Buff Cap Hill
Buff Cap Hill rises to 248 m in Connecticut. Burley Hill stands 396 m to the northeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Florence Drive Open Space, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 18 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807702, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 248 m
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 26.8 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 18.3 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- River Road Park: 2.1 mi
- Haymarket Square: 2.8 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
- West Main Street Open Space: 3.1 mi
- Olympic Circle: 3.2 mi
- Stafford Historical Society: 2.8 mi
- Patten District One Room Schoolhouse: 3.5 mi
- Old Tolland County Jail and Museum: 3.8 mi
- Hicks-Stearns Family Museum: 3.8 mi
- Glazier Tavern: 4.1 mi
- The Walking Wall: 8.2 mi
- Slip Edge Bis: 8.2 mi
- Catch I, II, III: 8.3 mi
- The Arc: 8.3 mi
- Harvest Joy: 8.3 mi
- Florence Drive Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Plains Road Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Camp Yankee Trails: 1.0 mi
- Derek Drive Open Space: 1.3 mi
- Crystal Peat Conservation Area: 1.5 mi
- Neff Hill: 1.2 mi
- Kendall Hill: 2.0 mi
- Tolland Hill: 2.0 mi
- Village Hill: 2.5 mi
- Murry Hill: 2.6 mi
- Scripture Bridge Abutments: 1.9 mi
- Construction Workers Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Willington Veteran's Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Old root cellar: 9.1 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 9.3 mi
- Tolland Youth Garden: 4.1 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 8.1 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 8.1 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 8.1 mi
- filled-in well: 8.5 mi
- Bigelow Brook Farm: 10.0 mi
- Goat Rock: 11.5 mi
- Wolf Rock: 12.3 mi
- Path Continues: 13.1 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 7.0 mi
- Codfish Falls: 8.1 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 10.5 mi
- Case Falls: 13.6 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 13.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 2.7 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 4.3 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 6.5 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 15.5 mi
- Streeter Beach: 16.7 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 10.4 mi
- Coney Rock: 10.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 10.7 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 12.2 mi
- Indian Leap: 18.8 mi
- Picnic: 14.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 17.1 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 20.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 2.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 2.1 mi
- Gay City State Park: 14.4 mi
- Bara-Hack: 16.3 mi
- Windham Spring: 14.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.4 miles of Buff Cap Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burley Hill | NE 40° | 396 m | 9.2 mi |
| Bald Hill | ENE 58° | 371 m | 7.7 mi |
| Stickney Hill | NE 54° | 371 m | 9.0 mi |
| Snow Hill | ENE 66° | 362 m | 6.5 mi |
| Lead Mine Hill | ENE 66° | 361 m | 7.9 mi |
| Hedgehog Hill | NE 48° | 354 m | 6.3 mi |
| Tupper Hill | NNE 19° | 352 m | 8.5 mi |
| Bear Hill | NNE 20° | 347 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 33 | 45 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 68 | 62 | 50 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Staffordville, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205813 — Buff Cap Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359260845
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