Bird Peak
Bird Peak rises to 477 m in Connecticut. Mount Frissell stands 747 m to the north, 5.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Centennial Watershed State Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 25 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807640, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 477 m
How to reach it
- 25.3 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Thorpe Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Mount Riga: 1.3 mi
- Brook Hill: 1.7 mi
- Reed Hill: 2.0 mi
- Bald Peak: 2.5 mi
- Bauer Park: 2.3 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 2.4 mi
- Cannon Park And Ballfield: 2.5 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Trotta Field: 3.3 mi
- Centennial Watershed State Forest: 0.3 mi
- Yoakum Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Oak Hill Park: 1.6 mi
- Town Grove: 2.3 mi
- Town Open Space: 2.8 mi
- Holley Williams House Museum: 2.3 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 6.3 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 7.1 mi
- Connecticut Railroad Historical Museum: 8.5 mi
- C H Pease Museum: 8.5 mi
- Tri-State Marker: 4.9 mi
- Folly: 5.2 mi
- Lime Kiln: 6.3 mi
- Dough Boy: 8.6 mi
- Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 8.8 mi
- Riga Falls: 2.4 mi
- Sages Ravine Falls: 5.4 mi
- Sages Ravine Brook Falls: 5.7 mi
- Great Falls: 5.8 mi
- Bear Rock Falls: 6.2 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 15.2 mi
- Diving Lady: 15.6 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 16.6 mi
- Naked Lady: 16.9 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 21.8 mi
- Grand Staircase: 17.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 18.0 mi
- Devil’s Pulpit: 19.9 mi
- Winsted Cliffs: 21.8 mi
- The Beech: 22.2 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 20.0 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 20.4 mi
- Heritage Garden: 20.9 mi
- Judea Garden: 21.9 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 22.1 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 3.9 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 4.5 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 10.1 mi
- Sheffield Covered Bridge: 12.0 mi
- wings castle: 13.9 mi
- East Beach: 13.7 mi
- West Beach: 14.3 mi
- Holland Beach: 20.8 mi
- South Landing: 23.2 mi
- West Landing: 23.3 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 21.3 mi
- Hermit spring: 23.5 mi
- Big Spring: 24.8 mi
- Dudley Town: 13.6 mi
- Questing: 15.5 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 9.2 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 21.0 mi
- Saugerties Lighthouse: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Bird Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Frissell | N 1° | 747 m | 5.0 mi |
| Mount Ashley | N 4° | 725 m | 5.7 mi |
| Mount Race | NNE 20° | 723 m | 7.6 mi |
| Bear Mountain | NNE 18° | 708 m | 4.8 mi |
| Brace Mountain | N 354° | 706 m | 4.5 mi |
| South Brace Mountain | N 355° | 702 m | 4.2 mi |
| Round Mountain | N 4° | 695 m | 4.8 mi |
| Alander Mountain | N 352° | 680 m | 7.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:51 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:41 | 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 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205523 — Bird Peak, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359260315
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 16 mi
- Monterey · 20 mi
- Berkshires · 21 mi
- Stockbridge · 23 mi
- Lee · 25 mi
- Otis · 25 mi
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