Cooks Hill
Cooks Hill rises to 174 m in Connecticut. Post Hill stands 239 m to the west, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Beaumont Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 13 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807843, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 174 m
How to reach it
- 12.9 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 18.0 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 7.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Beaumont Park: 0.9 mi
- South Ridge Park: 2.1 mi
- Guild Field: 2.8 mi
- Columbia Volunteer Fire Department Field: 2.8 mi
- Young's Park: 2.8 mi
- Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum: 2.7 mi
- Johnathan Trumbull Jr. House: 3.2 mi
- Jillison House Museum: 3.2 mi
- Windham Textile and History Museum: 3.4 mi
- William Beaumont House: 3.5 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 1.2 mi
- Sweet Hill: 1.4 mi
- Commons Hill: 1.5 mi
- Gates Hill: 2.1 mi
- Owunnegunset Hill: 2.1 mi
- Schalk Road Open Space: 1.6 mi
- Whitney Forest: 2.2 mi
- Potter Meadow: 2.5 mi
- Burdick Park: 2.7 mi
- Tyler Field: 2.9 mi
- Swifty: 3.1 mi
- Windy: 3.1 mi
- Willy: 3.2 mi
- Manny: 3.2 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 8.7 mi
- Dr. William Beaumont: 2.8 mi
- Wilcox Mill: 5.1 mi
- Wilcox Mill (Site of): 5.1 mi
- dog memorial: 6.6 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 6.7 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 2.1 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 5.8 mi
- Wolf Rock: 6.0 mi
- Eagle Rock: 8.2 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 10.0 mi
- fern and rock garden: 2.7 mi
- Mary's Garden: 3.3 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 4.2 mi
- Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 7.0 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 7.2 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 6.6 mi
- Grayville Falls: 7.4 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 7.5 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 9.4 mi
- Codfish Falls: 10.1 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 12.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 18.5 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 20.3 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 21.9 mi
- Kiddie's Beach: 22.9 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 5.9 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 8.0 mi
- Coney Rock: 8.6 mi
- Flag Rock: 12.6 mi
- Crow Point: 18.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 10.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 17.0 mi
- Bara-Hack: 18.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 14.9 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 15.0 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 15.9 mi
- Windham Spring: 4.3 mi
- Old Spring: 22.6 mi
- Skate Hut: 23.5 mi
- Powder House: 23.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Cooks Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Post Hill | W 263° | 239 m | 4.4 mi |
| Clark Hill | NE 50° | 235 m | 10.3 mi |
| Bear Hill | NE 47° | 232 m | 10.9 mi |
| Burnt Hill | W 277° | 229 m | 6.7 mi |
| Riley Mountain | NNW 336° | 223 m | 9.3 mi |
| New Boston Hill | WNW 289° | 217 m | 8.3 mi |
| Horsebarn Hill | N 2° | 214 m | 9.6 mi |
| Wormwood Hill | NNE 18° | 212 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 37 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Willimantic Windham AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 206436 — Cooks Hill, Southeastern Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359262077
Day trips start here
- Willimantic · 3 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 7 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 8 mi
- Storrs · 9 mi
- Norwich · 12 mi
- Tolland · 15 mi
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