Mount Tom
Mount Tom rises to 109 m in Connecticut. West Peak stands 301 m to the north, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Lufbery Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 20 miles off.
The story
Mountain in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808314, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 109 m
How to reach it
- 19.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Lufbery Park: 0.2 mi
- Lakeside Park: 0.5 mi
- Wallace Park: 0.7 mi
- Town Open Space (Schoolhouse Rd.& Algonquin Drive): 0.7 mi
- Grand & Washington Streets Park: 0.8 mi
- Town Open Space (Lynn Drive & Mohican Lane): 0.6 mi
- Watrous Woods: 0.8 mi
- Community Lake: 0.9 mi
- Town Open Space (Ridgeknoll Road & Gaye Lane): 1.2 mi
- Town Open Space (Jenna Road): 1.2 mi
- Wallingford Historical Society: 1.3 mi
- Farming Museum: 4.2 mi
- Jonathan Dickerman House: 4.3 mi
- Andrews Homestead Museum: 5.5 mi
- Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum: 5.5 mi
- Wallingford Community Garden: 3.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.4 mi
- Lyman Orchards Sunflower Maze: 6.4 mi
- Winnett Food Forest: 9.2 mi
- Pardee Rose Garden: 9.4 mi
- Spice Hill: 0.8 mi
- Cook Hill: 1.2 mi
- Jinny Hill: 2.5 mi
- Pond Hill: 3.2 mi
- Mount Carmel: 3.4 mi
- Lyman Hall Monument: 1.1 mi
- Wallingford World War II Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Wallingford World War I Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Wallingford Korean War Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Edgar Laing Heermance: 4.1 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 4.1 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 6.6 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 8.8 mi
- Hotchkiss Cove Beach: 13.8 mi
- Hotchkiss Grove Beach: 14.0 mi
- snake: 9.5 mi
- Henry Gould Lewis: 9.7 mi
- Turtle Statue: 10.4 mi
- End of the Line/West Rock: 10.8 mi
- Beacon of Hope: 10.8 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 5.4 mi
- Selectmen's Stones: 8.6 mi
- Bear Cave: 8.8 mi
- Dodge Dump Truck: 9.5 mi
- Middletown-Durham boundary stone: 10.6 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 2.9 mi
- Spruce Glen Falls: 3.6 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls: 5.4 mi
- Wolcott Falls: 5.9 mi
- Stair Brook Falls: 6.6 mi
- Bluff Head: 8.3 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 8.8 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 13.9 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 15.6 mi
- Chimney Corner: 16.3 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 3.2 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 8.1 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 8.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 16.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 16.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 15.7 mi
- Gulf Beach Picnic Tables: 20.4 mi
- Pond View: 22.8 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 22.9 mi
- Oak Grove: 23.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 19.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Mount Tom. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Peak | N 359° | 301 m | 6.9 mi |
| East Peak | N 2° | 277 m | 6.5 mi |
| Higby Mountain | NE 40° | 272 m | 8.0 mi |
| Mount Sanford | W 270° | 263 m | 5.6 mi |
| Turkey Hill | WNW 297° | 263 m | 9.2 mi |
| Prospect Hill | WNW 291° | 260 m | 7.7 mi |
| Hopkins Hill | W 281° | 259 m | 8.9 mi |
| Prospect Mountain | W 276° | 253 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:47 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:41 | 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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359270433
Day trips start here
- Essex · 25 mi
- Old Saybrook · 26 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 27 mi
- Old Lyme · 30 mi
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