Fort Hill
Fort Hill rises to 160 m in Connecticut. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Guarding Mountain Preserve, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 26 miles off.
The story
mountain in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31807937, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 160 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Guarding Mountain Preserve: 0.1 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.8 mi
- Sunny Valley Farm: 0.9 mi
- Town Open Space: 1.7 mi
- Pratt Valley Prese. (Ct Audubon Society) 2 Parcels: 2.2 mi
- Guarding Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Fort Mountain: 1.0 mi
- Aspetuck Hill: 1.5 mi
- Candlewood Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Town Hill: 1.5 mi
- Youngs Field: 0.6 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.7 mi
- Ray Ramsey Park: 0.7 mi
- New Milford Center Historic District: 1.0 mi
- Little League Field: 1.2 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 3.7 mi
- Jim Hulton: 3.8 mi
- Thomas Robert Lilly: 7.4 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 7.6 mi
- Mill Ruins: 8.0 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 1.0 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 2.6 mi
- Northrop House: 3.8 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 5.8 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 7.2 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 5.1 mi
- Lower Falls: 7.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 7.1 mi
- New Preston Falls: 8.0 mi
- Cascades: 9.1 mi
- Judea Garden: 8.9 mi
- Personal Gardens: 9.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 11.4 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 13.4 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 13.4 mi
- New Milford Tank: 0.8 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 4.8 mi
- Indian village: 5.9 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 9.4 mi
- Peter's Forge: 12.0 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 3.2 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 3.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 4.5 mi
- North Beach: 6.4 mi
- South Beach: 6.9 mi
- Kelly Slide: 1.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 2.5 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 9.8 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.6 mi
- Grand Staircase: 11.1 mi
- Jean Widmark: 8.1 mi
- Lesser Evil: 10.9 mi
- greek letter pi: 11.1 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 13.9 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 19.0 mi
- Oak Grove: 20.2 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.2 mi
- Pond View: 20.3 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 20.3 mi
- Cedar Grove: 20.4 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 13.6 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- Dudley Town: 16.7 mi
- Dicktown: 19.3 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 8.3 mi
- The Silver Spring: 22.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of Fort Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | W 280° | 405 m | 6.0 mi |
| Bear Hill | NNE 13° | 390 m | 6.0 mi |
| Birch Hill | WSW 243° | 386 m | 7.6 mi |
| Branch Hill | W 269° | 370 m | 5.4 mi |
| Seeley Hill | WNW 284° | 368 m | 6.2 mi |
| Turner Mountain | W 279° | 362 m | 4.9 mi |
| Peet Hill | N 358° | 359 m | 7.0 mi |
| Beaver Bog Mountain | SW 222° | 358 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:43 | 16:27 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Danbury, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359263213
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 19 mi
- Cold Spring · 29 mi
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