Sunset Hill
Sunset Hill rises to 240 m in Connecticut. Ragged Hill stands 265 m to the north-northeast, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Maurice and Rita Edwards Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 6.4 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Windham County, Connecticut, United States of America (GNIS ID = 211296).
Wikidata Q31808683, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 240 m
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 11.8 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 6.3 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 26.2 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Acres Lake Boat Launch: 1.3 mi
- Hampton Reservoir Boat Launch: 2.3 mi
- Edward Garrison Park: 2.5 mi
- Halls Pond Boat Launch: 3.5 mi
- Mount Hope Park: 4.7 mi
- Maurice and Rita Edwards Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Fuller Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Edwin Way Teale Memorial Sanctuary at Trail Wood: 1.5 mi
- Stone Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Natchaug River Water Access: 1.9 mi
- Bear Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hampton Hill: 1.3 mi
- Clark Hill: 1.8 mi
- Cherry Hill: 3.0 mi
- Shaw Hill: 3.0 mi
- Wolf Den Plaque: 5.8 mi
- World War II Veterans Memorial: 6.7 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 6.7 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 6.7 mi
- Israel Putnam Memorial: 6.7 mi
- Marcy Blacksmith Museum: 6.7 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 7.5 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 8.4 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 8.5 mi
- Prudence Crandall Museum: 8.7 mi
- Weaving Shuttle: 8.5 mi
- U’s and C’s: 8.5 mi
- Copper Tower: 8.6 mi
- The Fallen: 8.9 mi
- Stone Book Universe: 8.9 mi
- Frog Rock: 5.3 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road: 6.7 mi
- Bara-Hack Abandoned Village: 6.8 mi
- Wolf Rock: 7.3 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 7.4 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 2.9 mi
- Codfish Falls: 7.9 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 9.7 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 11.1 mi
- Cargill Falls: 12.0 mi
- Thread City Family Garden: 8.0 mi
- Mary's Garden: 8.8 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 9.0 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 9.1 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 9.2 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 11.8 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 12.1 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 15.9 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 16.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 17.8 mi
- Coney Rock: 6.2 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 6.9 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 7.4 mi
- Flag Rock: 19.0 mi
- Woodward's Rock: 20.3 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 13.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 13.1 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 22.3 mi
- Bara-Hack: 6.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 19.2 mi
- Windham Spring: 7.9 mi
- Picnic: 15.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Sunset Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ragged Hill | NNE 18° | 265 m | 7.8 mi |
| Deacon Tim Perrin Hill | NNE 15° | 265 m | 8.7 mi |
| Sprague Hill | N 5° | 257 m | 4.9 mi |
| Sherman Hill | NNE 16° | 252 m | 5.8 mi |
| Wheaton Hill | NNE 19° | 251 m | 7.1 mi |
| Pisgah Hill | NNE 11° | 248 m | 6.3 mi |
| Pumpkin Hill | NW 326° | 241 m | 4.1 mi |
| Summer Hill | NNW 343° | 236 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:36 | 16:21 |
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 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 65 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hampton, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359270156
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 9 mi
- Willimantic · 9 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 11 mi
- Putnam · 12 mi
- Woodstock · 12 mi
- Union · 14 mi
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