Mount Sanford
Mount Sanford rises to 263 m in Connecticut. West Peak stands 301 m to the northeast, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is YMCA Camp Mountain Laurel, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 17 miles off.
The story
Mount Sanford of south-central Connecticut, est. 886 feet (270 m), is the high point on a 2.25-mile (3.6 km) long traprock mountain ridge located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the city of New Haven. Mount Sanford is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. The Metacomet Ridge continues north from Mount Sanford as Peck Mountain and south as Mad Mare Hill and West Rock Ridge.
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Wikidata Q6923463, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 263 m
How to reach it
- 16.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- YMCA Camp Mountain Laurel: 0.7 mi
- Carmichael Sanctuary-Nettleton's Ravine: 0.7 mi
- Podgwaite Preserve: 0.9 mi
- Inverness Glen: 0.9 mi
- Russell Family Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Prospect Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Beacon Cap: 2.8 mi
- Talmadge Hill: 2.9 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.2 mi
- High Rock: 3.5 mi
- Maribeth McCarthy Demma: 1.8 mi
- Edgar Laing Heermance: 3.8 mi
- South Quad: 4.1 mi
- Honor Hill Monument: 4.6 mi
- Soldiers' Monument: 5.9 mi
- Old Kalinauskas Farm: 1.9 mi
- Forger Park: 2.1 mi
- Canfield Park: 2.8 mi
- Bartlem Park: 2.9 mi
- McGrath Park: 3.1 mi
- Jonathan Dickerman House: 3.8 mi
- Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum: 5.6 mi
- Naugatuck History Museum at the Tuttle House: 5.9 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 6.7 mi
- Farming Museum: 6.7 mi
- Bethany Community Garden: 4.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.5 mi
- Winnett Food Forest: 8.3 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 8.7 mi
- Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 8.7 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls: 1.5 mi
- Cascade: 1.5 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 3.5 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 3.6 mi
- Hopp Brook Falls: 3.9 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 6.6 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 7.0 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 11.7 mi
- Waterfront: 12.8 mi
- Boating Side: 12.8 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 6.5 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 11.0 mi
- Millstone: 11.2 mi
- Millstone: 11.2 mi
- Libby's Lump: 11.4 mi
- Maori Head: 7.6 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 8.0 mi
- Ben Franklin: 8.1 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 8.1 mi
- End of the Line/West Rock: 9.0 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 12.3 mi
- Bluff Head: 13.5 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 13.8 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 14.0 mi
- Bethel Rock: 14.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 12.8 mi
- Pond View: 18.0 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 18.1 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 18.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 18.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 8.0 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 8.8 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.4 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 13.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 13.6 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 22.9 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 22.9 mi
- Fog Signal House: 22.9 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 23.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 9.6 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.5 miles of Mount Sanford. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Peak | NE 38° | 301 m | 8.8 mi |
| Southington Mountain | N 0° | 281 m | 9.5 mi |
| East Peak | NE 41° | 277 m | 8.8 mi |
| Andrews Hill | WNW 282° | 275 m | 7.5 mi |
| Woodruff Hill | WNW 282° | 273 m | 9.3 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NNW 328° | 263 m | 4.9 mi |
| Prospect Hill | NNW 330° | 260 m | 3.2 mi |
| Hopkins Hill | WNW 299° | 259 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 38 | 49 | 60 | 69 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Carmel, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 210645 — Mount Sanford, South Central Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359269189
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