Jesse F. Smith Town Forest
Jesse F. Smith Town Forest is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 53 m. Winchell Mountain stands 403 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Buck Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 16 miles off.
Municipal, Open To Public Without Fee
What the record says
- Elevation
- 53 m
How to reach it
- 15.6 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 18.6 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Buck Hill: 0.7 mi
- Hastings Hill: 0.9 mi
- Philo Hill: 1.0 mi
- Glovers Hill: 1.1 mi
- King Hill: 1.2 mi
- Town Of Suffield (Hill Street & Russell Av.): 0.9 mi
- Still Brook Park: 2.8 mi
- Bazin N. Bruce Memorial Park: 2.9 mi
- Sacred Heart Field: 3.4 mi
- Borgatti Park: 3.5 mi
- E. Alexander Bergstrom: 1.3 mi
- Kotchen Quadrangle: 2.2 mi
- Suffield Academy Bell: 2.3 mi
- Veterans' Memorial: 2.6 mi
- World War I Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Azalea Garden: 2.1 mi
- Side Garden: 2.1 mi
- Front Garden: 2.1 mi
- Front Garden: 2.1 mi
- Back Garden: 2.2 mi
- King House Museum: 3.0 mi
- Enfield Historical Society: 4.5 mi
- Longmeadow Historical Society: 4.7 mi
- New England Air Museum: 5.1 mi
- Storrowton Village Museum: 5.4 mi
- Freedom Eagle: 4.6 mi
- The Three Graces: 5.7 mi
- 1856 City Hall Bell: 6.8 mi
- Miles Morgan: 6.8 mi
- Birdicus Gigantium: 6.8 mi
- New England Sky Screamer: 2.8 mi
- A-3B "Skywarrior": 5.1 mi
- HU-16E "Albatross": 5.1 mi
- C-7A "Caribou": 5.1 mi
- Springfield Museums: 7.1 mi
- Lost Acres Falls: 10.9 mi
- Carpenter's Falls: 11.1 mi
- Enders Falls: 11.9 mi
- Beach Brook Falls: 11.9 mi
- Enders Falls: 11.9 mi
- Indian Leap: 13.2 mi
- Hart Meadow: 17.8 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 17.8 mi
- Garden Wall: 17.9 mi
- Superstructure: 18.8 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 3.1 mi
- Babbs Beach: 4.8 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 14.2 mi
- Sandy Beach: 16.0 mi
- Rainbow Beach: 19.9 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 12.1 mi
- Rd: 12.2 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 12.2 mi
- Big Spring: 18.1 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 18.7 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 2.9 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 9.3 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 20.6 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 20.6 mi
- Gay City State Park: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Jesse F. Smith Town Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winchell Mountain | WNW 282° | 403 m | 12.7 mi |
| South Mountain | W 280° | 357 m | 11.0 mi |
| Drake Mountain | WNW 303° | 350 m | 10.9 mi |
| Bad Luck Mountain | WNW 292° | 347 m | 11.4 mi |
| East Sweetman Mountain | WNW 298° | 339 m | 12.1 mi |
| Sodom Mountain | WNW 288° | 326 m | 9.4 mi |
| Pine Cone | WSW 246° | 323 m | 11.8 mi |
| Russell Mountain | NW 316° | 321 m | 12.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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 | 27 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, 6 mi away.
- American Robin4 obs
- multiflora rose4 obs
- sensitive fern4 obs
- Red-bellied Woodpecker3 obs
- Common Snapping Turtle3 obs
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit3 obs
- turkey-tail3 obs
- bittersweet nightshade3 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/43436235
Day trips start here
- Longmeadow · 5 mi
- East Windsor · 9 mi
- Somers · 11 mi
- Hampden · 13 mi
- Holyoke · 13 mi
- Ludlow · 14 mi
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