Fox Hollow Preserve
Fox Hollow Preserve is a nature reserve in New York, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. Reynolds Hill stands 180 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Cordelia Hepburn Cushman Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 42 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- North Shore Land Alliance
How to reach it
- 16.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 19.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 23.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cordelia Hepburn Cushman Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Red Cote Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Davenport Preserve: 0.5 mi
- St. John's Pond Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Schiff Preserve: 1.5 mi
- ATCG Tower: 1.1 mi
- Oyster Bay Railroad Station Turntable: 2.8 mi
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium: 7.3 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 11.7 mi
- Jamaica: 11.8 mi
- Dance of the Polypeptides: 1.1 mi
- Charles Darwin: 1.2 mi
- St. Mary and Jesus: 1.6 mi
- St. Joseph and Jesus: 1.7 mi
- St. Mary: 1.7 mi
- Stillwell Woods Park: 1.2 mi
- Calvert Field: 1.2 mi
- School House Lane Park: 1.5 mi
- Cold Spring-Crocus Park S-1: 1.6 mi
- Oregon Park S-2: 1.6 mi
- Cold Spring Beach: 1.5 mi
- Eagle Dock Beach: 1.9 mi
- Beekman Beach: 3.4 mi
- West Neck Beach: 3.6 mi
- Lloyd Beach: 4.2 mi
- Saw Mill Hill: 1.6 mi
- Pope John Paul II: 1.7 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt: 1.8 mi
- Youngs Home: 1.8 mi
- Eva and Larry Paul: 1.8 mi
- Fire House Museum: 2.0 mi
- Preservation Long Islannd: 2.1 mi
- The Whaling Museum & Education Center: 2.3 mi
- Old Orchard: 2.6 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.6 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 2.5 mi
- West Hills: 3.6 mi
- Mill Neck Peak: 3.7 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 3.9 mi
- Jayne's Hill: 4.0 mi
- Organic Demonstration Site #1: 2.6 mi
- Pine Hollow Cemetery Perennial Garden: 2.7 mi
- Colonial Garden: 2.9 mi
- Victorian Garden: 2.9 mi
- Brooke Jackman Memorial Reading Garden: 3.1 mi
- Lower Education Area: 1.8 mi
- Upper Education Area: 1.8 mi
- Picnic Area C: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Area A & B: 2.7 mi
- Birches: 9.4 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 6.1 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 6.3 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 4.2 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 8.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 11.7 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 11.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.8 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 9.4 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 18.7 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 18.7 mi
- The Falls: 18.7 mi
- Farms Falls: 20.2 mi
- Cuties Island: 12.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Fox Hollow Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reynolds Hill | NW 320° | 180 m | 23.0 mi |
| Round Hill | NNW 331° | 172 m | 20.1 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NW 324° | 170 m | 21.6 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NW 317° | 156 m | 20.7 mi |
| Huckleberry Hills | N 1° | 141 m | 23.6 mi |
| Canoe Hill | N 1° | 140 m | 21.8 mi |
| Beaver Hill | NW 310° | 140 m | 23.3 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | SE 127° | 122 m | 4.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:46 | 16:30 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 39 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centerport, 6 mi away.
- mountain laurel75 obs
- Nassaquatuck Seapill57 obs
- garlic mustard55 obs
- sassafras45 obs
- Groundhog42 obs
- lesser periwinkle42 obs
- eastern white pine41 obs
- lesser celandine39 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/965314179
Day trips start here
- Oyster Bay · 3 mi
- Bayville · 5 mi
- South Oyster Bay · 6 mi
- Glen Cove · 8 mi
- Nassau County · 9 mi
- Roslyn · 9 mi
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