Peck Mountain
Peck Mountain rises to 113 m in Connecticut. South Mountain stands 313 m to the north, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Open Space (Contour Drive), a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Peck Mountain of south-central Connecticut, 371 feet (113 m), is a traprock mountain ridge located in Cheshire, Connecticut. It 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 south from Peck Mountain as Mount Sanford and north as a diminishing series of hills that extend into Southington, Connecticut.
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Wikidata Q7158721, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 113 m
How to reach it
- 20.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Town Open Space (Contour Drive): 0.7 mi
- Briar Court & Salvadore Memorial Preserves: 1.0 mi
- Willow Brook Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Thomas Pool Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Strathmore Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Mixville Park: 1.0 mi
- Gateway Park: 1.3 mi
- Cheshire Park: 1.4 mi
- The Church Green: 1.9 mi
- McNamara Field: 2.1 mi
- Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum: 1.5 mi
- Andrews Homestead Museum: 5.5 mi
- Bradley Barnes Museum: 6.0 mi
- Meriden Historical Society Museum & History Center: 6.2 mi
- Connecticut State Police Museum: 6.6 mi
- Bluff Head: 1.6 mi
- Talmadge Hill: 3.1 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.3 mi
- Jinny Hill: 3.4 mi
- Turkey Hill: 4.0 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls: 2.9 mi
- Cascade: 2.9 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 6.0 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 6.1 mi
- Spruce Glen Falls: 6.7 mi
- Maribeth McCarthy Demma: 3.1 mi
- Rochambeau Monument: 3.3 mi
- Red Bridge: 4.3 mi
- Carrie Welton Fountain: 6.6 mi
- Clock-On-The-Green: 6.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 3.4 mi
- Sustainable Garden: 8.0 mi
- Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 8.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 8.0 mi
- Biblical Garden: 8.0 mi
- Maori Head: 6.2 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 6.7 mi
- Ben Franklin: 6.8 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 6.8 mi
- Home: 12.3 mi
- Libby's Lump: 7.2 mi
- 1954: 9.6 mi
- World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 10.6 mi
- Washington Trail monument: 10.6 mi
- Rock House: 11.8 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 3.0 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 4.3 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 9.7 mi
- Boating Side: 9.9 mi
- Waterfront: 9.9 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 9.7 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 12.1 mi
- Green Wall: 13.1 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 13.2 mi
- Bluff Head: 13.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 9.9 mi
- Pond View: 21.6 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 21.7 mi
- Oak Grove: 22.1 mi
- Cedar Grove: 22.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 3.6 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 8.5 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 9.5 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 17.9 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 18.0 mi
- Cold Spring: 13.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Peck Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mountain | N 351° | 313 m | 8.9 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | NNW 342° | 312 m | 7.3 mi |
| Clinton Hill | NW 326° | 303 m | 8.0 mi |
| West Peak | NE 55° | 301 m | 4.9 mi |
| Becar Hill | NNW 333° | 297 m | 7.7 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | N 353° | 290 m | 7.7 mi |
| Fall Mountain | NNW 337° | 284 m | 9.2 mi |
| Southington Mountain | NNW 346° | 281 m | 5.6 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 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 209675 — Peck Mountain, Naugatuck Valley County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359267355
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- Essex · 30 mi
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