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Poe Valley State Park

Poe Valley State Park from directly overhead

Poe Valley State Park is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 421 m. Thickhead Mountain stands 733 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Poe Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Bucktail Trail passes 22 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates40.82204, -77.47583
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Historic sites
Parks
  • Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park: 5.0 mi
  • Mira Lloyd Dock Resource Conservation Center: 7.7 mi
  • Potter Run Park: 8.0 mi
  • Milroy Baseball Fields: 9.8 mi
  • Joyce Kilmer Monument: 11.3 mi
Springs: 42
  • Havice Spring: 1.7 mi
  • White Pine Spring: 2.4 mi
  • Mammoth Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Cold Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Steel Spring: 12.7 mi
Museums: 23
Artworks: 23
Attractions: 20
  • Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park: 8.2 mi
  • Red Candle Island: 11.9 mi
  • Beer Tap: 12.4 mi
  • Lewistown Armory: 14.6 mi
  • Deeded Square Inches: 16.5 mi
Gardens: 11
Nature reserves: 11
Picnic sites: 8
Cliffs: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Beaches: 2
  • Kish park beach access: 14.3 mi
  • Beach access to Kish Creek: 16.3 mi
Waterfalls: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Clinton County Rest Area Westbound: 23.0 mi
  • Clinton County Rest Area Eastbound: 23.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Poe Valley State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Thickhead MountainWSW 245°733 m12.6 mi
The WineheadN 2°724 m9.7 mi
Broad MountainWSW 239°716 m11.8 mi
Big Kettle MountainNNW 346°688 m10.2 mi
Bald MountainWSW 240°675 m9.6 mi
Strong MountainSSE 163°672 m3.0 mi
White MountainE 86°671 m4.9 mi
Thick MountainENE 57°671 m7.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:22
June solstice05:3920:0420:46
September equinox06:5818:3319:09
December solstice07:3216:0216:46

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242735475867716961503930
Precip in3.02.33.33.63.94.03.94.04.43.63.13.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millheim, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spongy Moth8 obs
  • mountain laurel8 obs
  • Cucumber Root7 obs
  • Table Mountain pine5 obs
  • partridgeberry4 obs
  • Ebony Jewelwing4 obs
  • Blackburnian Warbler4 obs
  • round-lobed hepatica4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/389646913

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