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New Boston Hill

New Boston Hill, a peak in Connecticut
New Boston Hill, a peak in ConnecticutNOAA Office for Coastal Management / The USDA-FSA Aerial Photography Field office (crediting while reuse is desired as Courtesy Attribution) · Public domain
New Boston Hill, a peak in Connecticut
NOAA Office for Coastal Management / The USDA-FSA Aerial Photography Field office (crediting while reuse is desired as Courtesy Attribution) · Public domain

New Boston Hill rises to 217 m in Connecticut. Grant Hill stands 284 m to the north, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Boston Hill Road Open Space, a nature reserve 0.8 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 21 miles off.

About

The story

mountain in Connecticut, United States of America

Wikidata Q31808329, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
217 m
Getting there

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Coordinates41.71843, -72.40731
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Peaks
Historic sites
Parks
  • Andover Veterans Monument Park: 2.4 mi
  • Burnt Hill Park: 2.8 mi
  • Holbrook Pond Boat Launch: 3.5 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 4.4 mi
  • Columbia Recreation Park: 4.6 mi
Museums
Artworks
Attractions: 55
  • Insect Hotel: 4.4 mi
  • Eagle Rock: 4.9 mi
  • Car Wreck: 5.6 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 5.6 mi
  • Hay Tedder: 6.2 mi
Gardens: 52
  • Burnt Hill Park Comunity Garden: 2.7 mi
  • fern and rock garden: 5.8 mi
  • Mansfield Community Garden: 8.0 mi
  • Wickham Park English Garden: 9.7 mi
  • Wickham Park Irish Garden: 9.8 mi
Waterfalls: 48
  • Blackledge Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Cascade: 4.3 mi
  • Case Falls: 5.2 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 15
Beaches: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 13.3 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 13.4 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 20.7 mi
  • Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 22.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 10.6 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.7 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of New Boston Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Grant HillN 9°284 m6.9 mi
Reed HillN 2°275 m8.8 mi
MannantuckW 259°273 m3.4 mi
John Tom HillW 259°272 m3.4 mi
Meshomasic MountainSW 229°265 m9.3 mi
Box HillNNW 337°252 m6.3 mi
Clark HillSW 216°241 m10.5 mi
Post HillSE 132°239 m4.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1619:4620:28
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1415:3816:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936485866727063524233
Precip in3.63.04.44.23.74.54.04.34.54.63.94.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 209216 — New Boston Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.

OpenStreetMap element node/359266542

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