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Drumlin Hill Preserve

Drumlin Hill Preserve from directly overhead

Drumlin Hill Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 60 m. Mannantuck stands 273 m to the east, 5.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Oakwood Drive Open Space, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 29 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Kongscut Land Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.71064, -72.57529
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Rotary Field: 1.0 mi
  • Addison Park: 1.4 mi
  • Glastonbury Memorial Park: 1.6 mi
  • Richard H. Ross Field: 1.6 mi
  • Hubbard Green Park: 1.7 mi
Peaks
Museums
Artworks: 60
Attractions
  • Hay Tedder: 2.6 mi
  • Nike Missile Site: 3.7 mi
  • Constitution Oak: 4.0 mi
  • Car Wreck: 4.0 mi
  • Insect Hotel: 6.6 mi
Waterfalls
  • Cascades: 3.2 mi
  • Dividend Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Cascade: 5.4 mi
  • Center Springs Falls: 5.4 mi
  • Wyllys Falls: 5.6 mi
Historic sites
Gardens: 54
Cliffs: 20
  • Crow Point: 2.2 mi
  • Flag Rock: 8.6 mi
  • South Wall: 12.2 mi
  • Solar Panel: 12.2 mi
  • Superstructure: 12.2 mi
Beaches: 9
Rest areas: 5
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 13.9 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 19.1 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 19.1 mi
  • Southington Rest Area: 19.5 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 20.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 22.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 24.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Windham Spring: 19.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Drumlin Hill Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MannantuckE 91°273 m5.3 mi
John Tom HillE 91°272 m5.3 mi
Meshomasic MountainSSE 163°265 m5.8 mi
Box HillNE 44°252 m8.9 mi
Clark HillSSE 162°241 m8.4 mi
Lookout MountainENE 56°237 m5.6 mi
Kongscut MountainESE 105°234 m3.9 mi
Birch MountainENE 61°233 m5.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1719:4720:29
September equinox06:3818:1318:49
December solstice07:1515:3916:23

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293139506170757466544334
Precip in2.92.63.53.83.43.93.93.54.04.23.43.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/949278806

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