Bird Hill
Bird Hill rises to 260 m in Connecticut. Mount Tom stands 393 m to the north-northwest, 6.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Langlois Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807639, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 260 m
How to reach it
- 26.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Langlois Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Sherlock Homestead: 0.6 mi
- Tousi Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Church Hill Woods: 1.1 mi
- Green Hill Meadow: 1.2 mi
- Town Green: 1.7 mi
- Three Rivers Park: 4.2 mi
- Woodbury North Green: 4.5 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.7 mi
- Al Deland Field: 4.8 mi
- Old Bethlem Historical Museum: 1.7 mi
- Watertown History Museum: 4.6 mi
- James Morris Museum and Aline Brothier Morris Reading Room: 4.8 mi
- Glebe House Museum: 5.3 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 5.6 mi
- Church Hill: 1.2 mi
- Brushy Hill: 1.5 mi
- Magnolia Hill: 1.7 mi
- Davidson Hill: 2.4 mi
- Hogpen Hill: 2.6 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Soldiers’ Monument: 5.3 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 5.6 mi
- In Memory of George Washington: 6.0 mi
- U.S.D.A plaque: 6.2 mi
- Bethlehem Green Historic District: 1.7 mi
- Bellamy-Ferriday Garden: 1.8 mi
- Indian village: 6.1 mi
- Rock House: 6.3 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 7.7 mi
- Nonnewaug Falls: 2.1 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 3.0 mi
- Knife Shop Falls: 7.8 mi
- New Preston Falls: 8.8 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 10.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 5.3 mi
- Judea Garden: 8.1 mi
- Melanie Rieger Victims of Violent Crimes Memorial Garden: 8.2 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 8.2 mi
- Poet's Circle: 8.2 mi
- Bethel Rock: 5.1 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 6.3 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 7.8 mi
- Lovers Leap: 11.5 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 11.7 mi
- Jean Widmark: 4.5 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 9.3 mi
- Ben Franklin: 9.3 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 9.4 mi
- Maori Head: 9.9 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 5.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 6.3 mi
- Waterfront: 8.6 mi
- Boating Side: 8.6 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 13.5 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 15.8 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 22.5 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 24.3 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 24.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 24.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 8.5 mi
- Pond View: 20.7 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 20.8 mi
- Oak Grove: 20.9 mi
- Cedar Grove: 21.2 mi
- Hermit spring: 19.5 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 21.8 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 23.8 mi
- Dudley Town: 15.3 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 16.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Bird Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tom | NNW 327° | 393 m | 6.5 mi |
| Mount Rat | NW 315° | 352 m | 7.2 mi |
| Guernsey Hill | NNE 29° | 346 m | 7.6 mi |
| Todd Hill | NNW 334° | 344 m | 3.2 mi |
| Poor House Hill | N 360° | 336 m | 5.4 mi |
| Apple Hill | N 354° | 334 m | 5.4 mi |
| Little Mount Tom | NNW 330° | 331 m | 5.7 mi |
| Looking Glass Hill | NNW 337° | 331 m | 7.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:42 | 16:26 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 19 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359260311
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