Ayer Hill
Ayer Hill rises to 144 m in Connecticut. Prentice Mountain stands 163 m to the northeast, 1.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Lake of Isles Boat Launch, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 6.2 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807548, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 144 m
How to reach it
- 6.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.0 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 14.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 15.7 mi off the Shannock Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center: 1.2 mi
- Old Mystic History Center: 6.4 mi
- Nathan Lester House: 6.4 mi
- Perkins-Rockwell House: 7.2 mi
- Tantaquidgeon Museum: 7.4 mi
- Avery Pond Water Access: 1.5 mi
- Amos Lake Water Access: 2.5 mi
- Sawmill Park: 2.9 mi
- Downer-Doanes Park: 3.3 mi
- Preston Highway Park: 3.3 mi
- Lake of Isles Boat Launch: 0.7 mi
- Preston Plains Water Co.: 1.4 mi
- Jessica Lane Open Space: 1.6 mi
- Lantern Hill Pond Boat Launch: 1.7 mi
- Eleanor and Flood Reed Memorial Woodlands: 1.7 mi
- Prentice Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Lantern Hill: 1.7 mi
- Swantown Hill: 1.9 mi
- Barns Hill: 2.2 mi
- Wintechog Hill: 2.3 mi
- Cellar Hole: 1.9 mi
- Youngs Ledyard Morgan: 3.6 mi
- Miantonomo: 6.7 mi
- Mill Brook Bridge: 6.7 mi
- Rotary Club Memorial to Peace: 6.8 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 8.4 mi
- Williams Beach: 9.5 mi
- Groton Beach: 10.9 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 11.0 mi
- DuBois Beach: 11.0 mi
- Stone Turtle: 4.1 mi
- Promised Day: 6.7 mi
- Nevertheless: 6.8 mi
- River Blue: 6.8 mi
- Muffler Man: 7.5 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 6.3 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 6.4 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 9.1 mi
- The Dark Manor Haunted House: 9.2 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 9.9 mi
- Memorial Rose Gardens: 7.0 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 10.4 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 10.4 mi
- Sprout Garden: 10.5 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 10.5 mi
- Yantic Falls: 7.7 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 13.6 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 14.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 14.4 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 14.5 mi
- Skate Hut: 12.2 mi
- Powder House: 12.5 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 17.0 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 17.2 mi
- Big Beach: 23.4 mi
- Old Spring: 4.6 mi
- Factory Pond: 19.6 mi
- Windham Spring: 21.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 7.7 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 8.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 15.8 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 13.4 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 13.4 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 16.0 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 21.4 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Ayer Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prentice Mountain | NE 47° | 163 m | 1.4 mi |
| Barns Hill | ENE 69° | 155 m | 2.2 mi |
| Pendleton Hill | ENE 77° | 153 m | 6.0 mi |
| Bay Mountain | NNE 29° | 152 m | 4.6 mi |
| Stewart Hill | E 95° | 149 m | 3.9 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | SE 132° | 139 m | 2.3 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | ESE 106° | 139 m | 3.0 mi |
| Crandall Hill | WSW 257° | 137 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norwich Public Utility PLT, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205175 — Ayer Hill, Southeastern Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359259686
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