Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum
Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 34 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Cannon, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
fort used by the Dutch West India Company
Wikidata Q104534240, matched on coordinates and name (161 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 11.5 m
How to reach it
- 17.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 18.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 28.3 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cannon: 0.0 mi
- Battery Duane: 0.1 mi
- Glacis Gun Battery: 0.2 mi
- Battery Bacon: 0.2 mi
- Battery Catlin: 0.2 mi
- Fort Wadsworth: 0.1 mi
- Arthur von Briesen Park: 0.2 mi
- John E. White Playground: 0.4 mi
- Arrochar Playground: 0.8 mi
- Frederick Staats Circle: 0.8 mi
- Mont Sec House: 0.2 mi
- Alice Austen House: 0.8 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 1.1 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 1.4 mi
- Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation: 2.3 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 0.8 mi
- South Beach: 1.3 mi
- Midland Beach: 2.6 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 3.6 mi
- Cedar Grove Beach: 4.1 mi
- South Beach: 1.0 mi
- Eyes: 1.9 mi
- Wingdale: 2.7 mi
- St. Anne: 2.9 mi
- St. Anthony: 2.9 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 1.3 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 2.5 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 2.6 mi
- Swinburne Island: 2.6 mi
- Jones Woods Park: 2.9 mi
- Hill Street Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Compost and Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Narrows Botanical Gardens: 2.6 mi
- Tuscan Garden: 3.5 mi
- The Tuscan Garden: 3.5 mi
- The Gingerbread House: 2.0 mi
- Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House: 2.3 mi
- Jurassic Park: 2.8 mi
- New York City Farm Colony: 4.3 mi
- Buck’s Hollow: 4.3 mi
- Fox Hills: 1.3 mi
- Park Hill: 1.5 mi
- Signal Hill: 1.9 mi
- Emerson Hill: 1.9 mi
- Todt Hill: 3.0 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.0 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.2 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 9.8 mi
- Palisades: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Palisades: 14.6 mi
- Hawk Hill: 16.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 17.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.3 mi
- The Loch: 14.2 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 15.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 10.3 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 10.3 mi
- North Tower: 14.8 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 14.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 11.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 11.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.5 mi
- Barber: 11.7 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 18.1 mi
- Raritan Landing: 22.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 326° | 179 m | 17.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 314° | 175 m | 16.8 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NNW 337° | 144 m | 24.5 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 316° | 134 m | 20.0 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 288° | 126 m | 21.0 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 265° | 125 m | 3.0 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 205° | 120 m | 16.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 203° | 106 m | 15.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/241850436
Day trips start here
- Bayonne · 5 mi
- Staten Island · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 7 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 8 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 8 mi
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