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Electric City Trolley Museum

Electric City Trolley Museum from directly overhead

Electric City Trolley Museum is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 225 m. Big Pine Hill stands 690 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is 1902 Roundhouse & Technology Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. Governor Casey Byway passes 3.9 miles off.

About

The story

transport museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Dates from 1999.

Wikidata Q5357338, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.40965, -75.67336

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Novembrino Park: 0.3 mi
  • Heritage Trail: 0.4 mi
  • Kevin P. Quinn, SJ, Athletics Campus: 0.4 mi
  • Heritage Trail: 0.5 mi
  • Renaissance Park: 0.5 mi
Peaks
  • West Mountain: 3.6 mi
  • Bald Mountain: 3.7 mi
  • Baby Bell: 3.8 mi
  • Coon Hill: 4.2 mi
  • Pinnacle Rock: 4.3 mi
Historic sites: 57
  • Inspection Pit: 0.2 mi
  • Mine Storage Building foundation: 0.3 mi
  • President William McKinley Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Christopher Columbus Monument: 0.5 mi
  • Medal of Honor Memorial: 0.5 mi
Nature reserves: 35
  • Montage Mountain Wildflower Sanctuary: 5.0 mi
  • Dick & Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain: 7.1 mi
  • Dick & Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain: 7.7 mi
  • Rabbit Hollow Wildlife Sanctuary: 7.8 mi
  • Waverly Preserve: 8.1 mi
Attractions: 15
Museums: 14
Artworks: 12
Gardens: 9
  • Prayer Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Mulberry Plaza: 0.8 mi
  • Lower Quad: 1.0 mi
  • Upper Quad: 1.0 mi
  • Freedom Garden: 1.6 mi
Waterfalls: 9
Beaches: 6
  • Gouldsboro State Park Beach: 16.8 mi
  • Tobyhanna Lake Beach: 19.9 mi
  • Deer Beach: 20.9 mi
  • Tall Timber Beach: 22.1 mi
  • Gravel Beach: 24.7 mi
Springs: 4
  • Sand Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Pocono Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Octave Spring: 17.8 mi
  • Bill Warner Spring: 19.5 mi
Cliffs: 3
  • Campbell's Ledge: 7.2 mi
  • The View (Abderdeen Road Overlook): 10.0 mi
  • Devil's Elbow: 22.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Manny Gordon Recreation Area: 14.4 mi
  • Horeshoe picnic grove: 19.7 mi
  • Willow picnic grove: 19.7 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Roadside Rest: 17.4 mi
  • Pike County Rest Area Westbound: 23.7 mi
  • Pike County Rest Area Eastbound: 23.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.4 miles of Electric City Trolley Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big Pine HillS 171°690 m12.2 mi
Salem HillNE 49°686 m14.8 mi
Pinnacle RockWNW 287°685 m4.3 mi
Pinnacle RockWNW 290°681 m4.3 mi
Big Shiney MountainS 176°664 m9.6 mi
Panther HillSSE 163°662 m10.9 mi
West MountainNNW 336°659 m3.6 mi
Bald MountainSSW 197°658 m12.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:3819:15
June solstice05:3019:5920:40
September equinox06:5118:2519:02
December solstice07:2615:5216:37

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506169747265534333
Precip in2.62.12.83.33.33.83.63.94.13.72.82.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wilkes-barre/scranton Intl AP, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/370373456

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