Barn Island Hunting Area
Barn Island Hunting Area is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 0 m. Prentice Mountain stands 163 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Barn Island Boat Launch, a park 0.7 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 5.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 0 m
How to reach it
- 5.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 13.1 mi off the Shannock Road
- 16.2 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 19.6 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Barn Island Boat Launch: 0.7 mi
- Spellman Park: 1.4 mi
- Wadawanuck Square (Borough Open Space): 2.2 mi
- Kimball Park: 2.2 mi
- Cannon Square: 2.3 mi
- Staunton Hill: 0.9 mi
- Wequetequock Hill: 1.0 mi
- Pawcatuck Rock: 1.8 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.5 mi
- Bear Hill: 2.5 mi
- Borough Hall: 2.2 mi
- Jonathan Foster Ground: 2.2 mi
- Cannon Square: 2.3 mi
- 1814 Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Babcock-Smith House Museum: 3.0 mi
- Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House: 2.2 mi
- Old Lighthouse Museum: 2.3 mi
- Westerly Armory: 3.3 mi
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 4.4 mi
- Denison Homestead: 4.4 mi
- DuBois Beach: 2.4 mi
- Ocean House Beach: 2.5 mi
- Williams Beach: 4.9 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 5.3 mi
- Nauyaug Coast: 5.6 mi
- Ninigret Statue: 2.4 mi
- Penguin: 4.9 mi
- Mjolnir: 5.1 mi
- Giant Gnome: 5.1 mi
- Mystic Blue: 5.3 mi
- This Old House Westerly House: 2.4 mi
- Watch Hill Carousel: 2.4 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 3.2 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 3.5 mi
- Hellcat Propeller: 10.6 mi
- Grow and Go Seek Community Garden: 3.6 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 12.4 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 12.5 mi
- Sprout Garden: 12.8 mi
- Azalea Garden: 12.9 mi
- Cascade: 7.9 mi
- Cascade: 8.1 mi
- Yantic Falls: 17.5 mi
- Silver Falls: 18.9 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 19.3 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 2.8 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 2.8 mi
- Oil Shed: 2.8 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 2.8 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 20.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 5.7 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 15.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 17.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 18.0 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 10.5 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 10.6 mi
- Powder House: 13.1 mi
- Skate Hut: 13.1 mi
- Clay Head: 18.4 mi
- Mohegan Bluffs: 20.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Ledge: 21.7 mi
- Crow Head: 22.0 mi
- Old Spring: 8.2 mi
- Factory Pond: 14.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Barn Island Hunting Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prentice Mountain | NNW 341° | 163 m | 11.2 mi |
| Chapman Hill | N 1° | 158 m | 10.3 mi |
| Barns Hill | NNW 346° | 155 m | 10.7 mi |
| Pendleton Hill | N 6° | 153 m | 11.0 mi |
| Stewart Hill | N 355° | 149 m | 9.3 mi |
| Ayer Hill | NNW 334° | 144 m | 10.7 mi |
| Wintechog Hill | NNW 339° | 139 m | 8.6 mi |
| Cossaduck Hill | NNW 348° | 139 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:23 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:43 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:10 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:37 | 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 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 74 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westerly State AP, 3 mi away.
- Osprey89 obs
- Seaside Dragonlet54 obs
- Greater Yellowlegs42 obs
- Monarch36 obs
- American Herring Gull31 obs
- Great Blue Heron28 obs
- groundsel tree28 obs
- Great Egret28 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 node/359259840
Day trips start here
- Watch Hill · 2 mi
- Stonington · 3 mi
- Westerly · 3 mi
- Mystic · 5 mi
- Ashaway · 7 mi
- North Stonington · 7 mi
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