Hickory Run State Park
Hickory Run State Park is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 532 m. Big Pine Hill stands 690 m to the north, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Pine Hill, a peak 0.4 miles away. Governor Casey Byway passes 28 miles off.
How to reach it
- 28.2 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
- 29.4 mi off the Delaware River Valley
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Hill: 0.4 mi
- Summer Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Bear Rock: 1.8 mi
- Millstone Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Lake Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Horseshoes and Baseball fields: 5.5 mi
- Lehigh Gorge State Park: 6.2 mi
- Indian Mountain Lake Park: 8.1 mi
- Pocono Lake Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Keiper Park: 9.4 mi
- Graystones Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Weiser State Forest Penn Forest Tract: 4.6 mi
- State Game Lands Number 40: 4.9 mi
- Lehigh Gorge State Park: 5.2 mi
- Thomas Darling Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Jim Thorpe Monument: 9.7 mi
- Civil War Monument: 11.2 mi
- Community Enhancement 2006 Greening Award: 14.9 mi
- Old Chain Bridge: 15.0 mi
- Palmerton Area Veteran's Memorial: 15.0 mi
- Hawk Falls: 1.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 5.7 mi
- Lukes Falls: 5.8 mi
- Tobyhanna Falls: 5.9 mi
- Great Falls of the Lehigh: 8.0 mi
- Eckley Miner's Village Museum: 10.3 mi
- Asa Packer Mansion: 11.2 mi
- Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center: 11.3 mi
- Old Jail Museum: 11.4 mi
- Lehigh Gap Historical Society: 14.8 mi
- Split Rock: 3.8 mi
- Pocono Whitewater: 4.8 mi
- Whitewater Challengers: 6.8 mi
- 100 Mile View: 12.0 mi
- Whitewater Rafting Adventures: 12.3 mi
- Penn Springs: 5.7 mi
- Pocono Spring: 11.7 mi
- Sand Spring: 12.2 mi
- Bill Warner Spring: 13.8 mi
- Octave Spring: 15.0 mi
- Benjamin Franklin Statue: 13.0 mi
- Palmerton "Patches": 15.0 mi
- Sons of Liberty: 15.0 mi
- Philip Ginder Carved Rock: 17.4 mi
- Fireman's Drinking Fountain: 18.4 mi
- Indain Mountain Lake Beach: 8.1 mi
- Glen Onoko Lehigh River Access: 10.5 mi
- Jim Thorpe Lehigh River Access: 11.1 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 12.7 mi
- Tall Timber Beach: 12.7 mi
- Devil's Elbow: 7.6 mi
- Gorgeous Rocks: 10.5 mi
- Bear Mountain Overlook: 10.7 mi
- The Knob: 18.2 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 23.7 mi
- Palmerton Concourse Club Rose Garden: 14.9 mi
- Butler Township Community Garden: 17.7 mi
- Glacier Lake Garden: 18.1 mi
- Stonehedge Gardens: 22.9 mi
- Sarah Street Garden: 24.5 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Eastbound: 8.8 mi
- Crescent Lake Rest Area: 16.0 mi
- Blue Ridge Travel Plaza: 16.6 mi
- Luzerne County Rest Area Northbound: 16.7 mi
- Camp Apple Tree: 13.3 mi
- Manny Gordon Recreation Area: 13.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Hickory Run State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Pine Hill | N 5° | 690 m | 15.3 mi |
| Dresser Hill | NE 48° | 673 m | 21.1 mi |
| Pimple Hill | E 83° | 669 m | 8.0 mi |
| Lake Mountain | NE 56° | 666 m | 3.5 mi |
| Big Shiney Mountain | N 360° | 664 m | 17.6 mi |
| Panther Hill | N 8° | 662 m | 17.0 mi |
| Bald Mountain | NNW 344° | 658 m | 16.0 mi |
| Turkey Knoll | NE 56° | 655 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:57 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:54 | 16:38 |
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 | 24 | 26 | 33 | 45 | 56 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 29 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Francis E Walter DAM, 8 mi away.
- great rhododendron64 obs
- American Bullfrog36 obs
- mountain laurel34 obs
- Eastern Newt33 obs
- Ghost Pipe28 obs
- fly poison26 obs
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander25 obs
- eastern hemlock25 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/62344452
Day trips start here
- Wilkes-Barre · 20 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 22 mi
- Sterling · 25 mi
- Bangor · 26 mi
- Nazareth · 26 mi
- Whitehall Township · 26 mi
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