Guarding Mountain
Guarding Mountain rises to 179 m in Connecticut. Observatory Hill stands 405 m to the west-northwest, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Lynn Deming Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31808006, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 179 m
How to reach it
- 25.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.1 mi
- Little League Field: 1.2 mi
- Youngs Field: 1.2 mi
- Ray Ramsey Park: 1.3 mi
- New Milford Center Historic District: 1.6 mi
- Lynn Deming Park: 0.2 mi
- Guarding Mountain Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Sunny Valley Farm: 0.9 mi
- Town Open Space: 1.9 mi
- Hubbell Mountain Farm: 2.2 mi
- Fort Hill: 0.6 mi
- Fort Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Candlewood Mountain: 1.1 mi
- Green Pond Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Pine Knob: 1.6 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 3.3 mi
- Jim Hulton: 3.7 mi
- Natalie Todd Lilly: 8.2 mi
- Mill Ruins: 8.4 mi
- Miller Family Preserve: 8.8 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 1.5 mi
- HarryBrooke Park Museum: 2.6 mi
- Northrop House: 3.2 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 6.4 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 7.7 mi
- Personal Gardens: 8.9 mi
- Judea Garden: 9.4 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 12.0 mi
- Children's Garden at Tarrywille Park: 13.2 mi
- Butterfly Maze: 13.2 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 4.5 mi
- Lower Falls: 6.5 mi
- Upper Falls: 6.5 mi
- New Preston Falls: 8.4 mi
- East Meadow Brook Falls: 12.4 mi
- New Milford Tank: 1.4 mi
- Mine Hill National Historic Landmark: 5.3 mi
- Indian village: 6.4 mi
- Watchtower Educational Center: 8.8 mi
- Peter's Forge: 12.5 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 2.6 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 2.9 mi
- Pine Ledge: 3.9 mi
- North Beach: 6.1 mi
- South Beach: 6.6 mi
- Kelly Slide: 1.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 2.7 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 9.7 mi
- Pine Ledge: 10.6 mi
- Grand Staircase: 11.1 mi
- Jean Widmark: 8.7 mi
- Lesser Evil: 10.8 mi
- greek letter pi: 10.8 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 13.8 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 19.0 mi
- Oak Grove: 20.3 mi
- Pond View: 20.4 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 20.5 mi
- Cedar Grove: 20.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.8 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 13.3 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- Dudley Town: 17.0 mi
- Dicktown: 18.7 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 8.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 22.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.5 miles of Guarding Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Hill | WNW 283° | 405 m | 5.5 mi |
| Bear Hill | NNE 18° | 390 m | 6.4 mi |
| Birch Hill | WSW 242° | 386 m | 7.1 mi |
| Branch Hill | W 271° | 370 m | 4.8 mi |
| Seeley Hill | WNW 287° | 368 m | 5.7 mi |
| Turner Mountain | WNW 282° | 362 m | 4.3 mi |
| Peet Hill | N 2° | 359 m | 7.1 mi |
| Beaver Bog Mountain | SW 220° | 358 m | 6.4 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, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359263949
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 19 mi
- Cold Spring · 29 mi
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