Ellis Hollow Park
Ellis Hollow Park is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 326 m. Virgil Mountain stands 643 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Conwell Tract, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway passes 4.7 miles off.
Recreational Fields, Playground, Pool, Pavilion, Trails
What to expect
- Operated by
- Ellis Hollow Community Center
How to reach it
- 4.7 mi off the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway
- 14.7 mi off the Scenic Route 90
Overlooks nearby
- Fuertes Swan Pond Overlook · 5 mi
- Taughannock Falls Overlook · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Snyder Hill: 1.1 mi
- Turkey Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hungerford Hill: 1.8 mi
- Mount Pleasant: 2.4 mi
- Comstock Knoll: 3.2 mi
- Hungerford Heights Park: 1.8 mi
- Eastern Heights Park: 1.9 mi
- Tudor Park: 2.2 mi
- F.R. Newman Arboretum: 2.5 mi
- Grandview Park: 2.8 mi
- Conwell Tract: 0.4 mi
- Dewey Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Travis Wildflower Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Durland Nature Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Polson Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Potter's Falls: 2.6 mi
- Triphammer Falls: 3.6 mi
- Rocky Falls: 3.8 mi
- Horseshoe Falls: 3.9 mi
- Ithaca Falls: 4.2 mi
- Incodema: 2.1 mi
- The Overlook At West Hill (housing for the elderly): 6.8 mi
- Turn here for fresh eggs farm stand: 8.2 mi
- Stick And Stone Farm and CSA: 9.0 mi
- Rt 96 Self Storage: 9.6 mi
- Tompkins Center for History & Culture: 4.2 mi
- Sciencenter: 4.7 mi
- Museum of the Earth: 6.6 mi
- Field School House: 8.6 mi
- Cayuga Nature Center: 9.4 mi
- Muenscher Poisonous Plants Garden: 2.9 mi
- Student Centennial Garden: 3.4 mi
- Minn's Garden: 3.4 mi
- Deans Garden: 3.4 mi
- Rockwell Azalea Garden: 3.5 mi
- Andrew Dickson White Statue: 3.7 mi
- Monument of Ezra Cornell: 3.8 mi
- Bob Baker BBQ Pavilion: 8.6 mi
- Peter Wheeler historic marker: 10.5 mi
- Birthplace of John D Rockefeller: 12.8 mi
- Pinnacle Rock: 5.4 mi
- Point O'Rocks: 10.9 mi
- Glen Cathedral: 24.1 mi
- Devils Elbow: 24.9 mi
- Whitney Point Rest Area: 21.7 mi
- Preble: 23.9 mi
- Owego Rest Area: 24.9 mi
- Black Lives Matter: 4.6 mi
- Der deutsche Strand: 6.5 mi
- Tamarack Spring: 7.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Ellis Hollow Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virgil Mountain | ENE 73° | 643 m | 14.6 mi |
| Connecticut Hill | WSW 256° | 638 m | 13.4 mi |
| Greek Peak | ENE 72° | 637 m | 14.2 mi |
| South Hill | ENE 70° | 635 m | 14.1 mi |
| Tuller Hill | ENE 66° | 616 m | 16.1 mi |
| Star Stanton Hill | E 82° | 612 m | 6.6 mi |
| Irish Hill | SW 228° | 599 m | 16.5 mi |
| Hammond Hill | E 89° | 598 m | 6.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:04 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 56 | 65 | 69 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ithaca Cornell Univ, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/768802771
Day trips start here
- Ithaca · 4 mi
- Trumansburg · 15 mi
- Cortland · 17 mi
- Eastern Finger Lakes · 19 mi
- Watkins Glen · 24 mi
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