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Kummer Farm Preserve

Kummer Farm Preserve from directly overhead

Kummer Farm Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 100 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the west, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Skinner Park, a park 1.0 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Berlin Land Trust
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.65025, -72.81576
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Waterfalls
  • Intermittent Cascade: 1.0 mi
  • Mill Pond Falls: 5.3 mi
  • Cascades: 5.9 mi
  • Westfield Falls: 7.1 mi
  • Freeman Hill Brook Falls: 9.1 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Museums
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Hospital Rock: 2.9 mi
  • Will Warren's Den: 3.5 mi
  • Libby's Lump: 6.3 mi
  • 1954: 7.9 mi
  • Carousel: 8.3 mi
Gardens
Artworks: 52
Cliffs: 20
  • Green Wall: 3.6 mi
  • Porcupine Hole: 3.7 mi
  • South Wall: 8.1 mi
  • Solar Panel: 8.1 mi
  • Superstructure: 8.1 mi
Beaches: 8
Springs: 5
  • Hermit spring: 19.5 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 21.1 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 22.7 mi
  • Cold Spring: 22.9 mi
  • Big Spring: 23.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Southington Rest Area: 7.1 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 7.6 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 13.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Picnic Grove: 11.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Kummer Farm Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainW 269°313 m6.8 mi
Lindsley HillWSW 256°312 m8.0 mi
West PeakSSW 193°301 m6.2 mi
Becar HillWSW 257°297 m9.1 mi
Mount HopeWNW 299°297 m9.2 mi
Compounce MountainW 259°290 m6.5 mi
Fall MountainW 268°284 m9.0 mi
Southington MountainWSW 243°281 m7.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2719:04
June solstice05:1819:4820:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1615:4016:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 10 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/981877390

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