Prompton State Park
Prompton State Park is a nature reserve in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 343 m. North Knob stands 817 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Old stone bridge, a historic site 2.5 miles away. Governor Casey Byway passes 7.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
- 14.7 mi off the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97)
- 16.6 mi off the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Golf Hill: 4.3 mi
- Watts Hill: 4.8 mi
- High Knob: 5.0 mi
- Smith Hill: 6.3 mi
- Flat Rock: 7.6 mi
- Wayside Park: 4.4 mi
- Veterans Park: 4.4 mi
- Torrey Park: 4.9 mi
- The Tony and Marie Berris Memorial Park: 5.3 mi
- Honesdale Central Park: 5.4 mi
- Old stone bridge: 2.5 mi
- Old stone bridge: 2.6 mi
- Unknown Structure: 7.8 mi
- World War One Memorial: 12.4 mi
- Birthplace of First Aid: 12.5 mi
- Wayne County Fairgrounds: 4.0 mi
- rock: 13.7 mi
- white pines and blueberries: 13.8 mi
- swimming rock: 14.0 mi
- grassy track continues: 14.2 mi
- Merli-Sarnoski County Park: 10.4 mi
- State Game Lands Number 310: 13.1 mi
- Shuman Point Natural Area: 14.0 mi
- Dick & Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain: 15.8 mi
- Dick & Nancy Eales Preserve at Moosic Mountain: 16.2 mi
- Dorflinger Glass Museum: 9.8 mi
- Fort Delaware Museum of Colonial History: 14.7 mi
- Zane Grey Museum: 20.5 mi
- Houdini Museum: 21.1 mi
- Everhart Museum: 21.8 mi
- Muriel's Garden: 12.5 mi
- native plant garden: 16.9 mi
- R. N, Davis Memorial Garden: 21.7 mi
- Freedom Garden: 21.8 mi
- Mulberry Plaza: 22.0 mi
- Nittany Lion Shrine: 19.0 mi
- Worthington Scranton Statue: 19.1 mi
- Penn State Nittany Lion: 20.3 mi
- Jacob and the Angel Sculpture: 22.0 mi
- Metanoia: 22.0 mi
- Gravel Beach: 13.7 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.3 mi
- Palmyra Township Public Beach: 14.5 mi
- Deer Beach: 15.9 mi
- river access: 17.3 mi
- Carley Brook Falls: 6.4 mi
- Wangum Falls: 9.8 mi
- Jensen Cascade: 19.6 mi
- Nay Aug Falls: 21.6 mi
- The View (Abderdeen Road Overlook): 20.3 mi
- Ridgefield Point: 22.7 mi
- Overlook Cliff: 23.9 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Eastbound: 19.1 mi
- Pike County Rest Area Westbound: 19.2 mi
- Horeshoe picnic grove: 21.1 mi
- Willow picnic grove: 21.2 mi
- Spencer Spring: 19.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Prompton State Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Knob | WNW 300° | 817 m | 13.1 mi |
| Mount Ararat | NNW 334° | 803 m | 13.3 mi |
| South Knob | WNW 298° | 792 m | 12.8 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NNW 337° | 771 m | 15.2 mi |
| Elk Hill | WNW 299° | 748 m | 13.0 mi |
| East Mountain | NW 306° | 719 m | 15.1 mi |
| Nettle Hill | NNW 340° | 693 m | 17.0 mi |
| High Knob | WSW 248° | 690 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:37 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:28 | 19:58 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 15:50 | 16:35 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 21 | 22 | 30 | 42 | 54 | 62 | 67 | 65 | 58 | 47 | 36 | 26 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pleasant MT 1 W, 10 mi away.
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander8 obs
- common cowparsnip8 obs
- red trillium7 obs
- Christmas fern6 obs
- Virginia waterleaf6 obs
- yellow trout lily5 obs
- squirrel corn5 obs
- bloodroot5 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/892117423
Day trips start here
- Pocono Mountains · 13 mi
- Dunmore · 20 mi
- Sterling · 20 mi
- Clarks Summit · 21 mi
- Scranton · 22 mi
- Factoryville · 23 mi
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