Towner Hill
Towner Hill rises to 274 m in Connecticut. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west, 3.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Towner Hill Preserve, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 27 miles off.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808752, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 274 m
How to reach it
- 27.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Towner Hill Preserve: 0.1 mi
- Irene's Woods Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Brookland and Josephson Preserves: 1.3 mi
- Hubbell Mountain Farm: 1.4 mi
- Mallory Preserve: 1.5 mi
- Barnes Hill: 0.8 mi
- Pine Knob: 1.0 mi
- Stillson Hill: 1.1 mi
- Candlewood Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Hubbell Hill: 1.3 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 1.1 mi
- Jim Hulton: 2.4 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 7.2 mi
- Mill Ruins: 8.8 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 10.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 1.1 mi
- Colonial Park: 1.4 mi
- Sherman Town Park: 1.4 mi
- Sega Meadows Park: 1.5 mi
- Little League Field: 1.9 mi
- Northrop House: 1.3 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 3.4 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 4.7 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 8.0 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 9.1 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 4.1 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 6.1 mi
- Cascades: 7.3 mi
- New Preston Falls: 8.8 mi
- Personal Gardens: 8.0 mi
- Judea Garden: 9.9 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 14.2 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 14.3 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 14.3 mi
- New Milford Tank: 3.5 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 7.5 mi
- Indian village: 8.0 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 8.1 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 12.0 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 1.3 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 1.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 4.1 mi
- North Beach: 7.2 mi
- South Beach: 7.7 mi
- Kelly Slide: 1.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 9.1 mi
- Grand Staircase: 9.7 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 11.2 mi
- Jean Widmark: 10.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 12.0 mi
- Lesser Evil: 12.2 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 15.2 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 20.7 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 22.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 22.3 mi
- Pond View: 22.5 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 22.5 mi
- Cedar Grove: 22.6 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 13.0 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 13.0 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 13.9 mi
- Dudley Town: 16.6 mi
- Dicktown: 17.2 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 6.4 mi
- The Silver Spring: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Towner Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | W 272° | 405 m | 3.4 mi |
| Schaghticoke Mountain | NNW 341° | 404 m | 7.2 mi |
| Bear Hill | NE 39° | 390 m | 6.3 mi |
| Birch Hill | SW 223° | 386 m | 6.1 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | SW 218° | 376 m | 7.3 mi |
| Branch Hill | WSW 250° | 370 m | 3.0 mi |
| Seeley Hill | W 279° | 368 m | 3.5 mi |
| Turner Mountain | W 265° | 362 m | 2.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
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 | 28 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 65 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 50 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carmel 4N, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211540 — Towner Hill, Western Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359270590
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 18 mi
- Cold Spring · 27 mi
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