King Hill
King Hill rises to 175 m in Connecticut. Mount Riga stands 534 m to the north, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Veterans Field, a park 0.4 miles away.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808147, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 175 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Cemetery Hill: 0.6 mi
- Tan Fat Hill: 2.5 mi
- Indian Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Deming Hill: 3.2 mi
- Red Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Veterans Field: 0.4 mi
- Mudge Pond Town Beach: 2.1 mi
- Bucksbaum Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Bauer Park: 6.0 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 6.2 mi
- Benton Hill Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Von Ahn Preserve: 2.0 mi
- The Nature Conservancy Benton Hill Fen (Owned): 2.2 mi
- Moore Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Beardsley Pond: 2.3 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 0.8 mi
- Holley Williams House Museum: 6.2 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 8.1 mi
- Cornwall Historical Society: 8.6 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 10.0 mi
- Lime Kiln: 0.5 mi
- Folly: 1.5 mi
- Moravian Christian Mission Monument: 9.3 mi
- War Memorial: 10.9 mi
- Tri-State Marker: 11.5 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 6.2 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 6.3 mi
- Dean's Ravine Falls: 7.9 mi
- Great Falls: 8.2 mi
- Kent Falls: 8.5 mi
- East Beach: 18.1 mi
- West Beach: 18.5 mi
- Sandy Beach: 18.9 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 19.2 mi
- Holland Beach: 20.9 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 4.7 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 8.0 mi
- wings castle: 10.2 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 11.2 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 13.5 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 15.9 mi
- Judea Garden: 16.0 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 19.7 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 21.3 mi
- The Anna Jones Meditation Garden: 23.6 mi
- Diving Lady: 20.5 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 21.6 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 23.1 mi
- Naked Lady: 23.4 mi
- Parliament of Reality: 23.5 mi
- Grand Staircase: 10.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.4 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 20.0 mi
- Kelly Slide: 20.9 mi
- Winsted Cliffs: 21.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 8.8 mi
- Questing: 20.5 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 21.3 mi
- Hermit spring: 22.6 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 14.3 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 15.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of King Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Riga | N 8° | 534 m | 7.8 mi |
| Lion's Head | NNE 14° | 531 m | 8.9 mi |
| Thorpe Mountain | N 1° | 518 m | 7.4 mi |
| Bird Peak | N 3° | 477 m | 6.6 mi |
| Ellsworth Hill | SSE 161° | 473 m | 5.9 mi |
| Whitcomb Hill | SE 137° | 459 m | 8.7 mi |
| Cream Hill | E 82° | 452 m | 8.7 mi |
| Sharon Mountain | ESE 110° | 445 m | 4.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 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 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Falls Village, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1932109 — King Hill, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359281511
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 23 mi
- Monterey · 25 mi
- Berkshires · 26 mi
- Stockbridge · 29 mi
- Otis · 30 mi
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