Deans Mill Farm Preserve
Deans Mill Farm Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Prentice Mountain stands 163 m to the north, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Perkins Wildlife Corridor, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 5.9 miles off.
Small White Cedar Swamp, endangered habitat. Long corridor along ledges, above reservoir and into upland woods. Mature, mixed hardwood forest with some intermittent wetlands.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Avalonia Land Conservancy
How to reach it
- 5.9 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 15.5 mi off the Shannock Road
- 16.8 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.5 mi off the Ministerial Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Perkins Wildlife Corridor: 0.3 mi
- Pequotsepos Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Woodlot Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Pequotsepos Brook Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Town Open Space (Jerry Browne Road): 0.9 mi
- Denison Homestead: 0.6 mi
- Mystic Little League Field: 1.3 mi
- Mystic River Boathouse Park: 1.5 mi
- Mystic River Boat Launch: 1.6 mi
- River Road Park: 1.7 mi
- Mystic Seaport Museum First Building: 1.5 mi
- Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan: 1.5 mi
- Master Shipbuilders: 1.6 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Borough Hall: 2.9 mi
- Quoketaug Hill: 1.8 mi
- Pequot Hill: 2.2 mi
- Pine Hill: 2.7 mi
- Wequetequock Hill: 3.3 mi
- Merritt Hill: 3.5 mi
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 0.7 mi
- Denison Homestead: 0.7 mi
- Thompson Exhibition Building: 1.5 mi
- Children's Museum: 1.5 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 1.6 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 1.6 mi
- Williams Beach: 2.0 mi
- DuBois Beach: 3.2 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 3.7 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 3.9 mi
- Penguin: 0.9 mi
- Mjolnir: 1.1 mi
- Giant Gnome: 1.1 mi
- Mystic Blue: 1.5 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 2.1 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 1.2 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 2.0 mi
- Watch Hill Carousel: 5.8 mi
- This Old House Westerly House: 6.4 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 7.0 mi
- Cascade: 4.3 mi
- Cascade: 4.5 mi
- Yantic Falls: 13.9 mi
- Silver Falls: 15.0 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 19.1 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 6.4 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 8.6 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 8.7 mi
- Sprout Garden: 9.0 mi
- Azalea Garden: 9.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 6.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 6.0 mi
- Oil Shed: 6.0 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 6.0 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 22.3 mi
- Crow Head: 21.3 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 21.5 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 21.7 mi
- Clay Head: 22.4 mi
- Mohegan Bluffs: 24.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 1.8 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 11.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 9.5 mi
- Powder House: 9.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 14.0 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 14.1 mi
- Old Spring: 4.4 mi
- Factory Pond: 17.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Deans Mill Farm Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prentice Mountain | N 359° | 163 m | 8.9 mi |
| Chapman Hill | NNE 24° | 158 m | 9.5 mi |
| Barns Hill | N 6° | 155 m | 8.7 mi |
| Stewart Hill | NNE 20° | 149 m | 8.0 mi |
| Ayer Hill | N 352° | 144 m | 8.0 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | N 5° | 139 m | 6.4 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | NNE 14° | 139 m | 7.3 mi |
| Swantown Hill | N 5° | 132 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/538554662
Day trips start here
- Mystic · 2 mi
- Stonington · 2 mi
- Groton · 5 mi
- Ledyard · 6 mi
- North Stonington · 6 mi
- Watch Hill · 6 mi
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