Molasses Hill
Molasses Hill rises to 96 m in Rhode Island. Keech Hill stands 194 m to the west, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Captain Wilbur Kelly House Transportation Museum, a museum 0.8 miles away. Great and Breakneck Hill Roads passes 1.3 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Rhode Island, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49050883, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 96 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads
- 4.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 8.1 mi off the Veteran's Memorial Parkway
- 15.7 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Overlooks nearby
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 7 mi
- Lookout Point · 8 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 12 mi
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Captain Wilbur Kelly House Transportation Museum: 0.8 mi
- Hearthside House Museum: 1.4 mi
- Johnston Historical Society: 5.2 mi
- Cape Verdean Museum Exhibit: 5.8 mi
- Rhode Island Jewish Museum: 6.4 mi
- Monk's Quarry: 1.6 mi
- Nine Men's Misery Monument: 1.9 mi
- Cumberland Veteran's Memorial: 2.0 mi
- Honor Roll: 4.2 mi
- Collyer Monument: 4.3 mi
- Gateway Park: 1.9 mi
- Lime Acres Park: 1.9 mi
- Lincoln Woods State Park: 2.0 mi
- Blackstone River Bikeway: 2.3 mi
- Arnold Park: 2.3 mi
- The Hummingbird Palace: 5.5 mi
- Veritas Eternaliter Juvenis (truth is eternally young): 5.6 mi
- McGlynn Sculpture Court: 5.7 mi
- Statue of Hachikō: 6.6 mi
- The Independent Man: 6.7 mi
- Jenckes Hill: 1.9 mi
- Hunting Hill: 2.3 mi
- Cumberland Hill: 2.5 mi
- Stump Hill: 2.8 mi
- Bear Hill: 2.9 mi
- Slater Mill: 4.4 mi
- Cumberlandite: 5.5 mi
- Waterplace Park: 7.0 mi
- Hunt House Root Cellar: 8.3 mi
- Hunts Mill Pump House: 8.3 mi
- Frank Moody State Beach: 2.6 mi
- Twin Rivers Beach East: 3.9 mi
- Georgiaville Beach: 4.3 mi
- Georgiaville Pond Beach: 4.3 mi
- Mountaindale Beach: 5.9 mi
- Aldrich-Marshall Woods: 1.1 mi
- Geddes Bowen Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Lonsdale Park: 1.7 mi
- Cumberland Monastery: 1.9 mi
- Hirsch Property: 3.2 mi
- Rain Gardens: 1.7 mi
- Sessions Street Community Garden: 6.3 mi
- Brown Street Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Garden of Heroes: 6.7 mi
- J. R. Workman Garden: 6.9 mi
- Fatboy Boulder: 1.4 mi
- Pond Cave: 1.4 mi
- Lower Heart: 1.9 mi
- Jade Boulder: 1.9 mi
- Summit Wall: 2.0 mi
- Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 1.0 mi
- Rest Area I-295 (North Bound): 1.0 mi
- Thirsty Beaver: 6.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 9.3 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 10.0 mi
- Cascade Brook Falls: 7.4 mi
- Ponogansett Falls: 15.2 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 18.7 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 18.9 mi
- Spencer Rock Waterfall: 23.0 mi
- 16-34: 8.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 17.0 mi
- Little Beach: 20.6 mi
- Big Beach: 20.9 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 6.8 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 19.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Molasses Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keech Hill | W 267° | 194 m | 9.1 mi |
| Woonsocket Hill | WNW 301° | 180 m | 6.9 mi |
| Whortleberry Hill | WNW 303° | 169 m | 5.2 mi |
| Nipsachuck Hill | W 279° | 167 m | 6.7 mi |
| Beacon Pole Hill | N 354° | 162 m | 4.8 mi |
| Den Hill | WNW 285° | 157 m | 9.0 mi |
| Rocky Hill | W 275° | 155 m | 3.6 mi |
| Catamint Hill | N 357° | 152 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:08 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:33 | 16:18 |
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 | 31 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Woonsocket, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357256993
Day trips start here
- Lincoln · 0 mi
- Central Falls · 3 mi
- Cumberland · 3 mi
- Pawtucket · 4 mi
- North Providence · 5 mi
- Providence/North and East · 5 mi
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