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North Preston Hill, Connecticut

Prominence: 877 ft, 267 m

Elevation: 1447 feet, 441 meters

True Isolation: 6.21 mi, 9.99 km

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 1446 ft / 441 m
Local or Alternate Name(s)	Alternate: Chapel Pond West
Peak Type	Unofficially Named Peak
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	41° 43' 15'' N, 73° 30' 48'' W 41.720966, -73.513254 (Dec Deg) 623667 E 4619864 N, Zone 18 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Connecticut
County/Second Level Region	Litchfield
City/Town	Kent (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "North Preston Hill": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Peak 1455 at ListsOfJohn.com Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain North Preston Hill: Most Prominent Peaks of the U.S. States (Rank #38) EPIC List - States of the USA (Rank #72) The USA Second Lap List (Rank #42) Connecticut County Prominence Peaks (Rank #1)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 34 Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 31) Selected Trip Reports: 2010-08-13 by Michael Schwartz 2011-06-19 by Ben Lostracco 2011-08-24 by Edward Earl 2011-12-29 by Chris Gilsdorf 2012-04-27 by Jean André Laverdure 2012-09-25 by David Darby (GPS Track) 2015-04-22 by Micah Schneider 2016-12-15 by Arthur Caverly (GPS Track) 2020-02-15 by Scott MacQuarrie 2020-10-07 by Dylan Fowler (GPS Track) 2021-03-12 by Timothy Hutchings (GPS Track) 2021-08-29 by Steven Fishback (GPS Track) 2021-11-01 by Harvey Sal 2022-01-01 by Jason Rossman (GPS Track) 2022-01-25 by Greg Slayden (GPS Track)
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North Preston Hill is the most prominent mountain in Connecticut by topographic prominence. This obscure summit is just east of the state line with New York, in the Taconic uplands.

After all these years Andy's pop/steel can register still lives. Sure it's a little rusty but aren't we all? (2016-05-14). Photo by Jobe Wymore. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page (Detailed prominence information) Clean Prominence: 877 ft/267 m Optimistic Prominence: 887 ft/270 m Line Parent: Sharon Mountain Key Col: 570 ft/174 m
Isolation	Isolation Page (Detailed isolation information) Distance: 6.21 mi/9.99 km Isolation Limit Point: 41.8, -73.4558 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database: Ellsworth Hill (NNE)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Appalachian Mountains Range3: Northern U.S. Appalachians Range4: Taconic Range Range5: Southern Taconic Range
Drainage Basins	Housatonic Long Island Sound Atlantic-Eastern USA Atlantic Ocean
Topo Map	Dover Plains O41073f5 1:24,000
Data Source	GPS Reading or LIDAR This peak was submitted to the Peakbagger.com database by Edward Earl.
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