Taine Mountain
Taine Mountain rises to 268 m in Connecticut. Cotton Hill stands 360 m to the west-northwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Town of Farmington Open Space, a nature reserve 0.7 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 30 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808690, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 268 m
How to reach it
- 29.5 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
Named places within 25 miles
- Malerbo Rec Complex: 1.4 mi
- Suburban Park: 1.7 mi
- Yodkin-Morin Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Little League Field: 2.6 mi
- Sycamore Hills Park: 2.7 mi
- Unionville Museum: 1.4 mi
- Canton Historical Museum: 3.2 mi
- Day-Lewis Museum: 5.3 mi
- Avon Historical Society Museum: 5.4 mi
- Stanley-Whitman House Museum: 5.5 mi
- 1780s dam site: 0.9 mi
- Kettles: 1.7 mi
- Swimming Pool: 1.7 mi
- Carousel: 1.7 mi
- Trolley Offices Sign: 1.7 mi
- Mine Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Wildcat Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Woodford Hill: 1.9 mi
- Huckleberry Hill: 2.0 mi
- Barnes Hill: 2.7 mi
- Pavilion Cafe/Ice Cream Parlor: 1.7 mi
- Kathy Ebersold plaque: 1.8 mi
- Vincent H. Core Memorial: 3.4 mi
- James P. Casey plaque: 6.2 mi
- Newton C. Brainard: 6.5 mi
- Larry Kolp Community Gardens: 4.6 mi
- Sunken Garden: 5.7 mi
- Perennial Garden: 8.1 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 8.1 mi
- 5-Sense Garden: 8.1 mi
- Town of Farmington Open Space: 0.7 mi
- Property of Marilyn P. Cohen: 0.7 mi
- Town Open Space (Burlington Road): 1.4 mi
- Town of Avon Open Space: 1.5 mi
- Countryside Park: 1.5 mi
- Bike Sculpture: 7.9 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 8.8 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 9.0 mi
- Home: 9.7 mi
- Painted Cow: 9.9 mi
- Seven Steps Falls: 2.0 mi
- Fetzer Falls: 2.1 mi
- Whigville Falls: 2.9 mi
- Burlington Falls: 2.9 mi
- Bunnell's Falls: 3.0 mi
- Petro Cliffs: 5.1 mi
- Ravens Roost: 5.3 mi
- Superstructure: 5.9 mi
- Solar Panel: 5.9 mi
- South Wall: 5.9 mi
- Boating Side: 11.1 mi
- Waterfront: 11.2 mi
- Holland Beach: 14.0 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 14.5 mi
- Sandy Beach: 15.7 mi
- Hermit spring: 10.2 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 11.8 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 13.4 mi
- Big Spring: 13.8 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 13.2 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 17.0 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 22.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 11.2 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 24.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 22.7 mi
- Gay City State Park: 24.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.3 miles of Taine Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Hill | WNW 296° | 360 m | 7.4 mi |
| Ratlum Mountain | N 356° | 358 m | 8.6 mi |
| Johnnycake Mountain | W 260° | 354 m | 4.1 mi |
| Scoville Hill | W 267° | 340 m | 9.3 mi |
| Hayden Hill | WNW 295° | 332 m | 9.2 mi |
| Breezy Hill | N 350° | 327 m | 7.7 mi |
| South Mountain | SSW 192° | 313 m | 8.2 mi |
| Yellow Mountain | NW 319° | 310 m | 6.8 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 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| 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 | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211336 — Taine Mountain, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359270206
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 21 mi
- Longmeadow · 26 mi
- Blandford · 29 mi
- Somers · 29 mi
- Tolland · 29 mi
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