Fort Mountain
Fort Mountain rises to 198 m in Connecticut. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west-northwest, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunny Valley Farm, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 25 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807941, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 198 m
How to reach it
- 25.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunny Valley Farm: 0.5 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.7 mi
- Guarding Mountain Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Town Open Space: 1.5 mi
- Pratt Valley Prese. (Ct Audubon Society) 2 Parcels: 2.2 mi
- Guarding Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Fort Hill: 1.0 mi
- Green Pond Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Candlewood Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Great Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.6 mi
- Willow Springs Playground: 1.4 mi
- Youngs Field: 1.5 mi
- Ray Ramsey Park: 1.6 mi
- Addis Park: 1.6 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 3.7 mi
- Jim Hulton: 4.3 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 8.1 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 8.7 mi
- Mill Ruins: 8.9 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 1.9 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 2.0 mi
- Northrop House: 3.4 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 6.7 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 8.1 mi
- Personal Gardens: 8.7 mi
- Judea Garden: 9.9 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 11.8 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 12.6 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 12.6 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 4.3 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.1 mi
- Upper Falls: 6.2 mi
- New Preston Falls: 8.9 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 12.4 mi
- New Milford Tank: 1.7 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 5.2 mi
- Indian village: 6.7 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 8.5 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 12.7 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 2.7 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 3.0 mi
- Pine Ledge: 3.5 mi
- North Beach: 5.5 mi
- South Beach: 6.0 mi
- Kelly Slide: 1.6 mi
- Lovers Leap: 2.2 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 9.1 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.2 mi
- Grand Staircase: 11.7 mi
- Jean Widmark: 8.7 mi
- Lesser Evil: 10.2 mi
- greek letter pi: 10.2 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 13.2 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 18.4 mi
- Oak Grove: 19.8 mi
- Pond View: 19.9 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 19.9 mi
- Cedar Grove: 20.0 mi
- Picnic Grove: 21.0 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 12.7 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 14.8 mi
- Dudley Town: 17.6 mi
- Dicktown: 18.5 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 8.7 mi
- The Silver Spring: 21.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.7 miles of Fort Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | WNW 289° | 405 m | 5.7 mi |
| Bear Hill | NNE 16° | 390 m | 6.9 mi |
| Birch Hill | WSW 246° | 386 m | 6.8 mi |
| Cranberry Mountain | WSW 239° | 376 m | 7.6 mi |
| Branch Hill | W 278° | 370 m | 4.9 mi |
| Seeley Hill | WNW 293° | 368 m | 5.9 mi |
| Turner Mountain | WNW 290° | 362 m | 4.5 mi |
| Peet Hill | N 2° | 359 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359263256
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 19 mi
- Cold Spring · 29 mi
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