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Willowbrook Mile Memorial (Milestone 6)

Willowbrook Mile Memorial (Milestone 6) from directly overhead

Willowbrook Mile Memorial (Milestone 6) is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Sugar Loaf stands 229 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Stride, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Inscription
Exposing conditions at Willowbrook
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.60241, -74.14836
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Nature reserves
Parks
Historic sites
  • Historic Stone Chimney: 0.5 mi
  • Site of 1st County Courthouse: 2.1 mi
  • Carriage Manufactory: 2.1 mi
  • First County Jail: 2.1 mi
  • Barn Foundation: 2.1 mi
Attractions
Museums
Peaks
  • Todt Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Emerson Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Signal Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Park Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Fox Hills: 3.8 mi
Gardens
Beaches
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 12
  • Palisades: 11.2 mi
  • Hawk Hill: 12.6 mi
  • Palisades: 13.3 mi
  • Palisades: 16.5 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 18.1 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Fallkill Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.4 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 12.6 mi
  • Hobble Falls: 12.6 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 12.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Willowbrook Mile Memorial (Milestone 6). Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar LoafWNW 301°229 m23.4 mi
Gillespie HillWNW 304°217 m22.7 mi
Mount KembleWNW 300°215 m22.6 mi
Blachleys HillWNW 297°204 m23.4 mi
Kinneys HillNW 307°180 m22.2 mi
Stony HillNNW 341°179 m15.3 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 328°175 m13.9 mi
Second Watchung MountainW 270°168 m21.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333543536373787669584738
Precip in3.43.04.13.94.04.34.74.13.83.83.34.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark Liberty Intl AP, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/12776813510

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