Dia:Beacon
Dia:Beacon is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Schunnemunk Mountain stands 507 m to the southwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Long Dock Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway passes 12 miles off.
The story
Dia Beacon is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated near the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Dia Beacon's facility, the Riggio Galleries, is a former Nabisco box-printing facility that was renovated by Dia with artist Robert Irwin and architects Alan Koch, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff, and Linda Taalman, then of OpenOffice. Along with Dia's permanent collection, Dia Beacon also presents temporary exhibitions, as well as public programs designed to complement the collection and exhibitions, including monthly Gallery Talks, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Events, Community Free Days for neighboring counties, and an education program that serves area students at all levels. With 160,000 square feet (15,000 m2), it is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country for modern and contemporary art.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2003.
Wikidata Q1207917, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Dia Art Foundation
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Shawangunk Mountains Scenic Byway
- 29.4 mi off the Western Highlands Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 20 mi
- Hawkwatch · 20 mi
- High Exposure · 20 mi
- Pinnacle Rock · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Long Dock Park: 0.3 mi
- South Avenue Park: 0.3 mi
- Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park: 0.6 mi
- Madam Brett Homestead: 0.8 mi
- Madame Brett Park: 0.9 mi
- City of Beacon War Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Tower of Victory: 1.4 mi
- Mount Culian: 1.6 mi
- Beacon Hill Incline Railway Powerhouse: 1.7 mi
- American revolution signal Beacon monument: 2.1 mi
- North Beacon Mountain: 2.1 mi
- South Beacon Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Lambs Hill: 2.8 mi
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Breakneck Ridge: 3.1 mi
- Stonykill Environmental Education Center: 3.9 mi
- Roe Park: 4.7 mi
- Open Space Institute: 7.1 mi
- Hudson Highlands Land Trust: 8.6 mi
- Ulster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel: 8.7 mi
- Day Game: 6.1 mi
- Muro Series X: 6.1 mi
- A Moment in Time: 6.1 mi
- Fayette: For Charles and Medgar Evers: 6.2 mi
- Mahatma: 6.2 mi
- Motorcyclepedia Museum: 2.6 mi
- National Purple Heart Hall of Honor: 4.4 mi
- Hudson Highlands Nature Center - Wildlife Education Campus: 4.7 mi
- Van Wyck Homestead Museum: 5.1 mi
- Edmonston House: 5.2 mi
- Eagle Cliff: 8.3 mi
- Hell Hole: 12.2 mi
- Kaal Rock: 14.2 mi
- Lemon Squeezer: 18.5 mi
- Millbrook: 19.1 mi
- Dunderberg Spiral Railway: 15.1 mi
- Timp-Torne Trail: 15.1 mi
- Ulster County Fair: 17.0 mi
- Huguenot Street Historic District: 18.2 mi
- Historic Huguenot District: 18.2 mi
- Haldane School Garden: 5.6 mi
- Boscobel Gardens: 6.5 mi
- Vegetable Garden: 12.2 mi
- Cut Garden: 12.2 mi
- Vassar College Community Gardens: 13.0 mi
- Canopus Beach: 8.4 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 14.4 mi
- Berean Park Beach: 15.1 mi
- Ten Eycks Beach: 17.6 mi
- Brick Beach: 17.7 mi
- LG waterfall: 12.2 mi
- Saw Mill Falls: 20.8 mi
- Awosting Falls: 20.8 mi
- Peter's Kill Falls: 20.9 mi
- Sheldon Falls: 20.9 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 13.8 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 13.8 mi
- Wallkill Rest Area: 16.3 mi
- Middletown Rest Area: 22.0 mi
- Dicktown: 10.9 mi
- Doodletown: 13.9 mi
- Trapps Mountain Hamlet Historic District: 20.1 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 7.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Dia:Beacon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schunnemunk Mountain | SW 223° | 507 m | 10.2 mi |
| South Beacon Mountain | ESE 123° | 491 m | 2.4 mi |
| North Beacon Mountain | ESE 113° | 465 m | 2.1 mi |
| Bald Hill | E 88° | 456 m | 3.4 mi |
| Lambs Hill | E 97° | 454 m | 2.8 mi |
| Spy Rock | SSW 195° | 441 m | 7.8 mi |
| Bull Hill | SSE 162° | 433 m | 4.5 mi |
| Crows Nest | S 180° | 429 m | 6.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:45 | 16:30 |
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 | 28 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W PT, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 03000063OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Des Moines Art Center, reference 03000063, listed 10/19/04.
OpenStreetMap element way/116359811
Day trips start here
- Cold Spring · 6 mi
- Highlands · 11 mi
- Putnam County · 13 mi
- Stony Point · 18 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 21 mi
- Ossining · 24 mi
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