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Mount Holly Sanctuary

Mount Holly Sanctuary from directly overhead

Mount Holly Sanctuary is a nature reserve in New York, at a recorded elevation of 183 m. Pine Mountain stands 304 m to the east-northeast, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Ramsay Hunt Preserve, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 13 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
183 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.28042, -73.64249

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Fox Valley Town Park: 1.0 mi
  • Bedford Audubon Society Park: 1.6 mi
  • John Jay Campus: 1.7 mi
  • John Jay Homestead: 2.3 mi
  • Lewisboro Town Park: 2.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Cyrus Russell Community House: 2.0 mi
  • Plaque for William Ward, Founder of the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation: 2.6 mi
  • Old Bet Elephant Statue: 4.0 mi
  • grave of grand rabbi of kasho : 4.4 mi
  • Old stone wall: 4.8 mi
Museums
Peaks
Artworks
  • Annunaki: 3.8 mi
  • P.T. Barnum: 13.4 mi
  • greek letter pi: 13.5 mi
  • River Arch: 14.6 mi
  • Lesser Evil: 14.7 mi
Gardens: 53
Beaches: 46
  • Mamanasco Beach: 6.5 mi
  • Twixt Hills Beach: 7.7 mi
  • Mahopac Hills Beach: 9.4 mi
  • Tonetta Lake Beach: 9.8 mi
  • Canopus Beach: 16.2 mi
Attractions: 20
Waterfalls: 12
  • Sheep Falls: 10.3 mi
  • Cascade: 10.5 mi
  • Farms Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Saugatuck Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Cascade: 12.5 mi
Cliffs: 10
Picnic sites: 9
  • Bergfield Picnic Site: 3.2 mi
  • Pell Hill: 3.5 mi
  • The Meadow: 11.8 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 20.6 mi
  • Oak Grove: 20.8 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Danbury Rest Area: 9.8 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 13.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 14.0 mi
  • East Fishkill Rest Area: 18.8 mi
  • Stormville Rest Area: 19.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Lighthouses: 3
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 7.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Mount Holly Sanctuary. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pine MountainENE 59°304 m9.4 mi
Bailey MountainENE 65°299.314 m5.2 mi
Piano MountainWNW 296°299 m10.6 mi
Moses MountainENE 59°296 m10.7 mi
Senior HillNW 319°292 m8.0 mi
Hitchcock HillNNW 331°292 m10.5 mi
Watermelon HillNW 325°290 m7.1 mi
Barlow MountainENE 67°290 m8.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3019:07
June solstice05:2219:5020:32
September equinox06:4318:1718:54
December solstice07:1815:4516:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836485867727063524132
Precip in3.73.14.13.93.95.04.34.34.84.64.24.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yorktown HTS 1W, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1422093027

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