The Tower
The Tower is a historic site, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Reservoir Hill stands 184 m to the south-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Dumbrille's Store, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 1.4 miles off. 157 named places lie within 25 miles, 9 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
How to reach it
- 1.4 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 7.3 mi off the Black River Trail
157 named places within 25 miles
- Dumbrille's Store: 0.1 mi
- The Founding of Maitland: 0.1 mi
- Lieut.-Col. Thain Wendell MacDowell: 0.1 mi
- St. James Masonic Lodge: 0.2 mi
- Pointe Au Baril: 0.3 mi
- Fulford Park: 3.8 mi
- Centeen Park: 4.3 mi
- Amargh Price Park: 4.6 mi
- Blockhouse Island: 4.7 mi
- Hardy Park: 4.9 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 6.7 mi
- Hickory Lake State Forest: 13.1 mi
- Lonesome Bay State Forest: 13.7 mi
- Dekalb Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 15.7 mi
- Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 15.7 mi
- Homewood Museum: 1.9 mi
- Fulford Place: 3.8 mi
- Aquatarium: 4.7 mi
- Brockville Museum: 4.9 mi
- Prescott Railway Station: 6.8 mi
- Barter Hill: 9.9 mi
- Mount Lona: 11.7 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 13.6 mi
- Bean Hill: 21.0 mi
- Reservoir Hill: 22.8 mi
- The Blue Church: 4.1 mi
- Brockville Underwater Sculpture Park: 4.3 mi
- Escape Brockville: 4.6 mi
- Brockville Railway Tunnel: 4.6 mi
- Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site: 8.6 mi
- Heathers Point: 6.4 mi
- Fulford Point: 9.2 mi
- Hudson's Point: 9.8 mi
- Point Iroquois: 19.9 mi
- Rapide Plat Point: 24.7 mi
- Women's Memorial: 4.8 mi
- Birth: 22.4 mi
- Mill Stones: 22.4 mi
- Cluster of Four Cubes: 22.4 mi
- Lisbon Beach: 15.2 mi
- Iroquois Beach: 20.8 mi
- Taylor Park Beach: 22.5 mi
- Waddington Beach: 23.7 mi
- Permaculture Garden: 22.3 mi
- Hart's Falls: 23.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Tower. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reservoir Hill | SSE 160° | 184 m | 22.8 mi |
| Battle Hill | SSE 153° | 183 m | 23.1 mi |
| Hand Hill | SSE 154° | 182 m | 22.9 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | SSE 149° | 163 m | 13.6 mi |
| Pulpit Rock | S 182° | 150 m | 24.5 mi |
| Hailes Hopyard | SSE 159° | 142 m | 23.7 mi |
| Mount Lona | ESE 105° | 137 m | 11.7 mi |
| Bean Hill | SSW 201° | 130 m | 21.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:36 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 20:07 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:23 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 15:37 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 17 | 19 | 29 | 43 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ogdensburg 4 NE, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/368708240
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