Mount Tom
Mount Tom rises to 300 m in Connecticut. Bear Hill stands 390 m to the north, 2.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Tom Preserve, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 29 miles off.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808310, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 300 m
How to reach it
- 28.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Tom Preserve: 0.3 mi
- Carlson's Grove: 2.0 mi
- Nostrand Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Eleanor and Howard Hunt Nature Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Kahn Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Iron Hill: 1.9 mi
- Aspetuck Hill: 2.3 mi
- Bear Hill: 2.4 mi
- West Meetinghouse Hill: 2.5 mi
- Boardman Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Sega Meadows Park: 2.9 mi
- New Milford Center Historic District: 3.0 mi
- Little League Field: 3.0 mi
- Emmanuel Williamson Park: 3.2 mi
- Youngs Field: 3.3 mi
- Jim Hulton: 2.9 mi
- Mill Ruins: 4.5 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 4.5 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 7.2 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 7.6 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 3.0 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 4.4 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 5.0 mi
- Northrop House: 5.7 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 6.0 mi
- New Preston Falls: 4.5 mi
- Cascades: 6.9 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 8.2 mi
- Lower Falls: 10.3 mi
- Upper Falls: 10.3 mi
- New Milford Tank: 3.2 mi
- Indian village: 4.4 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 5.8 mi
- Peter's Forge: 8.6 mi
- Bellamy-Ferriday Garden: 10.3 mi
- Judea Garden: 5.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 11.8 mi
- Personal Gardens: 12.4 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 15.3 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 17.0 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 5.7 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 5.7 mi
- Pine Ledge: 7.8 mi
- North Beach: 10.1 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 10.4 mi
- Kelly Slide: 3.6 mi
- Lovers Leap: 5.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 7.8 mi
- Grand Staircase: 8.2 mi
- Bethel Rock: 12.1 mi
- Jean Widmark: 8.1 mi
- Lesser Evil: 14.5 mi
- greek letter pi: 14.7 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 17.5 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 19.4 mi
- Picnic Grove: 18.9 mi
- Oak Grove: 23.0 mi
- Pond View: 23.1 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 23.1 mi
- Cedar Grove: 23.3 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 17.1 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 17.2 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 17.3 mi
- Dudley Town: 13.0 mi
- Dicktown: 21.6 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 6.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.5 miles of Mount Tom. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Hill | N 10° | 390 m | 2.4 mi |
| Segar Mountain | NNW 333° | 366 m | 6.3 mi |
| Tinker Hill | NNE 26° | 364 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Bushnell | NNE 31° | 363 m | 4.7 mi |
| Turner Mountain | WSW 244° | 362 m | 6.4 mi |
| Peet Hill | NNW 340° | 359 m | 3.6 mi |
| Leonard Mountain | NNW 332° | 357 m | 6.4 mi |
| Flat Rock | NNW 348° | 348 m | 5.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211501 — Mount Tom, Western Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359270444
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- Putnam County · 22 mi
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