Iron Mountain Preserve
Iron Mountain Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 282 m. Above All stands 450 m to the east-northeast, 4.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Ore Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Kent Land Trust
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ore Hill: 0.4 mi
- Flat Rock: 0.6 mi
- Treasure Hill: 1.0 mi
- Geer Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Peet Hill: 1.5 mi
- Alice McCallister Memorial Sanctuary: 1.8 mi
- Emery Park: 2.0 mi
- Kahn Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Nostrand Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Lake Waramaug State Park: 2.6 mi
- Kent Commons Park: 3.0 mi
- Kent Green: 3.1 mi
- Lake Waramaug Boat Ramp (Town of Washington): 4.2 mi
- Warren Town Beach: 4.2 mi
- Charlie Jones Veterans Memorial Park: 4.3 mi
- Mill Ruins: 4.1 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 4.6 mi
- Jim Hulton: 5.5 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 7.3 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 11.9 mi
- Cascades: 3.9 mi
- New Preston Falls: 4.1 mi
- Kent Falls: 5.5 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 9.9 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 11.9 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 3.6 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 7.7 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 8.0 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 8.1 mi
- Northrop House: 8.9 mi
- Peter's Forge: 7.2 mi
- Indian village: 8.1 mi
- New Milford Tank: 8.3 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 8.6 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 8.9 mi
- Judea Garden: 5.1 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 14.5 mi
- Personal Gardens: 15.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 15.8 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 17.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 3.4 mi
- Grand Staircase: 3.6 mi
- Kelly Slide: 7.9 mi
- Lovers Leap: 10.8 mi
- Bethel Rock: 16.0 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 9.1 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 9.4 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 10.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 12.0 mi
- Jean Widmark: 12.1 mi
- Lesser Evil: 19.4 mi
- greek letter pi: 19.5 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 22.2 mi
- Ben Franklin: 22.2 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 18.2 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 18.3 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 8.7 mi
- Dicktown: 23.4 mi
- Hermit spring: 23.1 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 23.7 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 4.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.4 miles of Iron Mountain Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Above All | ENE 62° | 450 m | 4.6 mi |
| Preston Hill | WNW 282° | 442 m | 4.6 mi |
| North Preston Hill | WNW 292° | 441 m | 4.6 mi |
| Bromica Mountain | NNE 17° | 428 m | 3.5 mi |
| Mauwee Peak | N 6° | 426 m | 3.6 mi |
| Huckleberry Hill | NE 41° | 426 m | 3.9 mi |
| Chapel Pond Hill | WNW 291° | 426 m | 4.0 mi |
| Flanders Mountain | N 6° | 422 m | 4.3 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 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 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 | 25 | 28 | 36 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millbrook 3 W, 17 mi away.
- Christmas fern23 obs
- Eastern Skunk Cabbage22 obs
- garlic mustard15 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander12 obs
- Eastern Newt9 obs
- striped wintergreen9 obs
- green false hellebore8 obs
- Green Frog6 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/43442247
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 25 mi
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