Riley Mountain
Riley Mountain rises to 223 m in Connecticut. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the north-northwest, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Boston Turnpike, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 19 miles off.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808514, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 223 m
How to reach it
- 19.1 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 23.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 12.9 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Boston Turnpike: 0.4 mi
- Old Tolland Turnpike Open Space: 0.5 mi
- Eastview Drive Open Space: 0.8 mi
- North River Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Woodmont Drive Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Lisicke Beach: 1.2 mi
- Laidlaw Park: 1.2 mi
- Merrow Meadow Park: 1.6 mi
- Pine Lake Community Club: 2.5 mi
- Patriots Park: 2.6 mi
- Cassidy Hill: 2.5 mi
- Grant Hill: 3.2 mi
- Ball Hill: 3.5 mi
- Pinney Hill: 3.9 mi
- Horsebarn Hill: 4.3 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 2.6 mi
- dog memorial: 3.4 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 3.7 mi
- Ronald E. Blake: 4.7 mi
- Frank Lombardi Memorial: 5.5 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 3.7 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 4.0 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 4.4 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 4.5 mi
- Hicks-Stearns Family Museum: 5.2 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 3.8 mi
- Mobius Solaris: 3.9 mi
- The Walking Wall: 3.9 mi
- Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid: 3.9 mi
- The Walking Wall: 3.9 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 3.8 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 3.8 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 3.8 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 4.0 mi
- filled-in well: 6.5 mi
- Wolf Rock: 6.7 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 8.9 mi
- Nike Missile Site: 10.4 mi
- Eagle Rock: 11.4 mi
- Cascades: 2.4 mi
- Cascades: 2.5 mi
- Codfish Falls: 5.5 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 7.5 mi
- Talcott Ravine: 8.3 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 6.0 mi
- Flag Rock: 6.2 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 6.6 mi
- Coney Rock: 6.7 mi
- Crow Point: 16.2 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 4.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 9.3 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 13.9 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 19.7 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 21.7 mi
- Gay City State Park: 7.7 mi
- Bara-Hack: 17.2 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.6 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 6.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.6 mi
- Picnic: 19.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.1 mi
- Windham Spring: 8.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of Riley Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NNW 332° | 294 m | 6.2 mi |
| Whifford Hill | NNE 30° | 291 m | 7.2 mi |
| Kendall Hill | NNW 348° | 290 m | 8.4 mi |
| Westford Hill | NE 42° | 290 m | 10.4 mi |
| Grant Hill | WNW 290° | 284 m | 3.2 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NNW 341° | 282 m | 6.8 mi |
| Reed Hill | NW 309° | 275 m | 4.9 mi |
| Parker Mountain | NNE 28° | 275 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359272610
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 4 mi
- Tolland · 5 mi
- Willimantic · 8 mi
- East Windsor · 14 mi
- Somers · 14 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 15 mi
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