Janet Johnston Housenick and William D. Housenick Memorial Park
Janet Johnston Housenick and William D. Housenick Memorial Park is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 110 m. Bauer Rock stands 317 m to the south-southwest, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Stone Stairs, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Delaware River Valley passes 12 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Bethlehem Township
How to reach it
- 11.6 mi off the Delaware River Valley
- 12.1 mi off the Warren Heritage Scenic Byway
- 18.3 mi off the Delaware River Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Foul Rift Observation Deck · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Stone Stairs: 0.0 mi
- Orchard: 0.0 mi
- Steel Trellis: 0.1 mi
- Cedar Grove: 0.1 mi
- Interpretive kiosk: 0.2 mi
- Lime Kilns: 0.1 mi
- Bethlehem Township Veterans' Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Lock 44: 2.9 mi
- Geissinger Grist Mill: 3.0 mi
- Nick Dutko Monument: 3.0 mi
- Camel's Hump Farm Nature Education Center: 0.3 mi
- Camel's Hump Farm: 0.3 mi
- Freeman's Island: 3.1 mi
- Sandra Yerger Community Recreation Area and Nature Preserve: 5.4 mi
- Binney and Smith Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 0.4 mi
- Camelhump: 0.5 mi
- Pinetop: 1.3 mi
- Green Hill: 3.8 mi
- Holiday Hill: 4.4 mi
- The Sun Inn: 3.8 mi
- SteelStacks: 4.1 mi
- Josiah White II Canal Boat: 6.1 mi
- C. F. Martin & Co., Inc. Factory: 6.2 mi
- Lost River Caverns: 6.5 mi
- Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum: 3.5 mi
- 1810 Goundie House: 3.9 mi
- Kemerer Museum Of Decorative Arts: 3.9 mi
- 1752 Apothecary: 3.9 mi
- 1750 Smithy: 4.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.1 mi
- Louise W. Dimmick Colonial Garden: 3.4 mi
- Miller's House Garden: 3.9 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 4.0 mi
- Japanese Serenity Garden: 4.0 mi
- John Amos Comenius Monument: 3.2 mi
- Nittany Lion Mascot Statue: 3.9 mi
- Amos The Greyhound: 3.9 mi
- The Bridge: 4.1 mi
- Mr. Imagination's Sculpture Garden: 5.2 mi
- Picinic Table (S): 2.5 mi
- Picinic Table (S): 2.5 mi
- Picinic Table (S): 2.5 mi
- Picinic Table (S): 2.5 mi
- Picinic Table (C): 2.5 mi
- Helfrichs Spring: 7.8 mi
- Crystal Spring: 8.6 mi
- Lehigh Park Spring: 9.2 mi
- Marble Spring: 10.3 mi
- Stempa Spring: 10.7 mi
- Mount Washington: 7.8 mi
- Saint Anthonys Nose: 9.4 mi
- Nockamixon Cliffs: 12.7 mi
- Wolf Rocks: 18.7 mi
- lower waterfall ledge: 21.0 mi
- Princess Run Waterfall: 13.4 mi
- High Falls: 14.2 mi
- Old Mill Falls: 18.3 mi
- Wild Creek Falls: 18.5 mi
- Upper Falls: 22.3 mi
- Wilson Avenue River Access: 3.7 mi
- Walnutport Lehigh River Access: 14.0 mi
- Dunbars Lehigh River Access: 21.4 mi
- Jim Thorpe Lehigh River Access: 24.0 mi
- Indain Mountain Lake Beach: 24.2 mi
- Rest Area: 2.9 mi
- 309 Truck Stop: 12.5 mi
- Rest area: 24.1 mi
- Pennsylvania Welcome Center: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.5 miles of Janet Johnston Housenick and William D. Housenick Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauer Rock | SSW 210° | 317 m | 8.6 mi |
| Sandstone Ridge | WNW 285° | 311 m | 13.2 mi |
| Gaffney Hill | ESE 122° | 308 m | 6.1 mi |
| Flint Hill | S 178° | 308 m | 9.9 mi |
| Kirchberg | SSE 161° | 305 m | 6.1 mi |
| South Mountain | SSW 192° | 301 m | 5.5 mi |
| Kohlberg | SSE 160° | 294 m | 8.0 mi |
| South Mountain | S 182° | 282 m | 4.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:38 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:55 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:54 | 16:38 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 41 | 52 | 62 | 71 | 76 | 74 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Allentown Lehigh VLY Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer20 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly16 obs
- American Robin14 obs
- Western Honey Bee12 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle12 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider12 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee12 obs
- Largemouth Bass12 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/970680512
Day trips start here
- Bethlehem · 3 mi
- Nazareth · 5 mi
- Hellertown · 6 mi
- Easton · 7 mi
- Allentown · 8 mi
- Lehigh Valley · 8 mi
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