Candlewood Hill
Candlewood Hill rises to 110 m in Connecticut. Trimountain stands 232 m to the west, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Alyce and Robert Schulte Preserve, a nature reserve 1.3 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 27 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807738, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 110 m
How to reach it
- 27.3 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Alyce and Robert Schulte Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Nedobity Preserve: 1.8 mi
- Morris Hubbard Road Open Space: 2.3 mi
- Swan Hill Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Burr Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Higganum Reservoir Boat Launch: 1.9 mi
- Rock Park: 2.2 mi
- Brickyard Ballfield: 2.8 mi
- Crystal Lake Park: 3.3 mi
- Crystal Lake Boat Launch (Middletown): 3.4 mi
- Haddam Shad Museum: 2.2 mi
- Haddam Veterans' Museum: 2.3 mi
- Thankful Arnold House: 4.1 mi
- Durham Historical Society: 4.4 mi
- Wadsworth Mansion: 5.7 mi
- Gingers Garden: 6.4 mi
- Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 6.7 mi
- Erin Street Community Garden: 6.8 mi
- Memorial Garden: 8.2 mi
- Rain Garden: 9.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Durham Volunteer Firefighters Memorial: 4.3 mi
- Durham War Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Collier's Hut Remains: 5.3 mi
- Colonel Clarence S. Wadsworth: 5.8 mi
- Bible Rock: 1.6 mi
- Chestnut Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Big Hill: 2.5 mi
- Goose Hill: 2.9 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.9 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 6.0 mi
- snake: 6.4 mi
- First Tear: 6.8 mi
- Totem Pole: 9.4 mi
- Face in Tree: 10.1 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 7.6 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 12.9 mi
- East Rive Beach: 14.7 mi
- Circle Beach: 14.9 mi
- Jacobs Public Beach: 15.0 mi
- Bible Rock: 2.1 mi
- George Washington rock: 2.3 mi
- Middletown-Durham boundary stone: 2.8 mi
- grindstone: 3.4 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 5.2 mi
- Seven Falls: 2.1 mi
- Intermittent Waterfall: 3.0 mi
- Pine Brook Falls: 5.6 mi
- Shipyard Falls: 5.6 mi
- Wadsworth Little Falls: 5.9 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 6.9 mi
- Bluff Head: 7.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 9.4 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 13.9 mi
- Crow Point: 15.9 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.2 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 9.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 15.6 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 17.2 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 24.8 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 6.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 18.9 mi
- Cold Spring: 19.3 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 19.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Candlewood Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trimountain | W 260° | 232 m | 7.3 mi |
| Fowler Mountain | WSW 252° | 230 m | 7.9 mi |
| Beseck Mountain | WNW 287° | 219 m | 8.1 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | WSW 246° | 210 m | 7.9 mi |
| Goose Hill | SSE 147° | 201 m | 2.9 mi |
| Bear Hill | N 5° | 199 m | 3.0 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | WSW 241° | 196 m | 4.5 mi |
| Chestnut Mountain | NNW 329° | 186 m | 2.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:13 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:40 | 16:24 |
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 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 206005 — Candlewood Hill, Lower Connecticut River Valley County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359261118
Day trips start here
- Essex · 14 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 15 mi
- Old Saybrook · 17 mi
- Old Lyme · 19 mi
- East Lyme · 21 mi
- Montville · 23 mi
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