Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden
Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 236 m. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Peter Plaza, a park 0.1 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 1.0 miles off.
Small cultivated garden centered on a memorial. Small stream runs through it and there is a picturesque footbridge across the stream.
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 13.7 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 2 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peter Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Dryden Road Park: 0.3 mi
- Maplewood Park: 0.5 mi
- Treman Triangle Park: 0.5 mi
- Bryant Park: 0.6 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 0.7 mi
- Hungerford Hill: 2.2 mi
- Turkey Hill: 3.3 mi
- Snyder Hill: 4.7 mi
- Bean Hill: 5.0 mi
- Cascadilla Gorge: 0.2 mi
- Pine Tree Wildlife Preserve: 1.8 mi
- East Ithaca Nature Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Reynolds Game Farm: 2.0 mi
- South Hill Natural Area West: 2.2 mi
- Rocky Falls: 0.4 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 0.4 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 0.5 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 0.6 mi
- Potter's Falls: 2.3 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 3.1 mi
- Incodema: 4.4 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 4.5 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 5.4 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 6.0 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 0.8 mi
- Sciencenter: 1.0 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 2.9 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 6.2 mi
- Field School House: 6.4 mi
- Farrand Garden: 0.2 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 0.2 mi
- Minn's Garden: 0.4 mi
- Deans Garden: 0.5 mi
- Student Centennial Garden: 0.5 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 0.2 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 0.2 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 6.4 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 7.9 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 16.5 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 2.9 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 11.2 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 20.8 mi
- Castle Point: 23.7 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 1.1 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 3.7 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 9.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Alpha Phi Alpha memorial garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | E 79° | 643 m | 17.9 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 246° | 638 m | 10.3 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 78° | 637 m | 17.4 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 77° | 635 m | 17.3 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | E 90° | 612 m | 10.1 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 216° | 599 m | 14.8 mi |
| Hammond Hill | E 95° | 598 m | 9.7 mi |
| Doll Hill | SW 229° | 596 m | 10.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 16:37 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca Cornell Univ, 2 mi away.
- Spotted Salamander729 obs
- American Robin700 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel573 obs
- Canada Goose548 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee498 obs
- Common Garter Snake493 obs
- White-tailed Deer492 obs
- purple loosestrife488 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/468549145
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 1 mi
- Trumansburg · 11 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 16 mi
- Cortland · 19 mi
- Watkins Glen · 20 mi
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