Reading Railroad Heritage Museum
Reading Railroad Heritage Museum is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 113 m. Broad Mountain stands 518 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Hamburg Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Route 419 Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 113 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Route 419 Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Tilden Township Park: 0.7 mi
- Hamburg Community Park: 0.9 mi
- Kaercher Creek Park: 1.1 mi
- Windsor Township Park: 1.7 mi
- Shoemakersville Municipal Park: 2.9 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 4.3 mi
- Owls Head: 5.5 mi
- Hemlock Heights: 5.7 mi
- The Pinnacle: 5.9 mi
- Cobble: 5.9 mi
- Veterans of Upper Bern Township Memorial: 6.8 mi
- Rachel Trois Memorial: 7.6 mi
- Auburn Desilting Basin monument: 8.6 mi
- Fraternal Order of Police Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Ruined Foundation: 12.3 mi
- Crystal Cave: 7.4 mi
- Kutztown Fairgrounds: 10.6 mi
- Christmas Village Railroad: 12.2 mi
- Wishing Well: 12.2 mi
- Christmas in Other Lands: 12.2 mi
- Hamburg Area Historical Society: 0.6 mi
- Mid-Atlantic Air Museum: 11.4 mi
- Reeser House Visitor Center: 12.3 mi
- Old Spokes Car Museum: 13.6 mi
- Berks History Center: 13.8 mi
- State Game Lands Number 110: 6.6 mi
- Jefferson Tract - Weiser State Forest: 6.9 mi
- State Game Lands Number 222: 11.7 mi
- Bob's Woods at Earl Poole Sanctuary: 13.0 mi
- Neversink Mountain Preserve: 16.1 mi
- Owl Totem Pole: 6.6 mi
- Sesquicentennial Mural: 8.9 mi
- Sculpture Plaza: 12.2 mi
- Der Distelfink Statue: 12.3 mi
- Santa Claus: 12.3 mi
- Hamburg Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- Native Habitat Garden: 6.0 mi
- Andrew Maier Pollinator Garden: 8.9 mi
- Doctor's Grove: 12.2 mi
- Salad & Herb Garden: 12.3 mi
- Pocahontas Spring: 2.4 mi
- Peters Creek Spring: 7.7 mi
- Geiles Spring: 8.8 mi
- Pine Spring: 10.1 mi
- Mammoth Spring: 11.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 20.0 mi
- White Oak Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 23.2 mi
- Red Rock Picnic Area: 23.5 mi
- Food Fest Grove: 23.6 mi
- Peace Rock: 2.7 mi
- Round Head: 17.5 mi
- Pinnacle Point: 18.5 mi
- Swatara Falls: 21.6 mi
- Un-named Falls: 21.6 mi
- Walnutport Lehigh River Access: 24.4 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.7 miles of Reading Railroad Heritage Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Mountain | NNW 332° | 518 m | 18.2 mi |
| The Pinnacle | NE 39° | 498 m | 5.9 mi |
| Dans Pulpit | NNE 14° | 497 m | 7.9 mi |
| Pisgah Mountain | NNE 16° | 492 m | 19.5 mi |
| Bake Oven Knob | NE 43° | 483 m | 19.0 mi |
| Bears Rocks | NE 42° | 475 m | 17.4 mi |
| Pulpit Rock | NE 37° | 467 m | 4.3 mi |
| Hemlock Heights | N 3° | 461 m | 5.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:58 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:57 | 16:41 |
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 | 29 | 31 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hamburg, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/539939217
Day trips start here
- Reading · 15 mi
- Emmaus · 25 mi
- Allentown · 27 mi
- Lehigh Valley · 27 mi
- Pottstown · 27 mi
- Whitehall Township · 27 mi
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