Mount Algo
Mount Algo rises to 355 m in Connecticut. Ellsworth Hill stands 473 m to the north-northeast, 5.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Grand Staircase, a cliff 0.3 miles away.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808279, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 355 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Thayer Brook Hill: 0.5 mi
- Numeral Rock: 0.7 mi
- Chapel Pond Hill: 0.7 mi
- Glacier Rock: 0.8 mi
- North Preston Hill: 1.1 mi
- Kent Commons Park: 0.8 mi
- Kent Green: 1.0 mi
- Ketcham Park: 4.1 mi
- Charlie Jones Veterans Memorial Park: 5.2 mi
- Fireman's Field: 5.6 mi
- Emery Park: 1.7 mi
- Currie Sanctuary: 2.5 mi
- Kent Mountain Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Alice McCallister Memorial Sanctuary: 3.6 mi
- Iron Mountain Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 2.9 mi
- Jim Hulton: 7.3 mi
- Mill Ruins: 7.8 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 8.6 mi
- Lime Kiln: 11.4 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 1.6 mi
- Northrop House: 10.1 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 10.7 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 10.7 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 11.3 mi
- Kent Falls: 5.4 mi
- New Preston Falls: 7.8 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 9.5 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 11.7 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 13.1 mi
- Judea Garden: 8.6 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 13.5 mi
- Personal Gardens: 16.0 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 17.3 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 19.4 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 5.1 mi
- Peter's Forge: 10.3 mi
- New Milford Tank: 10.9 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 11.6 mi
- Indian village: 11.7 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 10.5 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 10.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 13.5 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 14.0 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.6 mi
- Grand Staircase: 0.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 0.4 mi
- Kelly Slide: 10.0 mi
- Lovers Leap: 13.4 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 19.0 mi
- Jean Widmark: 15.7 mi
- greek letter pi: 21.5 mi
- Lesser Evil: 21.6 mi
- Evelyn Rimai Fisher Sculpture: 22.7 mi
- Mitchell Gate: 22.8 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 17.0 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 17.1 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Dudley Town: 9.3 mi
- Dicktown: 22.5 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 23.1 mi
- Picnic Grove: 24.0 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 3.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of Mount Algo. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellsworth Hill | NNE 21° | 473 m | 5.8 mi |
| Above All | E 88° | 450 m | 7.2 mi |
| Preston Hill | SW 235° | 442 m | 1.6 mi |
| North Preston Hill | W 261° | 441 m | 1.1 mi |
| Skiff Mountain | NNE 27° | 431 m | 5.3 mi |
| Bromica Mountain | ENE 70° | 428 m | 4.4 mi |
| Chapel Pond Hill | SW 230° | 426 m | 0.7 mi |
| Cobble Mountain | N 354° | 426 m | 3.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 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 | 28 | 36 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millbrook 3 W, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205060 — Mount Algo, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359259472
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 24 mi
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