McKeever Center at Clear Creek State Forest
McKeever Center at Clear Creek State Forest is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 392 m. Wheeling Hill stands 504 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Sinks Filled with Dirt, a garden 0.4 miles away. Lake Wilhelm Scenic Byway passes 0.9 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
How to reach it
- 0.9 mi off the Lake Wilhelm Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Stoneboro Park: 1.1 mi
- Stoneboro Fairground: 1.5 mi
- Mercer County Grange Fairground: 11.5 mi
- Lyon's Park: 11.7 mi
- Brandy Springs Park: 12.1 mi
- McDaniels Hill: 9.8 mi
- Wheeler Hill: 12.0 mi
- Big Bend Hill: 12.6 mi
- Wheeling Hill: 12.9 mi
- Snyder Hill: 13.2 mi
- Chief Guyasuta Monument: 8.8 mi
- Fort Machault: 14.5 mi
- Fort Venango: 14.5 mi
- Cannon: 15.2 mi
- Dunn Pond Rock: 17.7 mi
- Maurice K. Goddard State Park: 4.2 mi
- Wolf Creek Narrows Natural Area: 19.8 mi
- Cussewago Island: 20.1 mi
- Wolf Creek Narrows Natural Area: 20.1 mi
- Cussewago Riffle: 20.2 mi
- Signs & Flowers: 18.6 mi
- Venango Campus Statue: 19.5 mi
- Cannon: 19.6 mi
- Yellow 'M' Statue: 20.1 mi
- Glass Artpiece: 20.3 mi
- DeBence Antique Music World: 14.2 mi
- Canal Museam: 15.6 mi
- Hermitage Historical Society: 18.2 mi
- Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum: 19.5 mi
- Meadville Railroad Depot Museum: 19.6 mi
- Sinks Filled with Dirt: 0.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 21.4 mi
- Community Garden at PennState: 22.8 mi
- 1-4: 23.4 mi
- Stoneboro Beach: 1.0 mi
- Chestnut Run Swim Beach: 19.1 mi
- Jamestown Beach #2: 21.8 mi
- Venango County Rest Area Eastbound: 13.0 mi
- Venango County Rest Area Westbound: 13.3 mi
- Mercer Welcome Center: 24.2 mi
- Springfield Falls: 16.0 mi
- Potters Falls: 17.6 mi
- Freedom Falls: 20.0 mi
- Collins Bird Sanctuary: 20.7 mi
- Victory Lane: 23.8 mi
- Petroleum Center: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of McKeever Center at Clear Creek State Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeling Hill | NE 34° | 504 m | 12.9 mi |
| Round Knob | NNE 14° | 491 m | 13.6 mi |
| Annisville Hill | SE 140° | 485 m | 24.3 mi |
| Foster Hill | ENE 64° | 484 m | 21.0 mi |
| Pine Knoll | NNE 16° | 483 m | 14.6 mi |
| Eakin Knob | SE 130° | 480 m | 19.9 mi |
| Boyers Hill | SSE 150° | 463 m | 21.4 mi |
| McDaniels Hill | NNE 16° | 462 m | 9.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:56 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:16 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:10 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 37 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mercer, 12 mi away.
- American Gizzard Shad40 obs
- striped wintergreen21 obs
- mountain laurel18 obs
- Red-breasted Merganser17 obs
- Great Blue Heron14 obs
- Bald Eagle12 obs
- Common Loon9 obs
- American tuliptree8 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1195653471
Day trips start here
- Oil City · 21 mi
- Titusville · 29 mi
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