Grant Hill
Grant Hill rises to 284 m in Connecticut. Soapstone Mountain stands 315 m to the north, 9.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Skyview Drive Open Space, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 22 miles off.
The story
mountain in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31807981, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 284 m
How to reach it
- 22.1 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 26.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 16.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Skyview Drive Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Wolf Hill Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Alice Drive Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Grant Hill Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Hannah Lane Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Upper Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.9 mi
- Middle Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 1.9 mi
- Indian Notch Park: 2.2 mi
- Laidlaw Park: 2.3 mi
- Bolton Lake Boat Launch & Dam: 2.4 mi
- Reed Hill: 2.1 mi
- Cassidy Hill: 3.0 mi
- Riley Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Box Hill: 3.6 mi
- Fox Hill: 4.3 mi
- Ronald E. Blake: 3.1 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 4.9 mi
- dog memorial: 5.2 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 5.4 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 6.8 mi
- Hicks-Stearns Family Museum: 3.9 mi
- Old Tolland County Jail and Museum: 3.9 mi
- Vernon Historical Society Museum: 4.3 mi
- New England Civil War Museum: 4.7 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 6.7 mi
- Sorry Rock: 5.1 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 6.9 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 6.9 mi
- The Walking Wall: 6.9 mi
- Slip Edge Bis: 6.9 mi
- Tolland Youth Garden: 3.6 mi
- sensory garden: 5.2 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 6.2 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 6.5 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 6.8 mi
- filled-in well: 3.3 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 8.5 mi
- Wolf Rock: 9.8 mi
- Hay Tedder: 10.7 mi
- Insect Hotel: 11.0 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 4.5 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 5.2 mi
- Cascades: 5.4 mi
- Cascades: 5.4 mi
- Case Falls: 6.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 3.7 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 9.1 mi
- Coney Rock: 9.8 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 9.8 mi
- Crow Point: 14.1 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 5.3 mi
- Sandy Beach: 8.0 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 14.0 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 16.8 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 23.2 mi
- Gay City State Park: 6.9 mi
- Bara-Hack: 19.8 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.9 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.3 mi
- Picnic: 20.9 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 24.6 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 7.0 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.0 mi
- Windham Spring: 11.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Grant Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soapstone Mountain | N 352° | 315 m | 9.9 mi |
| Paulk Hill | N 1° | 294 m | 4.4 mi |
| Whifford Hill | NE 52° | 291 m | 8.4 mi |
| Kendall Hill | N 10° | 290 m | 7.3 mi |
| Sugar Hill | N 9° | 282 m | 5.4 mi |
| Reed Hill | NNW 338° | 275 m | 2.1 mi |
| Parker Mountain | NE 47° | 275 m | 9.5 mi |
| Chestnut Mountain | N 0° | 275 m | 11.2 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 | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 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 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 207399 — Grant Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359263708
Day trips start here
- Tolland · 4 mi
- Storrs · 7 mi
- East Windsor · 11 mi
- Willimantic · 11 mi
- Somers · 12 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 17 mi
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