Cook Hill
Cook Hill rises to 118 m in Connecticut. West Peak stands 301 m to the north, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Gaylord Fields, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 20 miles off.
The story
Mountain in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807841, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 118 m
How to reach it
- 19.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Gaylord Fields: 0.1 mi
- Town Open Space (Schoolhouse Rd.& Algonquin Drive): 0.8 mi
- Lufbery Park: 1.4 mi
- Lakeside Park: 1.5 mi
- Emerson Leonard Wildlife Area: 1.8 mi
- Mount Tom: 1.2 mi
- Jinny Hill: 1.3 mi
- Spice Hill: 1.8 mi
- Mount Carmel: 3.4 mi
- Pond Hill: 4.4 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 2.4 mi
- Jonathan Dickerman House: 4.3 mi
- Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum: 4.4 mi
- Andrews Homestead Museum: 5.0 mi
- Farming Museum: 5.0 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 4.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 5.4 mi
- Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 7.1 mi
- Bethany Community Garden: 8.9 mi
- Winnett Food Forest: 9.6 mi
- Lyman Hall Monument: 2.2 mi
- Wallingford World War II Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Wallingford World War I Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Wallingford Korean War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Maribeth McCarthy Demma: 3.3 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 3.5 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 7.0 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 7.6 mi
- Boating Side: 14.5 mi
- Waterfront: 14.5 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 10.2 mi
- Maori Head: 10.6 mi
- snake: 10.6 mi
- Turtle Statue: 10.7 mi
- End of the Line/West Rock: 11.0 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 6.4 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 9.7 mi
- Bear Cave: 9.9 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 10.7 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 10.9 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 2.9 mi
- Spruce Glen Falls: 3.8 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls: 4.4 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 5.9 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 7.7 mi
- Bluff Head: 9.4 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 9.9 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 14.4 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 14.5 mi
- Green Wall: 15.7 mi
- Picnic Grove: 14.6 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 20.7 mi
- Pond View: 22.4 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 22.5 mi
- Oak Grove: 22.9 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 4.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 7.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 8.1 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 16.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 16.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Cook Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Peak | N 7° | 301 m | 6.2 mi |
| Southington Mountain | NNW 332° | 281 m | 9.9 mi |
| East Peak | N 11° | 277 m | 5.9 mi |
| Higby Mountain | NE 48° | 272 m | 8.1 mi |
| Mount Sanford | W 260° | 263 m | 4.8 mi |
| Turkey Hill | WNW 295° | 263 m | 8.0 mi |
| Prospect Hill | WNW 288° | 260 m | 6.6 mi |
| Hopkins Hill | W 277° | 259 m | 7.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:41 | 16:25 |
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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359284418
Day trips start here
- Essex · 26 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 28 mi
- Old Saybrook · 28 mi
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