Lambs Way Preserve
Lambs Way Preserve is a nature reserve in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 23 m. Stewart Hill stands 149 m to the north-northeast, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Knox Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 7.4 miles off.
Access from right side of curve at lower end of Lamb’s Way near Quiambaug Fire Station. Open area with view of Fishers Island Sound, wooded areas with some steep slopes. Wooded wetland in northeast corner. No trails.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Avalonia Land Conservancy
How to reach it
- 7.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 16.6 mi off the Shannock Road
- 18.4 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 20.2 mi off the Ministerial Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Knox Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Cottrell Marsh: 0.5 mi
- Knox Family Farm Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Marcia Woolworth Porter Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Mistuxet Hill Preserve (Avalonia Land Conservancy): 1.2 mi
- Willams Beach Park: 0.8 mi
- Mystic River Park Playground: 1.4 mi
- Denison Homestead: 1.4 mi
- Mystic River Park: 1.5 mi
- Mystic Little League Field: 1.6 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Master Shipbuilders: 1.6 mi
- Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan: 1.7 mi
- Mystic Seaport Museum First Building: 1.7 mi
- Borough Hall: 2.1 mi
- Pine Hill: 1.5 mi
- Pequot Hill: 2.2 mi
- Quoketaug Hill: 3.4 mi
- Fort Hill: 3.5 mi
- Wequetequock Hill: 3.8 mi
- Williams Beach: 0.8 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 1.6 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 2.0 mi
- DuBois Beach: 2.3 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 2.5 mi
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 1.3 mi
- Denison Homestead: 1.3 mi
- Mystic Museum of Art: 1.5 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 1.6 mi
- Children's Museum: 1.6 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 1.6 mi
- Mystic Blue: 1.7 mi
- Penguin: 2.1 mi
- Mjolnir: 2.1 mi
- Giant Gnome: 2.1 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 0.8 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 0.9 mi
- Watch Hill Carousel: 5.1 mi
- This Old House Westerly House: 6.3 mi
- The Whale: 7.8 mi
- Cascade: 3.9 mi
- Cascade: 4.0 mi
- Silver Falls: 15.0 mi
- Yantic Falls: 15.1 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 20.8 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 7.2 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 8.4 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 8.6 mi
- Sprout Garden: 8.9 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 8.9 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 5.2 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 5.2 mi
- Oil Shed: 5.2 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 21.4 mi
- Crow Head: 19.6 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 21.5 mi
- Clay Head: 22.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 23.3 mi
- Mohegan Bluffs: 23.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 2.3 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 12.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 20.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 20.6 mi
- Powder House: 9.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 9.1 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 14.5 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 14.7 mi
- Old Spring: 5.7 mi
- Factory Pond: 18.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Lambs Way Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart Hill | NNE 19° | 149 m | 9.8 mi |
| Ayer Hill | N 356° | 144 m | 9.6 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | N 7° | 139 m | 8.1 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | NNE 14° | 139 m | 9.0 mi |
| Swantown Hill | N 7° | 132 m | 9.1 mi |
| Church Hill | NNW 339° | 120 m | 8.3 mi |
| Lantern Hill | N 360° | 118 m | 8.0 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | NW 305° | 108 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/549227954
Day trips start here
- Mystic · 1 mi
- Stonington · 2 mi
- Groton · 4 mi
- Watch Hill · 5 mi
- Westerly · 6 mi
- North Stonington · 7 mi
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