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Canandaigua Highlands Overlook

Canandaigua Highlands Overlook from directly overhead

Canandaigua Highlands Overlook is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 333 m. Frost Hill stands 696 m to the northwest, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Carolabarb Park, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Finger Lakes Land Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.66537, -77.36990
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Naples Community Park: 3.0 mi
  • Ontario County Park: 3.4 mi
  • Naples City Hall Park: 3.7 mi
  • Grimes Glen: 4.1 mi
  • Grimes Glen Park: 4.1 mi
Nature reserves: 23
Gardens: 17
  • Noth Entrance/Exit Lane Turf Area Customer Parking Area: 15.7 mi
  • Windscreen Island #6: 15.7 mi
  • North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 15.7 mi
  • Windscreen Island #5: 15.7 mi
  • Windscreen Island #4: 15.7 mi
Attractions: 15
  • Bristol Mountain: 5.8 mi
  • Roswell Murray home site: 20.8 mi
  • Minnehans Fun Center: 21.1 mi
  • Solomon F. Kimball Home: 21.6 mi
  • Heber C. Kimball: 21.7 mi
Historic sites: 15
Museums: 15
  • Narcissa Prentiss House: 11.0 mi
  • Yates County History Center: 15.9 mi
  • Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum: 16.6 mi
  • Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum: 18.2 mi
  • Finger Lakes Boating Museum: 19.2 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Upper Falls: 8.5 mi
  • Reynolds Gully Falls: 11.1 mi
  • Honeoye Falls: 22.8 mi
  • Triphammer Falls: 24.1 mi
  • Keshequa Creek Falls: 24.3 mi
Artworks: 6
  • Cornplanter: 15.7 mi
  • William Smith Sculpture: 23.4 mi
  • 'The Scissors' Sculpture: 23.6 mi
  • Elizabeth Blackwell Sculpture: 23.7 mi
  • FLTG Golfball: 24.0 mi
Cliffs: 5
Beaches: 3
  • Bristol Harbour Beach: 5.9 mi
  • Kershaw Beach: 15.4 mi
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 15.4 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Kanona Rest Area: 20.3 mi
  • Geneseo Rest Area: 23.7 mi
  • Mount Morris Rest Area: 23.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Canandaigua Highlands Overlook. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Frost HillNW 310°696 m4.9 mi
Gannett HillNW 321°690 m3.1 mi
Cleveland HillWNW 286°671 m2.9 mi
Canadice HillW 277°671 m7.7 mi
Worden HillNNW 328°666 m5.4 mi
High Point HillWSW 251°659 m4.0 mi
Quail HillNW 312°654 m6.0 mi
Sand HillSW 229°654 m16.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4519:22
June solstice05:3220:0920:52
September equinox06:5718:3119:09
December solstice07:3715:5416:39

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633455765696861514031
Precip in2.21.92.73.13.24.14.33.73.23.62.72.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Honeoye, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1245757745

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