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Arboretum

Arboretum from directly overhead

Arboretum is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 107 m. Black Spruce Mountain stands 716 m to the northwest, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Meadowbrook Preserve, a park 0.9 miles away. Central Adirondack Trail passes 1.6 miles off.

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What to expect

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Getting there

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Coordinates43.35459, -73.65587

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Meadowbrook Preserve: 0.9 mi
  • Glen Lake Boat Launch: 1.4 mi
  • Hovey Pond Park: 1.8 mi
  • Crandall Park: 2.4 mi
  • Sagamore Street Park: 2.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Elk's Preserve: 1.3 mi
  • Sullivan Preserve: 1.5 mi
  • Van Dusen Preserve: 3.3 mi
  • Nicholson Preserve: 4.3 mi
  • Leon M. Steves Big Bay Preserve: 5.1 mi
Peaks
Historic sites: 54
  • Peace and Victory Monument: 2.2 mi
  • Colonel Williams Monument: 2.7 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 3.0 mi
  • Lake George Region Veterans Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • Fort George Ruins: 4.9 mi
Museums: 29
Attractions: 23
  • Frankie's Mine Train: 1.7 mi
  • Oakley's Honey Swings: 1.7 mi
  • Ranger Randy's Railway: 1.7 mi
  • Timbertown Popjets: 1.7 mi
  • Hootie's Treehouse: 1.7 mi
Picnic sites: 13
Springs: 13
  • Old Red Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Hathorn Spring: 20.1 mi
  • Congress Spring: 20.2 mi
  • Columbian Spring: 20.2 mi
  • Deer Park Spring: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 12
  • Buttermilk Falls: 5.8 mi
  • Rockwell Falls: 9.7 mi
  • Palmer Falls: 11.0 mi
  • Bear Slide: 11.4 mi
  • Shelving Rock Falls: 14.0 mi
Cliffs: 9
  • Small Rocky overlook: 5.7 mi
  • New Buck: 10.4 mi
  • Stewarts Ledge: 10.6 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 11.0 mi
  • Ark Wall: 14.6 mi
Beaches: 8
Artworks: 5
  • Standard Time: 19.8 mi
  • Devils Armchair: 20.1 mi
  • Welcome To Saratoga Springs: 20.2 mi
  • For Euler: 20.3 mi
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 24.0 mi
Gardens: 4
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 24.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Arboretum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black Spruce MountainNW 310°716 m7.3 mi
Buck MountainNNE 15°711 m11.8 mi
Pilot KnobNNE 15°658 m9.6 mi
Phoebe MountainNW 315°618 m8.6 mi
Prospect MountainNW 317°615 m6.6 mi
Bald MountainNW 309°602 m11.4 mi
Shingle MountainNW 319°595 m7.9 mi
Thomas MountainWNW 288°591 m9.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:2919:07
June solstice05:1519:5620:39
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3616:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192031445666706860483625
Precip in3.33.03.54.03.64.54.73.74.14.13.94.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glens Falls Farm, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Black-capped Chickadee23 obs
  • Common Garter Snake17 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird16 obs
  • Viceroy16 obs
  • White-winged Crossbill15 obs
  • Pileated Woodpecker15 obs
  • Autumn Meadowhawk15 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee15 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/7198502809

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