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Gay-Holt House Museum

Gay-Holt House Museum from directly overhead

Gay-Holt House Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 212 m. Mount Riga stands 534 m to the north, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Cemetery Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 212 m

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.87702, -73.47642

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks

Cemetery Hill: 0.4 mi
King Hill: 0.8 mi
Tan Fat Hill: 1.9 mi
Deming Hill: 2.7 mi
Mine Mountain: 3.3 mi

Parks

Veterans Field: 1.2 mi
Mudge Pond Town Beach: 2.3 mi
Bucksbaum Preserve: 3.1 mi
Housatonic Meadows State Park: 5.5 mi
Bauer Park: 6.2 mi

Nature reserves

Benton Hill Preserve: 1.3 mi
Moore Preserve: 1.8 mi
The Nature Conservancy Benton Hill Fen (Owned): 1.9 mi
The Nature Conservancy Benton Hill Fen (Owned): 1.9 mi
Beardsley Pond: 2.0 mi

Waterfalls30

Hatch Brook Falls: 5.4 mi
Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 5.5 mi
Dean's Ravine Falls: 7.4 mi
Cascade: 7.5 mi
Kent Falls: 7.9 mi

Museums28

Holley Williams House Museum: 6.4 mi
FV - Canaan Historical Society: 7.8 mi
Cornwall Historical Society: 7.9 mi
Sloane-Stanley Museum: 9.5 mi
Connecticut Railroad Historical Museum: 12.8 mi

Historic sites24

Lime Kiln: 1.3 mi
Folly: 2.1 mi
Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 10.1 mi
War Memorial: 11.7 mi
Tri-State Marker: 11.9 mi

Attractions21

Town Hill Farm: 4.7 mi
Giant's Thumb: 8.0 mi
wings castle: 10.7 mi
Dover Stone Church: 11.2 mi
Beckley Furnace: 13.2 mi

Cliffs16

Grand Staircase: 10.4 mi
Pine Ledge: 11.0 mi
Hornet's Nest: 19.2 mi
Kelly Slide: 20.4 mi
Winsted Cliffs: 21.1 mi

Beaches16

Sandy Beach: 18.1 mi
Morris Town Beach: 18.5 mi
East Beach: 18.8 mi
West Beach: 19.3 mi
Holland Beach: 20.3 mi

Gardens15

Judea Garden: 15.3 mi
Innisfree Garden: 16.3 mi
Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 18.9 mi
Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 22.1 mi
Community Garden: 23.5 mi

Artworks12

Diving Lady: 21.2 mi
Newsboy Statue: 21.8 mi
Liebowitz Letter: 23.4 mi
Naked Lady: 23.6 mi
Jean Widmark: 23.8 mi

Springs3

Cannavo Spring: 20.7 mi
Hermit spring: 21.9 mi
Ever Flowing Spring: 24.7 mi

Ghost towns2

Dudley Town: 8.0 mi
Questing: 20.5 mi

Picnic sites2

Guilder Pond Picnic area: 16.0 mi
Picnic Area: 20.9 mi

Covered bridges1

Bulls Bridge Road: 14.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Gay-Holt House Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Riga	N 3°	534 m	8.1 mi
Thorpe Mountain	N 356°	518 m	7.9 mi
Bird Peak	N 357°	477 m	7.1 mi
Ellsworth Hill	SSE 167°	473 m	5.3 mi
Dudleytown Hill	SE 131°	461 m	8.1 mi
Whitcomb Hill	SE 139°	459 m	8.0 mi
Cream Hill	ENE 79°	452 m	8.1 mi
Sharon Mountain	ESE 108°	445 m	3.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:58	18:29	19:06
June solstice	05:20	19:51	20:33
September equinox	06:42	18:16	18:53
December solstice	07:19	15:42	16:27

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	25	27	35	47	58	66	71	69	62	51	40	30
Precip in	3.0	2.6	3.4	3.3	3.9	4.8	4.8	4.4	4.7	4.7	3.5	3.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Falls Village, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/978194549

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