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House of Frankenstein Wax Museum

House of Frankenstein Wax Museum from directly overhead

House of Frankenstein Wax Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 106 m. Black Spruce Mountain stands 716 m to the west, 2.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Leonelli's Playland Arcade, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Central Adirondack Trail runs past it.

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates43.42435, -73.71367

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Shepard Park: 0.1 mi
  • Charles R. Wood Park: 0.4 mi
  • Usher Park: 0.9 mi
  • Dicks Island: 3.1 mi
  • Gurney Lane Recreation Area: 4.1 mi
Nature reserves: 59
Historic sites: 39
  • Father Jogues Monument: 0.6 mi
  • Fort George Ruins: 0.7 mi
  • pump house: 1.0 mi
  • Lake George Region Veterans Memorial: 1.3 mi
  • Colonel Williams Monument: 3.3 mi
Attractions: 25
  • Leonelli's Playland Arcade: 0.0 mi
  • Doctor Morbid's Haunted House: 0.1 mi
  • Lake George Steamboat Company: 0.3 mi
  • Wildwest Ranch & Western Town: 2.3 mi
  • Rocky's Ranger Planes: 5.2 mi
Museums: 23
Waterfalls: 16
  • Buttermilk Falls: 6.3 mi
  • Bear Slide: 8.1 mi
  • Rockwell Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Shelving Rock Falls: 10.5 mi
  • Palmer Falls: 13.2 mi
Picnic sites: 13
Cliffs: 9
  • Small Rocky overlook: 1.5 mi
  • Stewarts Ledge: 7.1 mi
  • New Buck: 7.7 mi
  • Eagle Cliff: 7.7 mi
  • Ark Wall: 11.2 mi
Beaches: 9
Gardens: 5
Springs: 5
  • Old Red Spring: 23.4 mi
  • Hathorn Spring: 24.1 mi
  • Congress Spring: 24.2 mi
  • Columbian Spring: 24.2 mi
  • Deer Park Spring: 24.2 mi
Artworks: 4
  • Standard Time: 23.8 mi
  • Devils Armchair: 24.1 mi
  • Welcome To Saratoga Springs: 24.2 mi
  • Chiseled Slate monoliths: 24.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Vermont Welcome Center: 23.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.9 miles of House of Frankenstein Wax Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black Spruce MountainW 266°716 m2.7 mi
Buck MountainNE 42°711 m8.9 mi
Pilot KnobNE 50°658 m7.0 mi
Number Nine MountainNW 304°646 m10.5 mi
Phoebe MountainWNW 291°618 m3.5 mi
Prospect MountainW 271°615 m1.6 mi
Bald MountainWNW 291°602 m6.4 mi
Bear MountainW 261°599 m10.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:1519:5620:40
September equinox06:4318:1618:54
December solstice07:2515:3516:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192031445666706860483625
Precip in3.33.03.54.03.64.54.73.74.14.13.94.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glens Falls Farm, 7 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/4403648516

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