Glacier Lake Garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Glacier Lake Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 613 m. Big Pine Hill stands 690 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Hemlock Sanctuary, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Governor Casey Byway passes 20 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pocono Farms Country Club Association
How to reach it
- 20.4 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
- 22.7 mi off the Delaware River Valley
- 29.9 mi off the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97)
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 27 mi
- Foul Rift Observation Deck · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- E-Park: 2.2 mi
- Coolbaugh Township Municipal Park: 2.2 mi
- Borough Hall Park: 3.4 mi
- Ice Lake Park: 4.9 mi
- Seven Pines Park: 5.0 mi
- Turkey Knoll: 3.2 mi
- Seven Pines Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Dresser Hill: 3.7 mi
- Shaffers Knob: 4.0 mi
- Keipel Hill: 4.3 mi
- Hemlock Sanctuary: 0.6 mi
- Wiley Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Kephart Nature Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Fieldstone Farm Tank Creek Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Yankee Run Nature Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Red Caboose Museum: 13.5 mi
- Virigin Mary Statue: 13.7 mi
- DL&W Interlocking Tower: 14.2 mi
- Veterans' Memorial Flag & Plaque: 14.6 mi
- Gertrude Walker Gift to the Lacawac Sanctuary: 14.7 mi
- Bond Hill Falls: 6.7 mi
- Indian Ladder Falls: 9.4 mi
- Choke Creek Falls: 12.4 mi
- Tobyhanna Falls: 12.4 mi
- Great Falls of the Lehigh: 13.1 mi
- Wills Mansion Museum: 1.4 mi
- Tobyhanna Train Station: 2.1 mi
- Cresco Station Museum: 5.2 mi
- Gouldsboro Train Station: 6.5 mi
- Brodhead Creek Heritage Center: 11.4 mi
- Appalachian Express Mountain Coaster: 8.3 mi
- Split Rock: 14.6 mi
- weather station: 14.9 mi
- osprey nest: 15.0 mi
- Deagan Chimes: 15.2 mi
- Tobyhanna Lake Beach: 2.8 mi
- Tall Timber Beach: 5.4 mi
- Gouldsboro State Park Beach: 5.7 mi
- Indain Mountain Lake Beach: 13.2 mi
- Deer Beach: 16.7 mi
- Labyrinth Garden: 10.7 mi
- native plant garden: 14.9 mi
- Sarah Street Garden: 15.9 mi
- Freedom Garden: 21.0 mi
- R. N, Davis Memorial Garden: 21.1 mi
- Jacob and the Angel Sculpture: 21.7 mi
- Metanoia: 21.7 mi
- Penn State Nittany Lion: 21.8 mi
- Christ the Teacher Sculpture: 21.8 mi
- Jason Miller: 22.1 mi
- Bill Warner Spring: 5.5 mi
- Octave Spring: 6.0 mi
- Sand Spring: 12.2 mi
- Pocono Spring: 16.0 mi
- Leroy A. Smith Spring #1: 22.8 mi
- The Knob: 4.1 mi
- Ridgefield Point: 13.5 mi
- The View (Abderdeen Road Overlook): 13.9 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 18.8 mi
- Indian Head: 19.4 mi
- Robin Cove Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- Willow picnic grove: 10.5 mi
- Horeshoe picnic grove: 10.6 mi
- Manny Gordon Recreation Area: 12.3 mi
- Pecks Pond Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Crescent Lake Rest Area: 7.3 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Westbound: 15.3 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Eastbound: 15.5 mi
- Pennsylvania Welcome Center: 17.5 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Eastbound: 24.3 mi
- Eshback: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Glacier Lake Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Pine Hill | WNW 289° | 690 m | 14.1 mi |
| Dresser Hill | NNE 17° | 673 m | 3.7 mi |
| Pimple Hill | SW 215° | 669 m | 11.8 mi |
| Lake Mountain | SW 234° | 666 m | 14.6 mi |
| Big Shiney Mountain | WNW 296° | 664 m | 16.2 mi |
| Panther Hill | WNW 297° | 662 m | 13.6 mi |
| Turkey Knoll | ENE 65° | 655 m | 3.2 mi |
| Camelback Mountain | S 170° | 647 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:37 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:57 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 15:52 | 16:36 |
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 | 25 | 33 | 44 | 55 | 63 | 68 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Pocono Pocono Mountains MUN, 2 mi away.
- American beech9 obs
- purple pitcher plant8 obs
- White-tailed Deer7 obs
- eastern hemlock6 obs
- Eastern Newt5 obs
- eastern white pine5 obs
- Hickory Tussock Moth5 obs
- chicory4 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/564499710
Day trips start here
- Sterling · 11 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 18 mi
- Pocono Mountains · 20 mi
- Dunmore · 21 mi
- Scranton · 22 mi
- Bangor · 23 mi
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