Farmington Mountain
Farmington Mountain rises to 153 m in Connecticut. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the west-northwest, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Hill-Stead Museum Grounds, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away.
The story
Farmington Mountain, 502 feet (153 m), is a traprock ridge located 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Hartford, Connecticut, in the town of Farmington. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Farmington Mountain is known for its microclimate ecosystems, rare plant communities, and for the historic Hill-Stead Museum. Farmington Mountain is traversed by the 51-mile (82 km) Metacomet Trail.
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Wikidata Q3066963, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 153 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Hill-Stead Museum Grounds: 0.6 mi
- Town Open Space (Rattlesnake Mountain): 1.3 mi
- Town Open Space (Main Street): 1.4 mi
- Shade Swamp Sanctuary: 2.0 mi
- Town Open Space (Pequabuck Lane): 2.0 mi
- Hill Stead Museum: 0.6 mi
- Stanley-Whitman House Museum: 0.7 mi
- Day-Lewis Museum: 1.1 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum: 3.5 mi
- New Britain Industrial Museum: 3.6 mi
- Rattlesnake Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Osgood Hill: 2.3 mi
- Burnt Hill: 2.4 mi
- Killkenny Rocks: 3.2 mi
- Buena Vista Hill: 3.3 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 1.3 mi
- Hospital Rock: 1.6 mi
- The Carrals: 4.7 mi
- Carousel: 4.7 mi
- Trolley Offices Sign: 4.7 mi
- Corbin Heights Park: 1.7 mi
- Osgood Heights Park: 2.1 mi
- Stanley Quarter Park: 2.4 mi
- Quirk Park: 2.4 mi
- Tunxis Mead Park: 2.5 mi
- plinth: 2.1 mi
- Nature Center Ruins: 2.2 mi
- Stone House Ruins: 2.2 mi
- Borinqueneers Monument: 2.9 mi
- Vincent H. Core Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 4.6 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 5.3 mi
- Whigville Falls: 7.3 mi
- Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 7.6 mi
- Cascades: 7.6 mi
- Sunken Garden: 0.6 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 1.8 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 3.6 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 5.6 mi
- 5-Sense Garden: 5.6 mi
- Home: 3.7 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 5.0 mi
- CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 5.9 mi
- Sedna: 6.6 mi
- Painted Cow: 6.7 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 1.2 mi
- Green Wall: 1.3 mi
- South Wall: 3.7 mi
- Solar Panel: 3.8 mi
- Superstructure: 3.8 mi
- Boating Side: 12.8 mi
- Waterfront: 12.9 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 13.0 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 13.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 14.3 mi
- Hermit spring: 16.3 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 17.3 mi
- Big Spring: 19.2 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 19.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 10.7 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 11.6 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 17.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 13.0 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 25.0 mi
- Gay City State Park: 19.4 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Farmington Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnnycake Mountain | WNW 287° | 354 m | 9.6 mi |
| South Mountain | WSW 237° | 313 m | 8.1 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | SW 231° | 312 m | 9.9 mi |
| Scranton Mountain | WNW 293° | 300 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Hope | W 271° | 297 m | 8.1 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | SW 229° | 290 m | 8.5 mi |
| Schoolhouse Hill | WNW 302° | 288 m | 10.0 mi |
| Fall Mountain | WSW 242° | 284 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359263013
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 19 mi
- Tolland · 25 mi
- Longmeadow · 26 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 27 mi
- Somers · 27 mi
- Storrs · 30 mi
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