Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial
Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial is a historic site in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 122 m. Big Lick Mountain stands 545 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Founder's Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off. 43 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- stone
How to reach it
- 10.3 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Founder's Park: 0.2 mi
- Chocolate Town Square: 0.7 mi
- Alumni Memorial Grove Park: 0.9 mi
- Brookside Park: 1.1 mi
- Palmdale Park: 1.4 mi
- The Old Hershey Chocolate Factory: 0.7 mi
- Bobcat: 0.8 mi
- River Otter: 0.8 mi
- Twin Turnpike - Speedway: 0.8 mi
- Bald Eagle: 0.8 mi
- The Hershey Story: 0.7 mi
- Kinderhaus: 0.8 mi
- Education Center: 1.5 mi
- Pennsylvania State Police Historical, Educational, & Memorial Center: 1.8 mi
- AACA Museum: 2.9 mi
- Abandoned Mount Gretna Prison Foundations: 7.7 mi
- The "Governor's Troop": 8.8 mi
- 16th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Camp Hastings.: 9.0 mi
- Highspire War Memorial: 9.0 mi
- Union Canal Tunnel: 10.7 mi
- Round Top: 4.7 mi
- Conewago Hill: 8.7 mi
- Governor Dick Hill: 10.1 mi
- Mount Ararat: 10.7 mi
- Hulls Hill: 10.9 mi
- Milton S. Hershey: 1.0 mi
- Winter: 1.5 mi
- Fall: 1.5 mi
- Summer: 1.5 mi
- The Boy with the Leaking Boot: 1.5 mi
- State Game Lands Number 246: 4.7 mi
- Bellaire Woods: 7.3 mi
- Shaw Family Nature Preserve: 7.8 mi
- State Game Lands Number 145: 8.1 mi
- State Game Lands Number 275: 9.1 mi
- Historic Hershey Rose Garden: 1.5 mi
- Bill Bowman Garden: 1.6 mi
- Northside Garden: 3.5 mi
- Palmyra Community Library: 4.0 mi
- Leon and Ethel Yeiser Rose Garden: 7.7 mi
- Original Carrousel Circle: 1.0 mi
- Quitte Creek Nature Park: 7.9 mi
- Hemlock Grove: 10.1 mi
- Main Campfire Circle: 13.8 mi
- Swing Circle: 13.9 mi
- Spring Creek Springs: 0.7 mi
- Penryth Spring: 8.5 mi
- Donegal Spring: 12.9 mi
- Spring Lake Spring: 15.0 mi
- Eichelberger Spring: 15.1 mi
- Chickies Rock: 16.8 mi
- Chinese Wall: 19.3 mi
- Round Head: 23.6 mi
- Spectator Wall: 24.7 mi
- Trailside Wall: 24.9 mi
- Mt. Gretna Lake & Beach: 8.9 mi
- Concrete Beach: 13.3 mi
- Rausch Gap: 15.5 mi
- Acrigg's Falls: 17.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Michael Horrocks 9/11 Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lick Mountain | N 8° | 545 m | 22.4 mi |
| Short Mountain | NNW 348° | 500 m | 21.5 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 4° | 496 m | 23.1 mi |
| Stony Mountain | N 350° | 491 m | 13.4 mi |
| Third Mountain | NW 318° | 488 m | 13.2 mi |
| Panther Head | NNE 26° | 473 m | 23.4 mi |
| Berry Mountain | NNW 331° | 435 m | 20.2 mi |
| Cove Mountain | WNW 282° | 419 m | 24.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:59 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:01 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middletown Harrisburg Intl AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11901134069
Day trips start here
- Wrightsville · 18 mi
- York · 22 mi
- Lancaster · 24 mi
- Lancaster County · 26 mi
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