Mount Pisgah
Mount Pisgah rises to 196 m in Connecticut. Higby Mountain stands 272 m to the north-northwest, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Pisgah Open Space, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808300, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 196 m
How to reach it
- 25.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 27.9 mi off the North Fork Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Pisgah Open Space: 0.3 mi
- Gulielmetti Open Space: 0.4 mi
- Mica Ledges: 0.6 mi
- Durham Rod And Gun Club: 0.7 mi
- Parmelee Brook Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Durham Town Green: 1.7 mi
- Allyn Brook Park: 2.0 mi
- Quonnipaug Lake Boat Launch: 3.5 mi
- Guilford Town Park: 4.1 mi
- Guida Farms Conservation Area: 4.1 mi
- Durham Historical Society: 1.7 mi
- Wadsworth Mansion: 6.1 mi
- Haddam Shad Museum: 6.7 mi
- Haddam Veterans' Museum: 6.8 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 7.4 mi
- Durham Volunteer Firefighters Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Durham War Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Charlie Cotttrell: 6.4 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 6.4 mi
- Colonel Clarence S. Wadsworth: 6.7 mi
- Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 4.2 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Memorial Garden: 8.2 mi
- Erin Street Community Garden: 8.2 mi
- Gingers Garden: 10.8 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 0.8 mi
- Strawberry Hill: 1.6 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.6 mi
- Trimountain: 3.3 mi
- Three Notches: 3.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 5.7 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 10.0 mi
- Jacobs Public Beach: 12.3 mi
- Circle Beach: 12.5 mi
- East Rive Beach: 12.5 mi
- snake: 2.8 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 7.7 mi
- First Tear: 7.8 mi
- Totem Pole: 8.3 mi
- James Madison: 12.2 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 0.9 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 2.9 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 3.3 mi
- Middletown-Durham boundary stone: 3.9 mi
- Bear Cave: 5.5 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 3.1 mi
- Wadsworth Falls: 5.6 mi
- Wadsworth Little Falls: 5.7 mi
- Seven Falls: 6.3 mi
- Nineveh Falls: 6.9 mi
- Bluff Head: 2.8 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 2.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.8 mi
- Chimney Corner: 13.9 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 17.0 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 5.6 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 8.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 16.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 22.6 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 11.2 mi
- Gay City State Park: 22.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 14.8 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 21.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Mount Pisgah. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higby Mountain | NNW 334° | 272 m | 8.0 mi |
| Trimountain | WNW 285° | 232 m | 3.3 mi |
| Fowler Mountain | W 266° | 230 m | 3.5 mi |
| Beseck Mountain | NW 321° | 219 m | 5.9 mi |
| Pistapaug Mountain | WSW 252° | 210 m | 3.5 mi |
| Camels Hump | NNW 332° | 207 m | 7.5 mi |
| Goose Hill | E 93° | 201 m | 5.6 mi |
| Bear Hill | NE 39° | 199 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 209823 — Mount Pisgah, Lower Connecticut River Valley County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359267553
Day trips start here
- Essex · 16 mi
- Old Saybrook · 18 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 20 mi
- Old Lyme · 21 mi
- East Lyme · 24 mi
- Montville · 27 mi
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