Ragged Mountain
Ragged Mountain rises to 217 m in Connecticut. Lindsley Hill stands 312 m to the west, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Wedgewood Wildlife Sanctuary, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 29 miles off.
The story
Ragged Mountain, est. 761 feet (232 m), is a traprock mountain ridge located 3 miles (5 km) west of New Britain, Connecticut, in the towns of Southington and Berlin, Connecticut. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. The mountain, a popular hiking and rock climbing attraction located between metropolitan Hartford and Meriden, is known for expansive vistas, vertical cliff faces, mountain ridge reservoirs, unique microclimate ecosystems, and rare plant communities. Ragged Mountain is traversed by the 51-mile (82 km) Metacomet Trail.
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Wikidata Q3417483, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 217 m
How to reach it
- 29.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Wedgewood Wildlife Sanctuary: 0.9 mi
- Ragged Mountain Memorial Preserve: 1.1 mi
- Ragged Mountain Parcel: 1.3 mi
- Pine Tree Rifle Club: 1.3 mi
- Town Of Berlin (Warner Road): 1.8 mi
- Short Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Turkey Hill: 2.0 mi
- Churchill Hill: 2.5 mi
- Bradley Mountain: 2.9 mi
- West Peak: 4.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 1.5 mi
- Griswold Park: 2.3 mi
- Percival Field: 2.3 mi
- Paper Goods Pond Park: 2.4 mi
- Martha Hart Park: 2.8 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park: 2.6 mi
- Berlin Historical Society: 2.9 mi
- Bradley Barnes Museum: 3.0 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum: 3.9 mi
- New Britain Industrial Museum: 4.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 5.1 mi
- Cromwell Community Garden: 7.0 mi
- Sunken Garden: 7.2 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 7.3 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 8.5 mi
- Kensington Soldier's Monument: 2.1 mi
- World War I Monument: 3.7 mi
- New Britain Soldiers' Monument: 4.0 mi
- Borinqueneers Monument: 4.6 mi
- plinth: 4.9 mi
- Hospital Rock: 5.2 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 5.7 mi
- Libby's Lump: 5.8 mi
- Come On Over Wall: 9.7 mi
- Lamothe Sugar House: 10.2 mi
- Home: 3.9 mi
- CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 6.8 mi
- First Tear: 8.8 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 9.9 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 10.7 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 1.5 mi
- Westfield Falls: 6.1 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 7.1 mi
- Spruce Glen Falls: 8.1 mi
- Wadsworth Falls: 9.1 mi
- Green Wall: 5.8 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 5.9 mi
- South Wall: 10.4 mi
- Solar Panel: 10.4 mi
- Superstructure: 10.4 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 6.6 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 8.1 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 8.3 mi
- Boating Side: 11.3 mi
- Waterfront: 11.4 mi
- Cold Spring: 20.6 mi
- Hermit spring: 21.1 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 23.1 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 24.4 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 5.3 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 6.0 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 11.1 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 20.4 mi
- Gay City State Park: 21.1 mi
- Picnic Grove: 11.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.6 miles of Ragged Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsley Hill | W 273° | 312 m | 7.4 mi |
| Clinton Hill | W 270° | 303 m | 9.6 mi |
| West Peak | SSW 196° | 301 m | 4.0 mi |
| Becar Hill | W 272° | 297 m | 8.6 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | W 280° | 290 m | 6.1 mi |
| Fall Mountain | WNW 282° | 284 m | 8.9 mi |
| Southington Mountain | W 260° | 281 m | 6.6 mi |
| East Peak | S 190° | 277 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:40 | 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, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359267962
Day trips start here
- Connecticut River Valley · 25 mi
- East Windsor · 25 mi
- Essex · 29 mi
- Tolland · 29 mi
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