Monument Hill
Monument Hill rises to 199 m in Connecticut. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Boston Hill Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 21 miles off.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808263, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 199 m
How to reach it
- 21.2 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 25.7 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 14.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Boston Hill Road Open Space: 0.2 mi
- Shoddy Mill Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Lombardi Ridge Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Castlerock Lane: 1.2 mi
- Elizabeth Heights: 1.2 mi
- New Boston Hill: 0.9 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.9 mi
- Burnt Hill: 2.9 mi
- Whites Hill: 3.9 mi
- John Tom Hill: 4.0 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 1.3 mi
- dog memorial: 3.7 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 5.5 mi
- Wilcox Mill: 7.0 mi
- Wilcox Mill (Site of): 7.0 mi
- Andover Veterans Monument Park: 1.8 mi
- Burnt Hill Park: 3.5 mi
- Holbrook Pond Boat Launch: 4.1 mi
- Columbia Recreation Park: 4.6 mi
- Lower Bolton Lake Boat Launch: 4.9 mi
- Sorry Rock: 6.1 mi
- Frog: 8.1 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 9.2 mi
- Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid: 9.3 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 9.3 mi
- Lutz Children's Museum: 6.3 mi
- Cheney Homestead Museum: 6.8 mi
- The Fire Museum: 7.1 mi
- Old Manchester Museum: 7.2 mi
- Vernon Historical Society Museum: 8.2 mi
- Insect Hotel: 5.3 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 5.7 mi
- Eagle Rock: 5.8 mi
- Car Wreck: 6.2 mi
- Hay Tedder: 6.7 mi
- Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 3.4 mi
- fern and rock garden: 6.0 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 7.3 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 9.3 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 9.3 mi
- Blackledge Falls: 3.6 mi
- Cascade: 5.0 mi
- Case Falls: 5.0 mi
- Wyllys Falls: 5.2 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 7.0 mi
- Flag Rock: 4.8 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 9.9 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 10.5 mi
- Crow Point: 11.3 mi
- Coney Rock: 11.3 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 10.2 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.0 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 19.8 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 21.2 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 22.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 12.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 12.5 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 21.4 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 23.1 mi
- Gay City State Park: 2.0 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 16.9 mi
- Bara-Hack: 22.6 mi
- Windham Spring: 10.3 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Monument Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | N 4° | 294 m | 10.4 mi |
| Grant Hill | N 7° | 284 m | 6.0 mi |
| Reed Hill | N 360° | 275 m | 7.9 mi |
| Mannantuck | WSW 248° | 273 m | 4.0 mi |
| John Tom Hill | WSW 248° | 272 m | 4.0 mi |
| Meshomasic Mountain | SW 226° | 265 m | 10.1 mi |
| Box Hill | NNW 331° | 252 m | 5.7 mi |
| Post Hill | SE 141° | 239 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 209011 — Monument Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359266239
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 9 mi
- Tolland · 10 mi
- Willimantic · 10 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 11 mi
- East Windsor · 15 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 16 mi
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