Golden Harvest Preserve
Golden Harvest Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 99 m. Painter Hill stands 324 m to the north-northeast, 4.6 miles off. The nearest named place is River Road Preserve, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 22 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Roxbury Land Trust
How to reach it
- 21.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- River Road Preserve: 0.1 mi
- Horrigan Family Preserve: 0.4 mi
- McMahan Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Fulkerson Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Erbacher Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Hurlburt Park: 1.0 mi
- Hodge Park: 1.8 mi
- Clatter Valley Park: 3.7 mi
- Lake Lillinonah Boat Launch: 4.1 mi
- Addis Park: 4.5 mi
- Bulkeley Hill: 1.1 mi
- Botsford Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hut Hill: 2.0 mi
- Booth Hill: 2.4 mi
- Second Hill: 2.6 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 2.6 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 2.8 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Soldiers’ Monument: 6.0 mi
- In Memory of George Washington: 6.2 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 4.8 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 5.0 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 5.5 mi
- Glebe House Museum: 5.8 mi
- Old Town Hall Museum: 6.0 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 6.9 mi
- Nonnewaug Falls: 9.5 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 9.7 mi
- New Preston Falls: 9.7 mi
- Southford Falls: 9.8 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 5.8 mi
- Judea Garden: 10.1 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 12.7 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 12.7 mi
- Melanie Rieger Victims of Violent Crimes Memorial Garden: 12.9 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 1.8 mi
- Indian village: 5.1 mi
- New Milford Tank: 5.3 mi
- Bethlehem Green Historic District: 9.2 mi
- Bellamy-Ferriday Garden: 9.3 mi
- Jean Widmark: 3.6 mi
- Lesser Evil: 9.9 mi
- greek letter pi: 10.9 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 12.4 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 14.4 mi
- North Beach: 8.0 mi
- South Beach: 8.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 8.6 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 8.8 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 9.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.3 mi
- Bethel Rock: 6.2 mi
- Kelly Slide: 7.3 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 8.8 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 14.1 mi
- Pond View: 15.9 mi
- Oak Grove: 15.9 mi
- Picnic Grove: 15.9 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 16.0 mi
- Cedar Grove: 16.2 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 14.5 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 22.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 18.8 mi
- Dicktown: 23.8 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 13.6 mi
- The Silver Spring: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.6 miles of Golden Harvest Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painter Hill | NNE 22° | 324 m | 4.6 mi |
| Lower Church Hill | N 351° | 324 m | 6.6 mi |
| Green Pond Mountain | W 279° | 323 m | 6.9 mi |
| Plumb Hill | NNE 14° | 322 m | 6.3 mi |
| Great Mountain | W 272° | 310 m | 6.7 mi |
| Fenn Hill | N 352° | 303 m | 7.0 mi |
| Mount Tom | NW 324° | 300 m | 7.4 mi |
| Bell Hill | NNE 12° | 299 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:42 | 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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1199616732
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 23 mi
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