Box Hill
Box Hill rises to 252 m in Connecticut. Soapstone Mountain stands 315 m to the north, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is John S. Risley Memorial Park, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807661, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 252 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 29.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
Named places within 25 miles
- John S. Risley Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
- Rambling Ridge Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Freja Park: 0.9 mi
- Valley Falls Park: 1.1 mi
- Steele Farm Drive Open Space: 1.4 mi
- Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
- Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 1.4 mi
- Indian Notch Park: 1.5 mi
- Meadowbrook Play Area: 1.6 mi
- Lake Street Parklet: 1.8 mi
- Sorry Rock: 1.5 mi
- Frog: 7.0 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 10.3 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 10.3 mi
- The Walking Wall: 10.3 mi
- Whites Hill: 2.1 mi
- Green Hill: 2.3 mi
- Case Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Grant Hill: 3.6 mi
- Lookout Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Vernon Historical Society Museum: 2.6 mi
- New England Civil War Museum: 4.5 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 4.5 mi
- Lutz Children's Museum: 4.7 mi
- The Fire Museum: 4.7 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 4.4 mi
- dog memorial: 7.0 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 8.0 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 10.1 mi
- Major John Mason Statue: 10.1 mi
- filled-in well: 2.2 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 5.4 mi
- Hay Tedder: 7.8 mi
- The Dreamyard: 7.9 mi
- Car Wreck: 8.6 mi
- Tolland Youth Garden: 6.2 mi
- Wickham Park Irish Garden: 6.3 mi
- Wickham Park English Garden: 6.3 mi
- Wickham Park Sensory Garden: 6.5 mi
- Wickham Park Cabin Garden: 6.5 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 2.3 mi
- Case Falls: 3.3 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 3.4 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 3.9 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 4.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 0.9 mi
- Crow Point: 10.7 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 12.4 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Coney Rock: 13.1 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 8.8 mi
- Sandy Beach: 9.9 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 15.6 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 16.7 mi
- Babbs Beach: 21.9 mi
- Gay City State Park: 5.3 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 21.6 mi
- Bara-Hack: 23.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 10.2 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 10.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.7 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 18.4 mi
- Picnic: 24.2 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.3 mi
- Windham Spring: 14.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Box Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soapstone Mountain | N 11° | 315 m | 11.0 mi |
| Paulk Hill | NNE 33° | 294 m | 6.5 mi |
| Whifford Hill | ENE 59° | 291 m | 11.8 mi |
| Kendall Hill | NNE 30° | 290 m | 9.4 mi |
| Grant Hill | ENE 74° | 284 m | 3.6 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NE 34° | 282 m | 7.6 mi |
| Reed Hill | NE 42° | 275 m | 4.0 mi |
| Chestnut Mountain | NNE 16° | 275 m | 12.7 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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359260534
Day trips start here
- Tolland · 7 mi
- East Windsor · 10 mi
- Storrs · 11 mi
- Somers · 13 mi
- Willimantic · 14 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 17 mi
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