Birch Mountain
Birch Mountain rises to 233 m in Connecticut. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Lookout Mountain, a peak 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807638, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 233 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Coop Road I Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Yules Family Park: 0.7 mi
- Gorman Natural Area: 0.8 mi
- Case Parklet: 0.9 mi
- Coop Road II Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Neipsic Tennis Club: 1.8 mi
- Mount Nebo Park: 1.8 mi
- Spruce Street Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Munro Park: 2.4 mi
- Lake Street Parklet: 2.6 mi
- Lutz Children's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 2.4 mi
- The Fire Museum: 2.7 mi
- Old Manchester Museum: 2.9 mi
- Vernon Historical Society Museum: 6.3 mi
- Sorry Rock: 3.2 mi
- Frog: 4.0 mi
- Equality: 9.1 mi
- The Circuit Rider: 9.4 mi
- A Welcome Conversation: 9.4 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 0.4 mi
- Case Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Mount Nebo: 1.9 mi
- Whites Hill: 2.1 mi
- Green Hill: 2.2 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 1.8 mi
- Hay Tedder: 4.0 mi
- Car Wreck: 4.7 mi
- Insect Hotel: 5.7 mi
- filled-in well: 6.1 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 3.7 mi
- dog memorial: 7.6 mi
- Slocomb Mill: 7.8 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 9.2 mi
- Warner Memorial: 9.4 mi
- Wickham Park English Garden: 5.3 mi
- Wickham Park Irish Garden: 5.3 mi
- Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 5.5 mi
- Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 5.6 mi
- Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 6.7 mi
- Case Falls: 0.9 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 1.0 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 2.8 mi
- Blackledge Falls: 3.6 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 5.1 mi
- Flag Rock: 3.3 mi
- Crow Point: 7.6 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 13.9 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 14.1 mi
- Coney Rock: 14.9 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 12.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 13.8 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 18.3 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 20.6 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 20.8 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 13.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 13.8 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 19.1 mi
- Gay City State Park: 2.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 17.9 mi
- Windham Spring: 14.5 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Birch Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NNE 29° | 294 m | 10.3 mi |
| Grant Hill | NE 46° | 284 m | 6.8 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NNE 30° | 282 m | 11.5 mi |
| Reed Hill | NNE 32° | 275 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mannantuck | S 170° | 273 m | 2.9 mi |
| John Tom Hill | S 170° | 272 m | 2.8 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | SSW 201° | 265 m | 8.8 mi |
| Box Hill | NNE 21° | 252 m | 3.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359260308
Day trips start here
- Tolland · 10 mi
- East Windsor · 12 mi
- Storrs · 13 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 14 mi
- Willimantic · 14 mi
- Somers · 16 mi
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