Tinker Hill
Tinker Hill rises to 53 m in Connecticut. South Mountain stands 357 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Briarwood Subdivision (G&P Stewart), a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 17 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808726, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 53 m
How to reach it
- 17.2 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 20.1 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- D'Aleo Park: 1.7 mi
- Enfield Town Green: 1.8 mi
- Town Of Suffield (Hill Street & Russell Av.): 2.5 mi
- Brainard Memorial Park: 2.6 mi
- Borgatti Park: 3.2 mi
- King House Museum: 2.6 mi
- Enfield Historical Society: 2.9 mi
- Longmeadow Historical Society: 3.9 mi
- New England Air Museum: 5.2 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 5.6 mi
- Freedom Eagle: 5.3 mi
- The Three Graces: 5.3 mi
- 1856 City Hall Bell: 6.7 mi
- Miles Morgan: 6.7 mi
- Birdicus Gigantium: 6.8 mi
- Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 2.3 mi
- Side Garden: 2.4 mi
- Azalea Garden: 2.4 mi
- Front Garden: 2.4 mi
- Back Garden: 2.5 mi
- Buck Hill: 1.2 mi
- Glovers Hill: 1.2 mi
- Scott Hill: 1.4 mi
- Sherman Hill: 2.0 mi
- Philo Hill: 2.1 mi
- Kotchen Quadrangle: 1.9 mi
- Suffield Academy Bell: 2.0 mi
- Veterans' Memorial: 2.2 mi
- E. Alexander Bergstrom: 2.7 mi
- Omiskanoagwiah: 5.1 mi
- New England Sky Screamer: 2.4 mi
- HU-16E "Albatross": 5.3 mi
- A-3B "Skywarrior": 5.3 mi
- C-7A "Caribou": 5.3 mi
- Springfield Museums: 7.0 mi
- Briarwood Subdivision (G&P Stewart): 0.9 mi
- Briarwood Subdivision (G&Pstewart): 1.0 mi
- Town Of Suffield (River View Drive): 1.2 mi
- Lafayette Park: 1.7 mi
- Jesse F. Smith Town Forest: 1.8 mi
- Carpenter's Falls: 12.3 mi
- Lost Acres Falls: 12.5 mi
- Northgate Falls: 13.1 mi
- Beach Brook Falls: 13.2 mi
- Enders Falls: 13.2 mi
- Indian Leap: 12.8 mi
- Flag Rock: 17.7 mi
- Hart Meadow: 17.9 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 17.9 mi
- Garden Wall: 18.0 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
- Babbs Beach: 6.5 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 13.8 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.2 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 19.0 mi
- Big Spring: 19.5 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.0 mi
- Hermit spring: 23.6 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 23.9 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 2.4 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 9.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 18.8 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 18.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 21.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Tinker Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mountain | WNW 281° | 357 m | 12.7 mi |
| Drake Mountain | WNW 302° | 350 m | 12.6 mi |
| Sodom Mountain | WNW 289° | 326 m | 11.2 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | E 81° | 323 m | 11.5 mi |
| Pine Cone | WSW 252° | 323 m | 13.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | E 96° | 322 m | 11.2 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ENE 78° | 319 m | 11.8 mi |
| Soapstone Mountain | ESE 107° | 315 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
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 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211471 — Tinker Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359270394
Day trips start here
- Longmeadow · 4 mi
- East Windsor · 7 mi
- Somers · 10 mi
- Hampden · 12 mi
- Holyoke · 13 mi
- Ludlow · 13 mi
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