Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site
Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Waterman Hill stands 214 m to the east-southeast, 23 miles off. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 1.2 miles off. 6 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Parks Canada
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
- 2.5 mi off the Black River Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Battle of the Windmill: 0.0 mi
- Prescott Cenotaph: 1.3 mi
- Fort Wellington Hospital: 1.4 mi
- Prescott Barracks and Hospital: 1.4 mi
- Major James Morrow Walsh: 1.4 mi
- Fort Wellington National Historic Site: 1.2 mi
- Fairways Park: 1.2 mi
- Sarah Spencer park: 1.4 mi
- Morissette Park: 1.5 mi
- Riverwalk park: 1.5 mi
- Frederick Remington Art Museum: 1.6 mi
- Prescott Railway Station: 2.0 mi
- Homewood Museum: 6.7 mi
- Carman House Museum: 11.7 mi
- Fulford Place: 12.4 mi
- Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 9.2 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 11.4 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 11.7 mi
- Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 13.7 mi
- Two Creeks Forest Conservation Area: 14.2 mi
- Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site: 0.0 mi
- The Blue Church: 4.6 mi
- Brockville Underwater Sculpture Park: 12.9 mi
- Escape Brockville: 13.2 mi
- Brockville Railway Tunnel: 13.2 mi
- Mount Lona: 10.4 mi
- Barter Hill: 10.7 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 17.7 mi
- Nichols Hill: 22.9 mi
- Waterman Hill: 23.1 mi
- Point Iroquois: 11.3 mi
- Heathers Point: 15.0 mi
- Rapide Plat Point: 16.1 mi
- Fulford Point: 17.8 mi
- Hudson's Point: 18.4 mi
- Lisbon Beach: 6.7 mi
- Iroquois Beach: 12.2 mi
- Waddington Beach: 15.1 mi
- Taylor Park Beach: 19.0 mi
- Morrisburg Beach: 19.6 mi
- Women's Memorial: 13.4 mi
- Birth: 18.3 mi
- Mill Stones: 18.3 mi
- Cluster of Four Cubes: 18.4 mi
- Permaculture Garden: 18.3 mi
- Lion's Club Picnic Shelter: 19.2 mi
- Hart's Falls: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterman Hill | ESE 124° | 214 m | 23.1 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | S 178° | 163 m | 17.7 mi |
| Mount Lona | SSE 151° | 137 m | 10.4 mi |
| Barter Hill | SSE 166° | 121 m | 10.7 mi |
| Wilbur Hill | E 82° | 120 m | 24.6 mi |
| Nichols Hill | NE 55° | 77 m | 22.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:36 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 20:07 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:23 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 15:36 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/Toronto).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 17 | 19 | 29 | 43 | 56 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 61 | 49 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ogdensburg 4 NE, 2 mi away.
- Mallard23 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant22 obs
- Common Merganser14 obs
- Ring-billed Gull13 obs
- Common Goldeneye12 obs
- American Robin9 obs
- Eastern Cottontail9 obs
- viper's-bugloss8 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.
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