.

Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
Type: Park
Description: playground in the US

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mystic Seaport Marine Museum and Haley Farm State Park.

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 Seaport Marine Museum is situated 2 miles east of Bel-Aire Playground.

Haley Farm State Park

Nature reserve

Photo: Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Haley Farm State Park is a public recreation area that preserves Colonial-era farmland as open space in the town of Groton, Connecticut. The site of the state park once formed part of the lands granted to Governor John Winthrop and later became a dairy farm. Haley Farm State Park is situated 1½ miles south of Bel-Aire Playground.

Mystic Museum of Art

Museum

Mystic Museum of Art is a museum of American art at 9 Water Street in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mystic Art Association, an organization of artists who painted in the seacoast town, was founded by Charles Harold Davis in 1913. Mystic Museum of Art is situated 1½ miles east of Bel-Aire Playground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mystic River Historic District and Poquonock Bridge.

Mystic River Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Monsieurdl, Public domain.

The Mystic River Historic District encompasses the part of the village of Mystic, Connecticut that is on the Groton side of the Mystic River. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 1979, approximately 235-acre which includes much of the village of West Mystic and many buildings from the 19th century.

Poquonock Bridge

Village

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Poquonock Bridge is a census-designated place and village in the town of Groton in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,686 at the 2020 census.

Mystic Bridge Historic District

Neighborhood

Photo: Rhvanwinkle, CC BY 3.0.

The Mystic Bridge Historic District is a historic district in the village of Mystic, Connecticut on the Stonington side of the Mystic River. It includes the Mystic Seaport Museum, whose grounds and floating vessels represent the area's history, and the 1924 Mystic River Bascule Bridge. Mystic Bridge Historic District is situated 2 miles east of Bel-Aire Playground.

Bel-Aire Playground

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

41.35433° or 41° 21′ 16″ north

Longitude

-72.00086° or 72° 0′ 3″ west

Elevation

102 feet (31 metres)

Open location code

87H99X3X+PM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 933077406

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

5282176

Wikidata ID

Q31814758

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to German—“Bel-Aire Playground” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Bel-Aire Playground”
German: “Bel-Aire Playground”

Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Lower Mystic Cemetery and Merritt Family Forest.

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