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Mount Loretto Unique Area

Mount Loretto Unique Area from directly overhead

Mount Loretto Unique Area is a nature reserve in New York, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Sugar Loaf stands 229 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Rev John C. Drumgoole, a artwork 0.3 miles away. Millstone Valley Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York State Department of Environemntal Conservation

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Getting there

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Coordinates40.50777, -74.21630
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
Beaches
Nature reserves
Parks
Museums
Attractions
  • The South Pole: 1.9 mi
  • Staten Island Boat Graveyard: 3.4 mi
  • Heyerdahl Ruins: 6.6 mi
  • Buck’s Hollow: 6.7 mi
  • New York City Farm Colony: 7.3 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly garden: 5.9 mi
  • Greenbelt Native Plant Center: 6.4 mi
  • Native Rhododendron Garden: 7.1 mi
  • Mariners Harbor Houses Farm: 9.0 mi
  • South River Community Garden: 9.0 mi
Peaks: 53
Picnic sites: 24
  • Linden Airport mini-park: 7.5 mi
  • Telegraph Hill Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
  • Holy Trinity Picnic Site: 9.5 mi
  • Grove 4: 10.8 mi
  • Grove 3B: 11.0 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Hawk Hill: 16.7 mi
  • Palisades: 18.6 mi
  • Palisades: 20.8 mi
  • Palisades: 23.9 mi
  • little daddy Maginot: 24.4 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Seele: 14.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 16.7 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 17.2 mi
Lighthouses: 7
Rest areas: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 17.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Loretto Unique Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar LoafNW 318°229 m24.9 mi
Gillespie HillNW 321°217 m24.5 mi
Mount KembleNW 318°215 m24.0 mi
Blachleys HillNW 315°204 m24.4 mi
Kinneys HillNW 324°180 m24.4 mi
Stony HillN 356°179 m21.1 mi
Mayapple HillNNW 348°175 m18.7 mi
Second Watchung MountainWNW 291°168 m18.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0118:3319:09
June solstice05:2719:5020:32
September equinox06:4518:2018:56
December solstice07:1815:5016:34

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323341526171767467554537
Precip in3.73.04.43.94.04.84.84.74.24.13.44.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Brunswick 3 SE, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Asian bittersweet584 obs
  • white snakeroot349 obs
  • Canada Goose130 obs
  • common mugwort124 obs
  • Mallard107 obs
  • Fowler's Toad100 obs
  • Brant93 obs
  • American sweetgum81 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/429417073

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