Bread Loaf Mountain
Bread Loaf Mountain rises to 313 m in Connecticut. Mohawk Mountain stands 513 m to the east, 4.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Hatch Brook Falls, a waterfall 0.7 miles away. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807669, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 313 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Housatonic Meadows State Park: 1.3 mi
- Bucksbaum Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Town Green: 5.9 mi
- Dean's Ravine: 6.8 mi
- Veterans Field: 7.0 mi
- South Mine Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Silver Hill: 0.8 mi
- Pine Knob: 1.2 mi
- Mine Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Dean Hill: 1.5 mi
- Sharon Mountain Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Trinity Forest Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Cathedral Pines Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Audrey and Robert Tobin Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Brokaw Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Cornwall Historical Society: 3.1 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 5.9 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 7.4 mi
- Goshen Historical Society: 8.3 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 8.9 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 0.7 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 2.9 mi
- Kent Falls: 3.9 mi
- Marshepaug Falls: 6.7 mi
- Dean's Ravine Falls: 6.8 mi
- Lime Kiln: 7.2 mi
- Folly: 7.8 mi
- Mill Ruins: 10.5 mi
- John Brown Birthplace: 11.1 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 11.9 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 8.0 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 8.6 mi
- Peter's Forge: 9.0 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 10.3 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 12.2 mi
- Grand Staircase: 8.7 mi
- Pine Ledge: 9.2 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 13.6 mi
- Kelly Slide: 17.2 mi
- Winsted Cliffs: 17.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 12.2 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 12.7 mi
- Holland Beach: 16.7 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 18.4 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 18.7 mi
- Judea Garden: 10.3 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 13.1 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 19.4 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 21.8 mi
- Personal Gardens: 24.6 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 17.0 mi
- Hermit spring: 17.5 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.9 mi
- Big Spring: 21.6 mi
- Dudley Town: 2.1 mi
- Questing: 21.5 mi
- Jean Widmark: 18.7 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 24.6 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 19.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 22.1 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 12.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bread Loaf Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohawk Mountain | E 94° | 513 m | 4.5 mi |
| The Pinnacle | E 95° | 502 m | 4.1 mi |
| Red Mountain | ENE 73° | 499 m | 5.0 mi |
| Sedgwick Mountain | ENE 59° | 495 m | 6.5 mi |
| Bartholomew Hill | ENE 74° | 484 m | 5.7 mi |
| Ellsworth Hill | WSW 245° | 473 m | 3.9 mi |
| Woodbury Mountain | SE 136° | 464 m | 2.7 mi |
| Dudleytown Hill | SE 142° | 461 m | 2.3 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 | 19:50 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205703 — Bread Loaf Mountain, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359260592
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