Botsford Hill
Botsford Hill rises to 267 m in Connecticut. Painter Hill stands 324 m to the north-northeast, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Hut Hill, a peak 0.9 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 21 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q31807656, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 267 m
How to reach it
- 21.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hut Hill: 0.9 mi
- Bulkeley Hill: 0.9 mi
- Rocky Hill: 2.0 mi
- Second Hill: 2.1 mi
- Wolf Pit Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Golden Harvest Preserve: 1.2 mi
- River Road Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Erbacher Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Horrigan Family Preserve: 1.5 mi
- McMahan Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Hurlburt Park: 2.0 mi
- Hodge Park: 2.4 mi
- Clatter Valley Park: 2.8 mi
- Lake Lillinonah Boat Launch: 3.4 mi
- Addis Park: 3.7 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 3.7 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 3.9 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Soldiers’ Monument: 7.1 mi
- In Memory of George Washington: 7.2 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 3.8 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 5.0 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 5.6 mi
- Old Town Hall Museum: 6.4 mi
- Glebe House Museum: 6.9 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 8.1 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower Falls: 9.9 mi
- Upper Falls: 9.9 mi
- New Preston Falls: 10.1 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 6.9 mi
- Judea Garden: 10.6 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 11.8 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 11.8 mi
- Personal Gardens: 12.6 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 2.2 mi
- New Milford Tank: 4.8 mi
- Indian village: 5.6 mi
- Bethlehem Green Historic District: 10.3 mi
- Bellamy-Ferriday Garden: 10.3 mi
- North Beach: 6.9 mi
- South Beach: 7.2 mi
- Pine Ledge: 7.5 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 7.9 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 8.2 mi
- Jean Widmark: 4.7 mi
- Lesser Evil: 8.9 mi
- greek letter pi: 9.8 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 11.6 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 15.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 3.3 mi
- Kelly Slide: 6.6 mi
- Bethel Rock: 7.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 7.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 15.0 mi
- Oak Grove: 15.8 mi
- Pond View: 15.8 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 15.8 mi
- Cedar Grove: 16.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 17.1 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 13.4 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 19.7 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 19.7 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 22.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 23.1 mi
- Dudley Town: 19.2 mi
- Dicktown: 22.7 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 13.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 20.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.8 miles of Botsford Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painter Hill | NNE 30° | 324 m | 5.5 mi |
| Lower Church Hill | N 0° | 324 m | 7.0 mi |
| Green Pond Mountain | WNW 285° | 323 m | 6.0 mi |
| Plumb Hill | NNE 22° | 322 m | 7.1 mi |
| Great Mountain | W 277° | 310 m | 5.7 mi |
| Fenn Hill | N 1° | 303 m | 7.4 mi |
| Mount Tom | NNW 333° | 300 m | 7.3 mi |
| Bell Hill | NNE 20° | 299 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359260509
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 22 mi
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