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Foster Cottage Museum

Foster Cottage Museum from directly overhead

Foster Cottage Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 175 m. Worden Hill stands 666 m to the southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is W. Malcolm Griswold Rotary Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.

What to expect

Fee
No

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates42.96124, -77.13768

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • W. Malcolm Griswold Rotary Park: 0.1 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
  • John Brown Memorial Park: 0.2 mi
  • Methodist Memorial Park: 3.8 mi
  • Redfield Park: 4.0 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Attractions: 39
  • Original Stafford Schoolhouse: 6.3 mi
  • Rockwell Family Home Site: 6.5 mi
  • William Stafford Home: 6.6 mi
  • Vienna rd: 6.7 mi
  • Russell Stoddard Sawmill & Dam: 6.8 mi
Museums: 33
Nature reserves: 33
Artworks: 29
Gardens: 19
  • South Entrance/Exit Lane Bed (Entrance Lane Side): 8.3 mi
  • Inner Parking Lot Bed (Lane #1): 8.3 mi
  • North Entrance/Exit Area (Exit lane Side Bed): 8.3 mi
  • Windscreen Island #1: 8.3 mi
  • Windscreen Island #2: 8.3 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 8.7 mi
  • Kershaw Beach: 8.8 mi
  • Bristol Harbour Beach: 17.9 mi
  • Crescent Beach: 23.4 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Upper Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Postcard Falls: 22.5 mi
  • Honeoye Falls: 23.0 mi
  • Wolcott Falls: 24.4 mi
Cliffs: 3
Springs: 1
  • Klippel Spring: 14.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Foster Cottage Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Worden HillSW 223°666 m21.6 mi
Stid HillSW 221°635 m19.5 mi
South HillSSW 208°575 m20.5 mi
Johnson HillSW 222°538 m17.4 mi
East HillSSW 199°488 m21.2 mi
Bare HillSSW 210°470 m17.9 mi
Oak MountainWSW 251°358 m15.5 mi
Harkness HillSSW 201°356 m14.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4319:21
June solstice05:3020:0920:52
September equinox06:5618:3019:08
December solstice07:3715:5116:38

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232532445766706861503929
Precip in1.81.62.42.83.33.63.73.53.33.82.62.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Geneva Rsch Farm, 8 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/853328911

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