Horse Hill
Horse Hill rises to 236 m in Connecticut. Painter Hill stands 324 m to the north, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Koons Preserve, a nature reserve 1.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 19 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808062, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 236 m
How to reach it
- 18.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Koons Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Bassett Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Glaves Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Allen S. Hurlburt Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Leander Woods Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Bronson Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Flat Hill: 1.5 mi
- East Hill: 1.8 mi
- Rucum Hill: 2.0 mi
- Bates Rocks: 2.0 mi
- Traditions Park: 1.8 mi
- Platt Park: 2.7 mi
- George Bennett Park: 3.1 mi
- George Ewald Park: 3.1 mi
- Ballantine Park: 3.1 mi
- Old Town Hall Museum: 2.6 mi
- Glebe House Museum: 4.3 mi
- Everwonder Childrens Museum: 7.0 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 7.6 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 7.8 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 3.8 mi
- In Memory of George Washington: 4.2 mi
- Soldiers’ Monument: 4.4 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Candle wall: 5.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 4.3 mi
- Melanie Rieger Victims of Violent Crimes Memorial Garden: 11.0 mi
- Poet's Circle: 11.0 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 11.0 mi
- Biblical Garden: 11.1 mi
- Jackson Cove Beach: 7.7 mi
- North Beach: 9.6 mi
- South Beach: 9.7 mi
- Zoar Beach: 9.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.1 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 6.4 mi
- Southford Falls: 6.5 mi
- Prydden Brook Falls: 7.0 mi
- Nonnewaug Falls: 9.3 mi
- Spruce Brook Falls: 11.1 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 5.0 mi
- Millstone: 6.5 mi
- Indian village: 7.9 mi
- New Milford Tank: 8.7 mi
- Bethlehem Green Historic District: 10.1 mi
- Jean Widmark: 4.7 mi
- Lesser Evil: 9.7 mi
- greek letter pi: 11.0 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 11.5 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 12.5 mi
- Bethel Rock: 4.7 mi
- Lovers Leap: 7.1 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 8.8 mi
- Kelly Slide: 10.6 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 13.8 mi
- Pond View: 13.0 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 13.1 mi
- Oak Grove: 13.1 mi
- Cedar Grove: 13.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 15.1 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.4 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 19.8 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 23.3 mi
- The Silver Spring: 20.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 22.6 mi
- Dudley Town: 21.5 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 24.2 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 17.0 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Horse Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painter Hill | N 354° | 324 m | 6.7 mi |
| Good Hill | NNE 12° | 292 m | 3.8 mi |
| Great Hill | ENE 73° | 292 m | 7.6 mi |
| Second Hill | NW 306° | 285 m | 5.9 mi |
| Greenleaf Hill | NNW 345° | 282 m | 5.3 mi |
| Blackmans Hill | ENE 64° | 282 m | 6.2 mi |
| Botsford Hill | WNW 299° | 267 m | 3.9 mi |
| Mine Hill | NW 324° | 267 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359264532
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 25 mi
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