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It's A Wonderful Life Museum

It's A Wonderful Life Museum from directly overhead

It's A Wonderful Life Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 133 m. Butcher Hill stands 482 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Trinity Memorial Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 2.1 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

museum centering around the film "It's a Wonderful Life" and its connection to the local area

Wikidata Q135350722, matched on coordinates and name (217 m apart).

The record

What the record says

Height
5.5 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.91040, -76.79537

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Suffrage Park: 0.1 mi
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton Park: 0.2 mi
  • Academy Square Park: 0.2 mi
  • The People's Park: 0.3 mi
  • Seneca Falls Community Park: 0.3 mi
Peaks: 47
Museums: 32
Historic sites: 28
  • The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Woman Suffrage Movement Monument: 0.1 mi
  • American Civil War Memorial: 3.5 mi
  • Enlarged Erie Canal Richmond Aqeuduct: 7.8 mi
  • Richmond Aqeuduct: 7.9 mi
  • Paper Mill: 8.0 mi
Attractions: 24
  • Site of the Whitmer Red Schoolhouse: 4.3 mi
  • Cayuga Lake (Thomas B. Marsh): 6.3 mi
  • Finger Lakes Welcome Center: 9.6 mi
  • Harriet Tubman Gravesite: 11.4 mi
  • Birth place of Zebedee Coltrin: 16.2 mi
Nature reserves: 19
Gardens: 16
Artworks: 13
  • Tom Caughlin Mural: 3.5 mi
  • Early History of Waterloo Mural: 3.6 mi
  • Oak Island Rock Sculpture: 3.7 mi
  • Herons: 4.8 mi
  • Bald Eagle: 5.7 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Hosmer Falls: 15.8 mi
  • Oak Tree Falls: 16.5 mi
  • Guppy Falls: 20.6 mi
  • Silver Thread Falls: 20.8 mi
  • Wolcott Falls: 21.5 mi
Beaches: 3
  • Glenwood Beach: 15.8 mi
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 23.8 mi
  • Kershaw Beach: 23.9 mi
Cliffs: 2
Springs: 1
  • Klippel Spring: 17.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of It's A Wonderful Life Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Butcher HillS 179°482 m24.1 mi
Jewett HillSE 129°440 m23.0 mi
Oak HillESE 120°409 m21.7 mi
Miller HillSE 141°368 m19.2 mi
Bennett HillSE 140°367 m18.1 mi
Harkness HillWSW 247°356 m24.6 mi
Baker HillENE 76°330 m24.8 mi
Lazarus HillWSW 244°323 m23.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4219:20
June solstice05:2920:0720:50
September equinox06:5518:2919:06
December solstice07:3615:5016:36

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, 12 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/7489965765

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