Fort Wellington National Historic Site
Fort Wellington National Historic Site is a park, at a modelled elevation of 90 m. Waterman Hill stands 214 m to the east-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Prescott Cenotaph, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 1.2 miles off. 5 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
- 2.3 mi off the Black River Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Prescott Cenotaph: 0.1 mi
- Fort Wellington Hospital: 0.2 mi
- Prescott Barracks and Hospital: 0.2 mi
- Major James Morrow Walsh: 0.2 mi
- Lieutenant William Frederick Nelson Sharpe: 0.3 mi
- Riverwalk park: 0.3 mi
- Fairways Park: 0.4 mi
- Sarah Spencer park: 0.6 mi
- Centennial Park: 0.8 mi
- Morissette Park: 1.1 mi
- Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 10.1 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 10.7 mi
- De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 11.0 mi
- Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 14.7 mi
- Two Creeks Forest Conservation Area: 15.3 mi
- Prescott Railway Station: 0.8 mi
- Frederick Remington Art Museum: 1.3 mi
- Homewood Museum: 5.5 mi
- Fulford Place: 11.3 mi
- Aquatarium: 12.1 mi
- Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site: 1.2 mi
- The Blue Church: 3.4 mi
- Brockville Underwater Sculpture Park: 11.8 mi
- Escape Brockville: 12.0 mi
- Brockville Railway Tunnel: 12.0 mi
- Point Iroquois: 12.5 mi
- Heathers Point: 13.8 mi
- Fulford Point: 16.7 mi
- Rapide Plat Point: 17.2 mi
- Hudson's Point: 17.3 mi
- Lisbon Beach: 7.9 mi
- Iroquois Beach: 13.4 mi
- Waddington Beach: 16.3 mi
- Taylor Park Beach: 19.6 mi
- Morrisburg Beach: 20.8 mi
- Mount Lona: 10.5 mi
- Barter Hill: 10.5 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 17.2 mi
- Waterman Hill: 23.7 mi
- Nichols Hill: 24.1 mi
- Women's Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Birth: 19.0 mi
- Mill Stones: 19.0 mi
- Cluster of Four Cubes: 19.1 mi
- Permaculture Garden: 18.9 mi
- Lion's Club Picnic Shelter: 20.4 mi
- Hart's Falls: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Wellington National Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterman Hill | ESE 121° | 214 m | 23.7 mi |
| Huckleberry Mountain | S 174° | 163 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mount Lona | SE 144° | 137 m | 10.5 mi |
| Barter Hill | SSE 159° | 121 m | 10.5 mi |
| Nichols Hill | NE 55° | 77 m | 24.1 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, 3 mi away.
- Common Merganser37 obs
- Mallard34 obs
- Ring-billed Gull30 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant30 obs
- Common Goldeneye21 obs
- Red-breasted Merganser21 obs
- Osprey12 obs
- Eastern Cottontail11 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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