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Palestine Park

Palestine Park from directly overhead

Palestine Park is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 400 m. Arab Hill stands 640 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Miller Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 11 miles off. 29 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Palestine Park is a scale model of the Holy Land, including cities, hills, rivers, and seas, in approximately correct geographical relation on the grounds of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Chautauqua Institution
Access
Yes
Fee
No
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.21033, -79.46298
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Miller Park: 0.1 mi
  • Bestor Plaza: 0.2 mi
  • Lincoln Park: 0.2 mi
  • The Ravine: 0.4 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 0.4 mi
Peaks: 29
Nature reserves: 25
Museums: 21
  • Mayville Station: 2.9 mi
  • The Lawson Center for Boating Heritage on Chautauqua Lake: 5.0 mi
  • Bemus Point Historical Society: 5.1 mi
  • McClurg Museum: 9.6 mi
  • McClurg Museum: 9.6 mi
Historic sites: 16
Beaches: 10
Artworks: 6
  • Lucille Ball: 11.5 mi
  • Big Chair: 13.7 mi
  • Robert H. Jackson: 13.9 mi
  • Reuben E. Fenton: 14.1 mi
  • Jon's Fish Statue: 18.3 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Attractions: 4
  • Panama Rocks: 9.6 mi
  • I Love Lucy Mural: 14.0 mi
  • Lake Shore Savings Clock Tower: 18.0 mi
  • Dunkirk City Pier: 20.4 mi
Gardens: 2
Rest areas: 1
Springs: 1
  • Sulfur Spring: 16.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Palestine Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Arab HillENE 66°640 m15.9 mi
Boutwell HillENE 64°635 m16.4 mi
Pickup HillENE 75°630 m17.8 mi
Luce HillNE 53°605 m14.5 mi
South HillENE 63°591 m17.9 mi
Brooks RocksS 181°583 m21.5 mi
Dibble HillNE 50°579 m17.1 mi
Brown HillSSE 160°578 m21.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2218:5319:30
June solstice05:4220:1620:58
September equinox07:0618:4019:17
December solstice07:4416:0416:49

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272836485969737165544334
Precip in2.62.42.93.43.83.64.43.84.64.93.83.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westfield 2 SSE, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern American jack-o'-lantern35 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver33 obs
  • common jewelweed23 obs
  • common milkweed23 obs
  • Monarch22 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee21 obs
  • American tuliptree19 obs
  • sensitive fern18 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 way/969673687

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