James Pass Arboretum
James Pass Arboretum is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 165 m. Morgan Hill stands 618 m to the south-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Tipperary Hill Heritage Memorial, a artwork 0.3 miles away. Route 20 Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 11.3 mi off the Route 20 Scenic Byway
- 25.9 mi off the Scenic Route 90
- 28.0 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 29.7 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Stone Throwers’ Park: 0.3 mi
- Burnet Park: 0.4 mi
- Faldo Park: 0.5 mi
- O'Connor Park: 0.7 mi
- Lewis Park: 0.7 mi
- Gillis Hill: 3.3 mi
- Chestnut Ridge: 3.7 mi
- Smith Hill: 4.9 mi
- Howlett Hill: 6.0 mi
- Terre Hill: 6.8 mi
- Bigsby Drumlin: 1.5 mi
- Split Rock Unique Area: 3.0 mi
- Lafayette Road Experiment Station: 4.7 mi
- Camillus Forest Unique Area: 4.8 mi
- Wiesner Green Space: 5.8 mi
- Ollie's Point: 1.7 mi
- Berlin Wall panel: 1.8 mi
- Shot Clock Monument: 1.8 mi
- Jerry Rescue Monument: 1.9 mi
- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 2.0 mi
- Museum of Science and Technology: 1.8 mi
- Onondaga Historical Association Museum & Research Center: 2.1 mi
- Erie Canal Museum: 2.2 mi
- Everson Museum of Art: 2.2 mi
- Witter Agricultural Museum: 2.5 mi
- Tipperary Hill Heritage Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Mountain Goat: 1.7 mi
- Walt: 1.7 mi
- One, Two, Three: 1.8 mi
- Waiting for the Night Train: 2.6 mi
- Marcellus Falls: 8.1 mi
- Brickyard Falls: 11.1 mi
- Guppy Falls: 11.6 mi
- Edwards Falls: 12.1 mi
- Pratts Falls: 12.6 mi
- Bitternut Collective Permaculture Kitchen Garden: 1.1 mi
- South Side Garden: 2.7 mi
- E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden: 3.2 mi
- Morningside Community Garden: 3.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden of Hope: 3.7 mi
- Jamesville Beach: 7.9 mi
- Green Lakes Beach: 11.5 mi
- Valentine's Beach: 13.0 mi
- Oneida Shores: 13.2 mi
- Stevenson Beach: 22.0 mi
- Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center: 2.1 mi
- Great New York State Fair: 2.3 mi
- New York State Fairgrounds: 2.5 mi
- Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge: 3.2 mi
- Harriet Tubman Gravesite: 21.0 mi
- Willow Bay: 5.6 mi
- Galster Pavilion: 7.2 mi
- Cedar Bay Pavilion: 7.7 mi
- Spruce Grove Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Poolsbrook Picnic Area: 13.7 mi
- Dorwin Springs: 4.4 mi
- Preble: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.8 miles of James Pass Arboretum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Hill | SSE 151° | 618 m | 20.5 mi |
| Truxton Hill | SSE 163° | 616 m | 20.7 mi |
| Fellows Hill | SSE 152° | 611 m | 18.2 mi |
| Labrador Hill | SSE 160° | 606 m | 19.5 mi |
| Ripley Hill | S 188° | 604 m | 17.7 mi |
| Kinney Hill | SE 131° | 599 m | 23.0 mi |
| Jones Hill | SSE 156° | 598 m | 18.8 mi |
| Arab Hill | SE 138° | 593 m | 20.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:40 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 20:05 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 15:47 | 16:33 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 46 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Syracuse Hancock Intl AP, 6 mi away.
- Bald Eagle84 obs
- Mallard44 obs
- Black-and-gold Bumble Bee39 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant38 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel36 obs
- Great Blue Heron35 obs
- Brown-lipped Snail32 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird29 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/175536359
Day trips start here
- Syracuse · 2 mi
- Skaneateles · 14 mi
- Cazenovia · 19 mi
- Weedsport · 19 mi
- Auburn · 20 mi
- Central New York · 20 mi
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