Pumpkin Hill
Pumpkin Hill rises to 187 m in Connecticut. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west-northwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Bridgewater Town Park, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 22 miles off.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808471, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 187 m
How to reach it
- 22.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Harrybrooke Park: 0.9 mi
- Willow Springs Playground: 1.6 mi
- Clatter Valley Park: 1.7 mi
- Addis Park: 2.1 mi
- Kahlo Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Wolf Pit Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Gallows Hill: 1.7 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.7 mi
- Carmen Hill: 1.9 mi
- Great Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 6.7 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 6.9 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 6.9 mi
- Jim Hulton: 7.2 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 5.4 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.6 mi
- Upper Falls: 6.7 mi
- New Preston Falls: 10.7 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 11.3 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 1.0 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 3.9 mi
- Northrop House: 6.0 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 7.2 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 8.8 mi
- Personal Gardens: 9.4 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 10.2 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 10.3 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 10.3 mi
- Judea Garden: 11.5 mi
- New Milford Tank: 3.6 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 4.4 mi
- Indian village: 7.3 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 9.0 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 10.7 mi
- North Beach: 4.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 4.3 mi
- South Beach: 4.4 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 5.1 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 5.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 1.1 mi
- Kelly Slide: 4.6 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 6.5 mi
- Bethel Rock: 10.6 mi
- Pine Ledge: 14.0 mi
- Lesser Evil: 7.7 mi
- Jean Widmark: 7.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 8.0 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 10.6 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 15.5 mi
- Oak Grove: 16.8 mi
- Pond View: 16.9 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 16.9 mi
- Cedar Grove: 17.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.2 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 11.1 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 16.5 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 16.5 mi
- Dicktown: 19.4 mi
- Dudley Town: 19.7 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 11.7 mi
- The Silver Spring: 19.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.5 miles of Pumpkin Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | WNW 302° | 405 m | 8.2 mi |
| Birch Hill | W 269° | 386 m | 7.8 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | W 260° | 376 m | 8.2 mi |
| Branch Hill | WNW 297° | 370 m | 7.2 mi |
| Seeley Hill | NW 304° | 368 m | 8.5 mi |
| Turner Mountain | NW 305° | 362 m | 7.1 mi |
| Beaver Bog Mountain | WSW 252° | 358 m | 6.0 mi |
| Wanzer Mountain | W 275° | 346 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:43 | 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359267837
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 19 mi
- Cold Spring · 29 mi
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