Red Mountain
Red Mountain rises to 311 m in Connecticut. Bald Peak stands 588 m to the north-northwest, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Hamlin Preserve, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 28 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808506, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 311 m
How to reach it
- 28.5 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Named places within 25 miles
- Mine Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Gay Woods Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Easter: 1.4 mi
- Tan Fat Hill: 1.8 mi
- Sharon Mountain-North Peak: 2.4 mi
- Mudge Pond Town Beach: 2.5 mi
- Bauer Park: 3.9 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 3.9 mi
- Cannon Park And Ballfield: 4.0 mi
- Veterans Field: 4.0 mi
- Hamlin Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Wikes Easement: 0.7 mi
- Beeslick Pond: 1.1 mi
- Bauer Woods: 1.4 mi
- Beardsley Pond: 1.5 mi
- Gay-Holt House Museum: 3.4 mi
- Holley Williams House Museum: 4.1 mi
- FV - Canaan Historical Society: 4.4 mi
- Cornwall Historical Society: 6.5 mi
- Connecticut Railroad Historical Museum: 9.5 mi
- Folly: 3.7 mi
- Lime Kiln: 4.0 mi
- Dough Boy: 9.5 mi
- East Canaan Veterans Monument: 10.2 mi
- Tri-State Marker: 10.3 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 4.1 mi
- Dean's Ravine Falls: 4.2 mi
- Great Falls: 4.6 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 5.4 mi
- Riga Falls: 7.0 mi
- Town Hill Farm: 2.0 mi
- Giant's Thumb: 4.9 mi
- Beckley Furnace: 9.8 mi
- wings castle: 13.9 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 14.4 mi
- Grand Staircase: 13.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 13.6 mi
- Hornet's Nest: 17.8 mi
- Winsted Cliffs: 18.3 mi
- The Beech: 21.4 mi
- Holland Beach: 17.4 mi
- Sandy Beach: 17.8 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 18.5 mi
- East Beach: 19.1 mi
- West Beach: 19.6 mi
- Judea Garden: 16.3 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 18.0 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 19.7 mi
- Heritage Garden: 23.3 mi
- Old Dutch Village Garden Club: 23.9 mi
- Newsboy Statue: 19.1 mi
- Liebowitz Letter: 20.8 mi
- Naked Lady: 21.0 mi
- Diving Lady: 21.2 mi
- Jean Widmark: 24.8 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 17.9 mi
- Hermit spring: 19.4 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 21.8 mi
- Big Spring: 22.0 mi
- Dudley Town: 7.9 mi
- Questing: 17.2 mi
- Guilder Pond Picnic area: 13.7 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 16.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Red Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Peak | NNW 344° | 588 m | 7.5 mi |
| Mount Riga | NNW 339° | 534 m | 6.4 mi |
| Lion's Head | N 351° | 531 m | 6.9 mi |
| Thorpe Mountain | NNW 330° | 518 m | 6.5 mi |
| Bird Peak | NNW 328° | 477 m | 5.7 mi |
| Howe Mountain | E 90° | 473 m | 6.4 mi |
| Ellsworth Hill | S 191° | 473 m | 7.5 mi |
| Titus Mountain | E 87° | 464 m | 7.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Falls Village, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359268051
Day trips start here
- Great Barrington · 20 mi
- Monterey · 22 mi
- Berkshires · 23 mi
- Otis · 26 mi
- Stockbridge · 27 mi
- Lee · 29 mi
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