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Stow Hill

Stow Hill from directly overhead

Stow Hill is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 61 m. Misery Mountain stands 793 m to the east-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Stow Hill Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Mohawk Towpath Byway passes 5.3 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Troy
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.69921, -73.69837

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Burden Iron Works: 0.3 mi
  • King Fuels: 0.4 mi
  • Burden Iron Works: 0.5 mi
  • Burden Iron Lower Works: 0.5 mi
  • Colonel Philip Schuyler House Foundations: 0.7 mi
Parks
  • Schuyler Flatts Cultural Park: 0.8 mi
  • Sheridan Avenue Park: 0.8 mi
  • South Troy Swimming Pool: 0.9 mi
  • Pershing Green Memorial Park: 0.9 mi
  • Gazebo Park: 1.0 mi
Peaks
Museums: 48
Waterfalls: 35
  • Corning Cascade Falls: 0.4 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 0.4 mi
  • Upper Burden Falls: 0.5 mi
  • Lower Burden Falls: 1.1 mi
  • Smart's Cascade: 1.1 mi
Gardens: 35
  • Wildflowers: 1.4 mi
  • Leslie's Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Troy Rocks: 1.8 mi
  • Linden Grove Cremation Garden: 2.0 mi
  • Gretchen's Garden: 2.0 mi
Artworks: 33
Attractions: 28
  • Saint Brigid's Bell: 0.9 mi
  • John Van Buren Grave: 1.5 mi
  • William Learned Marcy Grave: 1.6 mi
  • Erastus Dow Palmer Grave: 1.7 mi
  • Corning Plot: 1.7 mi
Cliffs: 12
Springs: 9
  • Spring Avenue Spring: 1.6 mi
  • Bathtub Spring: 16.4 mi
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 24.1 mi
  • Karista Spring: 24.8 mi
  • Tallulah Spring: 24.8 mi
Beaches: 6
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area I-87 (South Bound): 8.5 mi
  • Clifton Park Rest Area: 12.9 mi
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 13.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Stow Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Misery MountainESE 106°793 m20.1 mi
Rounds MountainESE 116°685 m20.5 mi
Rounds MountainESE 116°683 m20.5 mi
Misery MountainESE 106°662 m20.5 mi
Rocky HillE 101°625 m16.5 mi
Perigo HillE 100°571 m12.0 mi
Buck RockESE 106°562 m16.4 mi
The GipfelESE 111°561 m12.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1819:5420:37
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:2315:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836496170757366534232
Precip in2.62.42.93.13.84.64.63.93.84.22.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • tree-of-heaven67 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee49 obs
  • White-tailed Deer41 obs
  • Japanese creeper30 obs
  • garlic mustard29 obs
  • common mugwort25 obs
  • Asian bittersweet21 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee18 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/1460848395

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